Sales Specialist - Data & Feeds

As a Sales Specialist within the Data & Feeds team in Continental Europe, you will be responsible for identifying new prospects and opportunities, meeting and exceeding sales targets, and encouraging contract renewals. The role focuses on commercializing next-generation data and software solutions for financial market participants, including market data feeds, reference data, analytics, pricing services, and data management. You will drive growth by providing customer insights, leading the sales process, and delivering product demonstrations.

Must Have

• Provide in-depth customer and market insights to identify new business opportunities.
• Drive the sales process and structure deals.
• Meet and exceed sales targets.
• Proactively identify pipeline opportunities.
• Deliver customer demonstrations of specific propositions.
• Awareness of competitors' offerings and strategies.
• Strong business and commercial strategy sense.
• Ability to encourage contract renewals.

Good to Have

• German language skills
• French language skills

Perks & Benefits

• Flexible work environment (3 days from office and 2 days from home)
• International team and global organization
• Dynamic, innovative company
• Two extra days off for voluntary jobs
• Healthcare
• Retirement planning
• Wellbeing initiatives

WE ARE LOOKING FOR A NEW TEAM MEMBER! JOIN US!

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This is a 1 year fixed term contract.

Our successful, dynamic Team in Continental Europe has an opened a new sales position in Switzerland to join us!

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As a Sales Specialist within the Data & Feeds team you will seek new prospects and opportunities with new and existing customers. Highly motivated and engaged, you meet and exceed targets by leading with customer value, gaining trust with your natural interpersonal skills and have an in-depth proposition knowledge. You know how to structure deals and how to leverage market and business sense to outsell the competition. With a close eye on the sales pipeline, you will identify more opportunities daily, and you will encourage customers to renew their contracts with us.

The role within our international, market leading Data & Feeds team, will focus on commercializing the next generation of data and software solutions into our main Customer Accounts (sell-side as well as buy side financial market participants) in Continental Europe.

Some of the solutions we promote:

• Market data feeds (Real-time data solutions | LSEG)
• Reference data, analytics, and pricing services (Reference data and pricing services | LSEG)
• Data management and delivery (Market data management and delivery | LSEG)

What you'll be doing:

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As Sales Specialist in our Data & Feeds Solutions team will be accountable for structuring and closing deals to drive growth by:

• Providing in-depth customer and market insights, to identify new business opportunities and drive the sales process
• Driving our 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 sense for business and commercial strategy
• Proactively identifying pipeline opportunities
• Delivering customer demonstrations of their specific propositions

What you'll bring:

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• LSEG offers flexible work environment (3 days from office and 2 days from home)
• International Team - our Data & Feeds team is located in various European locations, with various nationalities and Global organisation offices and clients across Europe
• A dynamic, innovative company (read more about our recent partnership with Microsoft for next-generation data and analytics and cloud infrastructure solutions: https://www.lseg.com/en/media-centre/press-releases/2022/lseg-and-microsoft-launch-strategic-partnership)
• LSEG is committed to support local charities and offering all employees two extra days off for voluntary jobs
• Language skills: English (required), German and/or French (desired)

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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 purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

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.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. 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.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.