Business Development Executive

We are looking for sharp, dynamic professionals who are searching for an intellectually rewarding sales challenge to join our team. This role is based in our Chicago office, working with our Corporate Services & Payment territory in North America.

As a Business Development executive, you will be responsible for creating new partnerships with corporations across the Services & Payments industries. You will be a highly self-motivated sales professional with a proven track record for selling in the business-to-business arena. You’ll have the tenacity, drive, commercial awareness and persuasiveness to find the right contacts, understand the client’s issues, and match & 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
• Evaluate territory potential and prospect new accounts
• Create a sales plan on how to reach sales targets and ensure implementation of the plan
• Develop and foster new relationships through high levels activities
• Conduct effective presentations
• Proposal writing and winning new clients
• Maintain effective internal communication
• Pipeline balance and management
• Achieving developmental benchmarks

Requirements

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 strong targets-driven approach to work
• Knowledge or interest in international markets and market research
• 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 16 offices worldwide on a daily basis. With 16 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, healthcare insurance, food vouchers, saving fund, 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.

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