Business Development Executive (Cold Calling)

About the role

A confident, target-driven female Business Development Executive is sought to generate business through cold calling and turn leads into qualified opportunities in both the US market and the local market. The role focuses on making calls: starting conversations, explaining services, negotiating and turning prospects into meetings and clients. It is a full-time hybrid position based in Paragon, Lahore.

Key responsibilities

• Make daily cold calls to prospects in the US and local markets.
• Convert leads into qualified opportunities, meetings and paying clients through calls.
• Explain services clearly to business owners and decision-makers.
• Handle objections and negotiate terms over calls to move deals toward closing.
• Follow up consistently and keep call and lead records updated in the CRM.
• Meet targets for calls, meetings booked and conversions.
• Generate local leads using Google Maps, business directories and other strategies; extract and filter US prospect data with tools such as Apollo.io (basic knowledge required).

Required profile

• 6 months to 1 year of experience in cold calling, telesales, B2B sales or business development.
• Excellent spoken English with a clear, professional accent and a confident phone presence.
• Strong negotiation and objection-handling skills.
• Knowledge of how to generate leads locally; basic understanding of CRMs and sales pipelines.
• Organized, proactive and willing to work toward targets.
• Willingness to work from the Paragon office under a hybrid schedule, with flexible timings for US calls when needed.
• Nice to have: experience with IT services, software, AI or SaaS, and customer success, support, onboarding or account management.

Required skills

• Lead generation tools: Apollo.io, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo, Lusha, Hunter.io, Seamless.AI
• Calling and sales software: Aircall, Dialpad, RingCentral, JustCall, Outreach
• CRMs: HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive, Close, Freshsales

What we offer

• Work with US and local clients in the technology industry.
• Training, tools and mentorship to grow calling and negotiation skills.
• A collaborative team with room for professional growth.