Sales Specialist, D&B Finance Solutions, Technology Vertical
Job Summary
Job Description
Dun & Bradstreet is seeking a Sales Specialist for its Technology Vertical. This role focuses on cultivating customer relationships, understanding their business challenges, and identifying how D&B's data-driven solutions can provide value. The Specialist will act as a trusted advisor, driving new account development and expanding existing accounts through renewals, cross-selling, and up-selling. Key responsibilities include mapping D&B solutions to customer needs, contributing to account strategies, demonstrating product capabilities, and acting as a liaison between customers and product development teams. The role requires maintaining accurate data in Salesforce and participating in account planning and reviews. A Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 12 years of sales experience in a similar environment are required. The ideal candidate can rapidly assess client environments, manage complex sales, and has excellent communication and presentation skills, along with proficiency in Salesforce, MS-Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. A strong ownership mindset, problem-solving skills, curiosity, and a continuous growth mindset are essential. The role also requires travel to customers up to 40% of the time.
Must have:
- Bachelor's Degree
- 12+ years of sales experience
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Salesforce, MS-Excel, PowerPoint, Word proficiency
- Ownership mindset and problem-solving skills
Good to have:
- Experience in selling new solutions or upselling existing ones
- Ability to assess client environments
- Proven track record in managing complex sales
- Vertical experience in technology
Perks:
- Generous paid time off
- 100% paid parental leave
- Paid sick time
- Education assistance and training resources
- Paid volunteer days and donation matching
- Competitive 401k with company matching
- Health & wellness benefits
- Medical, dental & vision insurance
5 skills required
Job Details
Why We Work at Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet unlocks the power of data through analytics, creating a better tomorrow. Each day, we are finding new ways to strengthen our award-winning culture and accelerate creativity, innovation and growth. Our 6,000+ global team members are passionate about what we do. We are dedicated to helping clients turn uncertainty into confidence, risk into opportunity and potential into prosperity. Bold and diverse thinkers are always welcome. Come join us! Learn more at dnb.com/careers.
The Specialist III is responsible for cultivating customer relationships, gaining a deep understanding of their business challenges and determining where D&B can provide value. This role requires a deep understanding of Dun & Bradstreet’s product offerings and the specific business concerns facing our customers.
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)
- Minimum of 12 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
This role is commission eligible.
Benefits We Offer
· Generous paid time off in your first year, increasing with tenure.
· Up to 16 weeks 100% paid parental leave after one year of employment.
· Paid sick time to care for yourself or family members.
· Education assistance and extensive training resources.
· Do Good Program: Paid volunteer days & donation matching.
· Competitive 401k with company matching.
· Health & wellness benefits, including discounted Wellhub membership rates.
· Medical, dental & vision insurance for you, spouse/partner & dependents.
· Learn more about our benefits: http://bit.ly/41Yyc3d.
Pay Transparency
Dun & Bradstreet is an equal employment opportunity employer and believes in honesty and transparency in the employment hiring process, including pay transparency. Accordingly, listed on this posting is a good faith reasonable estimate of the salary range and other compensation in the job posting, as of the date of this posting. Actual compensation decisions for base salary and other compensation will be dependent upon a wide range of factors including but not limited to: an individual’s skill sets, experience, qualification, training, education, location, and any other legally permissible factors. Successful applicants will also be eligible for D&B’s generous benefit package, outlined above.
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