Sales Specialist II, Risk Solutions (R-19512)

The Specialist II 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

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree (Required)
• Minimum of eight (8) 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