Morningstar Development Program - Sales Track

The Program:

At Morningstar, we want people who are smart, creative, hard-working, curious, and passionate about their work. We hire all majors, including liberal arts, as we appreciate the different perspectives they bring to our company. We built the Morningstar Development Program to prepare recent college graduates for successful, long-term careers here at Morningstar. Throughout this two-year program, you will be placed in a cohort where you’ll receive ongoing career development, networking, mentoring, training opportunities, apprenticeship program opportunities, and exposure to different areas of the business to help you succeed at Morningstar.

We are accepting applicants with less than 2 years of full-time work experience. While we look for individuals who have an interest in investing, we welcome all fields of study. All positions are based in our Chicago office. This posting is for the Sales track.

The Group:
Morningstar`s Business Development & Sales group is responsible for helping financial professionals build their businesses and provide better outcomes for investors.

About the Role:

In the Sales Development Representative role, you will represent Morningstar`s software, tools, or services to the appropriate individual, advisor, or institutional clients. Our SDRs are the first point of contact for the vast majority of our new business opportunities. As an SDR, you’ll run a high volume of outreach, make connections with decision makers at companies that fit our ideal customer profile, and generate new business opportunities for our Regional Sales team. A successful Sales Development Representative embraces challenges and change, considers themselves a people person, and has a natural curiosity to learn about others and their needs. This is a highly visible role that makes a direct and significant impact in our business, working closely with the product development, marketing, and other sales teams for the solutions you represent.

The SDR role provides boundless opportunities for both personal and professional growth. The SDR team serves as a launchpad to accelerate your sales career at Morningstar. For those driven to exceed expectations, career paths at Morningstar are endless.

This position is based in our downtown Chicago office.

Job responsibilities:

• Act as the engine of our sales team, revving up and warming up prospects to be shared with our regional sales team by responding to marketing qualified leads and/or sales sourced lead lists;

• Work with a strong sense of urgency, which translates into activity with the expectation of making 50 calls per day;

• Take a data driven approach to identifying new prospect clients based on their job function and proactively engage with them.

• Ask thorough and pointed questions, guiding potential clients through needs assessment and discovery sessions to qualify the prospect and drive new opportunities;

• Act as consultants - our clients appreciate the value of our data and software for their needs, so we take the time to understand those needs and address them head on;

• Demonstrate extensive product knowledge to our potential client base;

• Work closely with client service, sales, product, and marketing teams.

Qualifications:

• Have terrific prioritization skills - we generate a LOT of prospects for the team to work with every month, and this team knows how to identify and go after the key customers;

• Are stellar and professional communicators, both verbally and in their written works;

• Possess strong negotiation skills and can effectively advance prospects through the sales cycle;

• Are self-motivated and dedicated to succeed;

• Love to meet and exceed goals on a daily, weekly and monthly basis;

• Are team players with entrepreneurial spirits - they come up with and are willing to try new ideas to achieve greater levels of success;

• Are interested in financial markets or services, particularly investing

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree

• Fluent in English

• Sales Career focus

• A resume is required to apply. **Please be sure to include the word "Resume" in the file name of the resume you upload.

Highly Preferred:

• 1-2 years of sales experience

• Speaking additional languages such as Spanish, French, Italian, and/or German.

• Have positive, focused, goal-oriented attitudes and mentalities and can be motivated both as an individual and as part of a team

Joining Morningstar as an SDR provides boundless opportunities for both personal and professional growth. The SDR team serves as a launchpad to accelerate your sales career at Morningstar, and for those dedicated to exceed expectations, Sales career paths at Morningstar are endless. We are excited to hear from you if you are hungry, smart, persistent, and a great teammate!