Business Development Executive
Euromonitor
2021-12-03 11:30:03
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job type: fulltime
Job industry: Consulting & Corporate Strategy
Job description
As a Business Development Executive you will be responsible for targeting new organizations across your territory. You will focus on Passport and Via subscriptions, identify opportunities for Consulting projects as well as supplying clients with extracts and one-off reports. You will be a highly self-motivated sales professional with a proven track record for selling in the business-to-business arena. Youll have the tenacity, drive, commercial awareness and persuasiveness to find the right contacts, understand the clients issues, and match and apply the benefits in your solution. You will often need to involve several stakeholders, both internally and externally, in different locations across the world so strong networking and organization skills as well as an understanding of corporate purchasing dynamics are a must.
This role is client facing and will potentially require some travel to meet clients across the territory.
Key responsibilities include:
* Generate sales with new clients in your designated territory
* Identify key sponsors, influencers and decision makers at target companies and ensure that you understand their roles and objectives, and that they understand the benefits and applications of using data.
* Create a sales plan on how to reach sales targets and ensure implementation of the plan
* Research a strong prospect list
* Take ownership of your personal sales targets
* Develop your new clients so they know how to use their online service
* Manage ongoing client relationships with accounts through the entire tender process and procurement
Requirements
* An outstanding personal sales track record
* Proven experience of selling to large multi-national organisations
* Excellent negotiation and communication skills
* Intelligent, able to solve problems, and react positively to change
* Tenacity, drive and resilience
* Commercial awareness
* A targets-driven approach to work
* Experience in strategic market information sales
* Self-motivated and organized
Benefits
Why work for Euromonitor?
Our values
We act with integrity
We are curious about the world
We are stronger together
We seek to empower
We find strength in diversity
International: not only do we have a very multinational workforce in each office but we are all dealing with our 15 offices worldwide on a daily basis. With 15 offices globally there are regular opportunities for international transfer.
Hardworking but sociable: our staff know how to work hard but also how to enjoy themselves! We pride ourselves on creating an appropriate work-life balance, with flexible hours and regular socialising including frequent after work meet ups, summer and Christmas parties and a whole range of sports and other groups to be involved with.
Committed to making a difference: We think that people are looking for something worthwhile in a company beyond the workplace. Our extensive Corporate Social Responsibility Programme gives each member of staff two volunteering days a year in addition to holidays. It sees us reaching out into the local community with our mentoring, group volunteering, and fundraising initiatives as well as supporting international charities through our website sales, matching staff sponsorship fundraising, and carbon offsetting all our flights, amongst many other activities.
Excellent benefits: we offer highly competitive salaries, enhanced healthcare and pensions, plus generous holiday allowances and in many offices a Core Hours policy allowing flexible start and finish times to each day.
Opportunities to grow: we offer extensive training and development opportunities at all levels. The vast majority of our managers and directors have been promoted from within and many have moved across departments as well as upwards. We pride ourselves on identifying and rewarding talent.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:Euromonitor International does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.