Director - Sales Manager

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Employer: Moody’s Analytics, Inc.

Title: Director, Sales Manager

Location: 120 N LaSalle St, Chicago, IL 60602

Duties: Manage, direct, and lead a team of sales professionals across the organization. Effectively run meetings with customers and sales executives. Lead review of team forecast, including tracking pipeline and renewals. Oversee strategic business development plan for a defined territory of strategic customers. Implement best practices in sales techniques to achieve annual sales target. Establish customer outreach strategy, including setting and ensuring annual targets for face-to-face meetings and sales goals are met. Maintain active relationships with customers and intermediaries and apply negotiation and influencing skills. Achieve business objectives, applying strong leadership and management skills. Identify business opportunities for new product and feature development through market and client exposure. Designate pilot customers for new products that are being developed and ensure customer involvement in the product development. Partner with marketing, events, and product strategy teams to drive events and sales campaigns. Domestic travel required approximately 30-40% of the time. Destination and frequency impossible to predict.

Requirements: Requires a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Business Administration, Communications, or a closely related quantitative field plus at least one (1) year of experience as an Accounts Manager, Sales Specialist, or in a related position working in direct business-to-business sales within the financial services industry. Alternatively, employer will accept two (2) additional years of related work experience in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree. Must have experience with the following: applying knowledge of the global corporate industry, including market dynamics and customers’ business drivers; presenting high-level information and detailed demonstrations of products and services and helping customers construct and interpret client workflows, including creating benchmark analysis, determining comparability of companies, and generating documentation; conducting all aspects of presales activity with clients; conducting pipeline management from initial lead to close; establishing, developing, and maintaining key relationships within accounts, including senior executives, both internally and externally; understanding client needs and solutions to generate sales and renew existing accounts; and applying knowledge of SAAS-based cloud services, including, AWS or Elastic. Domestic travel required approximately 30-40% of the time. Destination and frequency impossible to predict.

For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is $127,962 to $210,700/yr, depending on factors such as experience, education, level, skills, and location. This range is based on a full-time position. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for incentive compensation. Moody’s also offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, parental leave, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and tuition reimbursement.

To apply, please submit resume through careers.moodys.com or via e-mail at [email protected]. Please refer to Job Ref. 13146.

For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is $127,962 to $210,700, depending on factors such as experience, education, level, skills, and location. This range is based on a full-time position. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for incentive compensation. Moody’s also offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, parental leave, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and tuition reimbursement.

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender, age, religion or creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital or familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Moody’s also provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or based on a sincerely held religious belief in accordance with applicable laws. If you need to inquire about a reasonable accommodation, or need assistance with completing the application process, please email [email protected] . This contact information is for accommodation requests only, and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications

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