Sales Specialist IV, Risk Solutions (R-19426)

Shape the Future with Dun & Bradstreet

At Dun & Bradstreet, we believe data has the power to create a better tomorrow. As a global leader in business decisioning data and analytics, we help companies worldwide grow, manage risk, and innovate. For over 180 years, businesses have trusted us to turn uncertainty into opportunity. We’re a diverse, global team that values creativity, collaboration, and bold ideas. Are you ready to make an impact and help shape what’s next? Join us! Explore opportunities at dnb.com/careers.

Essential Key Responsibilities

• Be a trusted advisor, deeply understanding the customer’s business challenges and proactively address their evolving needs, all while making a lasting impact at the highest levels of business
• New account development and/or expanding existing accounts through maintaining revenue stream through successful renewal of existing business, and cross-sell and up-sell of new opportunities in a dedicated set of D&B solutions within an established portfolio of clients
• Map Dun & Bradstreet’s solutions to customer needs, ensuring a deep understanding of how our solutions can address specific business challenges, while demonstrating subject matter expertise
• Contribute to account-specific strategy by identifying customer needs through meeting with key influencers and stakeholders across the client organization
• Demonstrate product capabilities, overcome objections and create a customer-specific buying vision
• Drive credibility by combining use case expertise with vertical experience to demonstrate compelling success stories that will help drive business outcomes for customers
• Act as a bridge between customers and product development teams, conveying feedback and insights that can inform product enhancements and innovation
• Maintain consistent and accurate data in SFDC to support territory, account planning and forecasting
• Actively participate in Account Planning, Business Reviews, Quarterly Solutions reviews as required
• This role is intended for a professional who has wide-ranging experience

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree Required
• 15+ years of relevant experience
• Master's Degree Preferred

Additional Skills and/or Certifications

• Minimum of 15 years prior experience in selling new solutions and/or upselling existing solutions to clients and generating significant revenue growth, proven by a track record in a similar environment
• Ability to rapidly assess client environments from a business process, organizational and technological perspective, and effectively prioritize opportunities for growth
• Demonstrable track record in managing complex sales and managing multiple senior stakeholders
• Highly articulate with excellent business communication (verbal and written) skills and presentation skills suitable for a global corporate environment
• Possesses excellent industry-leading sales methodology, salesforce.com, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint and MS-Word skills
• Show an ownership mindset in everything you do; be a problem solver, be curious and be inspired to take action, be proactive, seek ways to collaborate and connect with people and teams in support of driving success
• Continuous growth mindset, keep learning through social experiences and relationships with stakeholder, experts, colleagues and mentors as well as widen and broaden your competencies through structural courses and programs
• Expected to travel onsite to customers for the interest of business at least 40% of the time