Job Description – Sales Director The primary role of the Sales Director at Spherix Global Insights is to lead the sales strategy for identified franchises and accounts and to develop long-term relationships with clients that result in the achievement of target revenues. The Sales Director reports to the Chief Revenue Officer. Key Responsibilities- Successfully meet or exceed assigned quota
- Generate market awareness through conferences and events
- Curate leads and present capabilities to generate opportunities
- Work with Insights leads to close opportunities
- Work with Insights team to ensure capabilities decks are tailored to unique client need
- Work with marketing and Franchise Heads to generate marketing and sales enablement materials
- Forms partnership with data and research organization to ensure products are meeting needs of customer
- Regularly engages clients/prospects to understand market demands and provides client feedback on product messaging to stakeholders
- Develop and execute a sales strategy for each target client
- Seek and drive new business opportunities within new accounts
- Secure and participate in client meetings with Franchise Heads
- Maintain the sales pipeline in the company’s CRM system, HubSpot for accounts
- Represent Spherix at designated meetings (clinical and industry)
Education & Experience - Demonstrated ability to lead account management
- 10+ years experience selling into pharma, quant data and primary research experience preferred
- Understands syndicated market research landscape
- Experience delivering on a book of business of $5-10M or higher
- Proven business acumen and track record in business/client development
- Experience developing an effective sales strategy at the client level
- Proven record of building productive business relationships
- Demonstrated ability to work without routine supervision and consistent track record of delivering against objectives/sales targets
- Exceptional organization and presentation skills necessary
- Highly engaging and collaborative working style
What You Bring: - You are a hardworking, self-starter who is comfortable working independently and without routine management supervision
- You enjoy opening the doors to new business
- You enjoy making progress towards your goals and possess an instinctively entrepreneurial business acumen
- You embrace change and innovation
- You value integrity
- You seek a working environment populated by dynamic professionals with a team-oriented approach to building a best-in-class insights business
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