About the Role
As a Sales Specialist on the Data & Feeds team, you will seek new prospects and opportunities with new and existing customers. You will meet and exceed targets by leading with customer value, winning trust with your natural communication skills, and possessing in-depth proposition knowledge. You will structure deals, leverage market and business sense to outsell the competition, monitor the sales pipeline, identify daily opportunities, and encourage customer contract renewals.
Responsibilities
- Structuring and closing deals to drive growth
- Providing in-depth customer and market insights to identify new business opportunities and drive the sales process
- Driving the thought-leadership agenda by supporting community building
- Being aware of all aspects of key competitors' offering, their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and developing strategies to be first on the market
- Having a strong eye for business and commercial strategy
- Proactively identifying pipeline opportunities
- Delivering customer demonstrations of their specific propositions
Requirements
- Strong listening and questioning skills
- Self-motivated and reliant, highly driven
- Ability to tackle client's detailed requirements
- Familiarity with the workflow of customers in dealing with different departments such as Trading, Capital Markets, Risk, Compliance, Middle & Back office, Funds, Technology, Reporting etc.
- 3-5 years of industry, sales or market experience
- Experience in a quota bearing sales environment
- Demonstrate great understanding of the financial markets and interest for technologies
- Passion for sales with hunting approach
- Focus on results
- Ability to build strong & productive relationships with clients at all levels
- Persuasive written and verbal presentation skills
- Familiarity with the LSEG Data & Feeds Services is desirable
Skills
- Communication skills
- Proposition knowledge
- Deal structuring
- Market sense
- Business sense
- Sales pipeline management
- Customer relationship management
- Financial markets understanding
- Technology interest
- Sales
- Presentation skills
Location
- London
Work Type
- Flexible work environment (from office and from home)
Experience Level
- Senior Associate
- 3-5 years of industry, sales or market experience
Benefits
- Flexible work environment
- International Team
- Dynamic, innovative company
- Two extra days off for voluntary jobs
- Healthcare
- Retirement planning
- Paid volunteering days
- Wellbeing initiatives
About the Company
- LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider.
- Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.
- Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day.
- We are part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries.
- We value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.
- We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives.
- Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence.
- Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.
Equal Opportunity
- We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
- This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law.
- Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.
