Lead Sales Specialist

Lakeshore Sport & Fitness is Chicago’s #1 destination for sport, fitness, and fun. We are a diverse community of like-minded people who participate in social, instructional, and competitive sporting activities; and who seek to improve and enhance our lives by achieving levels of personal fitness.

We are seeking a Lead SalesSpecialist for a high‑growth opportunity to expand our sales department. This role will be identifying lead opportunities for all of Lakeshore Sport & Fitness’s services at our downtown location. The Lead SalesSpecialist is responsible for outbound business‑to‑business (B2B) prospecting, qualifying, and scheduling meetings between our customers and sales team.

Responsibilities

Develop new business via the telephone and mass communications to introduce Lakeshore Sport & Fitness’s solutions and identify decision‑makers within specific target markets; proactively contact B2B prospects

Conduct a needs analysis to identify the prospect’s pain points and determine how Lakeshore Sport & Fitness’s solutions will speak to those needs

Build and cultivate prospect relationships in order to move opportunities through the sales funnel

Enter and update lead data into our CRM database

Collaborate with the sales team on new and projective lead pipeline activity weekly

Conduct investigative research on target companies and different verticals

Deliver weekly reports on call activity, lead, and opportunity generation

Qualifications

2+ years of lead generation, sales prospecting, or sales experience preferred; if you are motivated to start a new sales career we’d like to speak with you too!

Must have exceptional phone communication skills, with a thick skin – working with a sense of urgency

Task‑oriented, taking great notes, and efficiently entering data into our CRM database

Initiative, organization, team skills, and a desire to learn are critical and could make or break this opportunity

We are an equal‑opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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