Sales Director

16 Minutes ago • 10 Years +
Sales

Job Description

The Sales Director will lead the FinTech vertical, driving a Sales team focused on executing value creation strategies and continually supporting client growth. This role involves reporting to the CRO/CBO, leading Sales Associates for key fintech accounts, and driving a commercial agenda. Key responsibilities include developing client relationships, owning client strategy, and collaborating with internal subject matter experts to present TransUnion’s value proposition. The position requires understanding market dynamics and clients’ critical business issues to foster insight-focused discussions for growth and achieve annual targets.
Good To Have:
  • MBA
  • Ability to effectively develop relationships, engage, advise, and communicate with FinTech sectors heads demonstrating real-time insight, flexibility, and sound judgment
  • Independence, initiative
  • Business maturity
  • Strong leadership and listening skills
  • Ability to analyze input from customers, partners, TransUnion associates, market and environmental trends
  • Program management
  • Mentoring other associates on sales techniques, tools and best practices
Must Have:
  • Responsible for leading the FinTech vertical
  • Understanding of clients’ critical business issues and transforming this understanding into insight focused engagements
  • Lead a team of Sales Associates across FinTech driving strategic direction, coaching, and execution goals
  • Responsible for achieving annual targets for his/her portfolio
  • Understand market landscape and needs, and determine required solution capabilities
  • Develop engagement plan and pursue strategic engagements with executives across portfolio
  • Build partnership relationship across portfolio, pursuing consultative approach
  • Lead business pipeline development, coordinating internal resources for identified opportunities
  • Advice on and support strategic sales initiatives
  • Attend relevant industry events
  • Establish accountabilities and goals with measures for success
  • Build and maintain senior relationships across portfolio
  • Engages subject matter experts to collaboratively identify, sell, close and manage prospects

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What We'll Bring:

The Sales Director role will lead the FinTech vertical driving a Sales team focused on executing value creation strategies and continually supporting our clients’ growth trajectory. This role reports to the CRO / CBO and leads a team of Sales Associates covering key accounts across fintech sector. The role is tasked with driving a commercial agenda, developing client relationships across all levels of the organization, owning and having accountability for client strategy, and working in conjunction with internal subject matter experts (including Consulting and Analytics) in order to provide a comprehensive view of TU’s value proposition.

This position requires an understanding of market dynamics and clients’ critical business issues in order to drive insight focused discussions supporting clients’ growth journey.

What You'll Bring:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics or related field with 10 or more years of management/ leadership experience in Sales / Strategy / Consulting. MBA preferred
  • Ability to effectively develop relationships, engage, advice, and communicate with FinTech sectors heads demonstrating real-time insight, flexibility, and sound judgment
  • Strong analytical and insight-driven problem-solving skills with the ability to pursue consultative client engagements to drive business growth. Independence, initiative, business acumen, and excellent verbal, story-telling written communication, and negotiation skills
  • Business maturity, and strong leadership and listening skills with the ability to analyze input from customers, partners, TransUnion associates, market and environmental trends, to identify and clearly articulate needs and opportunities for growth
  • Program management, with the ability to own development of business pipeline and effectively coordinate internal resources and teams to maximize business conversion
  • Sound working knowledge of software applications such as Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint with exceptional presentation skills
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills

Impact You'll Make:

  • Responsible for leading the FinTech vertical
  • Understanding of clients’ critical business issues and transforming this understanding into insight focused engagements
  • Lead a team of Sales Associates across FinTech driving strategic direction, coaching, and execution goals
  • Excellent leadership, problem solving/decision making and communication skills including a perfect command of English and Spanish.
  • Responsible for achieving annual targets for his/her portfolio
  • Understand market landscape and needs, and determine required solution capabilities
  • Develop engagement plan and pursue strategic engagements with executives across portfolio with focus on their consumer engagement, strategy, and goals
  • Build partnership relationship across portfolio, pursuing consultative approach and positioning TransUnion as a trusted partner to help clients achieve their goals
  • Lead business pipeline development, coordinating internal resources for identified opportunities to maximize business conversion ratio
  • Advice on and support strategic sales initiatives
  • Attend relevant industry events
  • Establish accountabilities and goals with measures for success. Builds development plans for associates to assist in career planning.
  • Build and maintain senior relationships across portfolio, including understanding of their purchasing criteria.
  • Engages subject matter experts to collaboratively identify, sell, close and manage prospects.
  • Mentors other associates on sales techniques, tools and best practices.

Desired Outcomes

Selling Strategy:

  • Develop and implement a sales strategy that sets expectations for short and long-term growth objectives on key accounts.
  • Structure the Sales team with a focus on driving outsized growth opportunities.
  • Set clear and challenging goals, supporting the organization to achieve its financial commitments and internal forecasting processes.
  • Implement key sales performance indicators to effectively manage the sales team; tenacious and accountable for driving the development of pipeline and achieving targets

Client and Associate Relationships:

  • Create a sense of purpose/meaning that drives engaged associates
  • A” visible leader” with gravitas; comfortable with senior audiences
  • Naturally connects and builds strong and meaningful relationships one on one with key stakeholders.
  • Demonstrates strong emotional and inclusive intelligence and has the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively.

Leading Talent:

  • Attract, retain, and develop key talent to achieve our long-term objectives through an honest assessment of sales capabilities in a dynamic marketplace.
  • A leader who is self-aware and drives an organization’s performance with an attitude of continuous improvement.

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

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