Responsible for new sale of Westlaw, Practical Law, Concourse, and other legal solution and workflow tools to prospective customer base of in-house legal, intellectual property, and compliance departments of corporations.
Candidate must reside in sales territory. DC or Pittsburgh are the preferred locations.
Outcomes:
- Meet or exceed new sales quota of Westlaw, Practical Law, and other legal solutions tools and products
- Demonstrate, sell and build pipeline across the whole product bag
- Conduct face-to-face appointments and meetings:
o 7 per week with new customers
o 4 per week with existing customers
- Meet and exceed monthly quota expectations consistently
- Maintain a pipeline of at least 3x quota
- Develop and leverage peer and team networks
- Update, maintain, and manage salesforce.com on an ongoing and consistent basis
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Competencies – Skills:
- New business mining, prospecting and cold calling skills: develop a high volume of new business opportunities, including skillful and consistent prospecting, cold-calling, sales pitch, and overall business development acumen.
- Sales Planning: Understand opportunity within assigned territory and execute sales plan to capture growth
- New Customer Sales: Drive Westlaw, Practical Law, and solutions sales to new customers
- Client Relationships: Leverage knowledge of legal industry and opportunities to build trust and respect with prospective customers
- Sales Skills: Ability to facilitate shorter-term transactional sales utilizing consultative selling skills coupled with the ability to navigate a long and complex software and solutions sales cycle
- Consultative Selling Skills: listen, ask probing questions to uncover customer needs, and quickly gain trust and credibility
- Business Acumen: strong understanding of our customers' business
- Effective sales presentation skills: engage in two-way dialogue to effectively tie value proposition back to customer needs
- Forecasting Skills: ability to forecast with 95% accuracy
- Team Communication: collaborate and communicate regularly and effectively within team and across the organization.
- Relationship and Influencing Skills: ability to build relationships with, and influence all levels within an organization, including senior management.
Competencies – Culture:
- Positive attitude: enthusiasm, high energy, passion, curiosity. Flexible and open and adaptable to change
- Commitment to People: professional, courteous, respectful and friendly
- Collaboration/Partnership: team oriented, generous with sharing best practices and feedback
- Customer first: customer-centric mentality
- Integrity: operates honestly and with high standard of ethics
- Delivering results: focused, organized, and able to take initiative, motivated, self-starter
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Qualifications:
- Minimum of 4-5 years direct field sales experience (sales experience in the corporate sector preferred) with exemplary track record of sales quota overachievement
- 4-year college degree required, Law degree or MBA preferred
- Able to work from home office and travel to customer locations
- Must have competency and established experience using salesforce.com
- Job will require minimum of 50% travel per month
- Must exhibit a passion for sales, customer service, and the legal industry
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