Business Development Representative
Role Overview
The Business Development Representative builds pipeline for Account Executives as Pemo expands its outbound sales activity.
The role reports to the BD Team Lead and focuses on qualified meetings that lead to new customers, activation, and revenue.
The team provides weekly call reviews and coaching; top performers may progress to an Account Executive role.
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About Pemo
Pemo is a spend management platform for SMEs across MENA, headquartered in DIFC, Dubai.
Its platform combines corporate cards, expense automation, bill pay, and accounting integrations.
The role
The Business Development Representative builds pipeline for Account Executives as Pemo expands its outbound sales activity.
The role reports to the BD Team Lead and focuses on qualified meetings that lead to new customers, activation, and revenue.
The team provides weekly call reviews and coaching; top performers may progress to an Account Executive role.
What you will do
- Book qualified meetings against monthly targets and focus on meeting quality and resulting revenue.
- Run high-volume outbound through cold calls, email sequences, LinkedIn, and in-person meetings.
- Respond to inbound leads within minutes and qualify them against the ideal customer profile.
- Research target accounts and personalize outreach for founders and finance teams.
- Record every touch in HubSpot and give Account Executives useful prospect notes.
- Test messaging with Marketing and improve sequences based on replies.
Must have
- At least 1 year in SDR, BDR, inside sales, or another target-driven customer-facing role, with a target achieved; exceptional graduates who demonstrate drive are also considered.
- Comfort with high-volume cold calling and handling rejection.
- Excellent spoken and written English, including persuasive short outreach writing.
- Organized, consistent habits, accurate activity tracking, and ownership of targets.
- Genuine curiosity about how businesses manage money.
Nice to have
- Additional widely spoken UAE languages, including Arabic, Hindi/Urdu, Tagalog, or Russian.
- UAE or wider MENA prospecting experience.
- HubSpot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, or similar tools.
- Clay, data enrichment tools, or appropriate use of AI to improve human-written outreach.
- Exposure to B2B SaaS, fintech, or payments.
- Ambition to progress to an Account Executive role.
Compensation
- Competitive base pay and uncapped variable compensation tied to meetings and generated pipeline, paid in AED.
Benefits
- Health insurance for the employee and dependants.
- Coaching, weekly call reviews, and training.
- Potential promotion path to Account Executive.
Workplace
- Hybrid working from DIFC, Dubai, with flexible hours.
Hiring process
- The hiring process includes an introductory conversation, CRO conversation, live mock cold-call and written-outreach exercise, final CEO conversation, and offer.
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