Sales & Business Development Representative
Wolters Kluwer · Remote (Remote US)
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About the role
Location: Remote role, candidate can be located anywhere in the U.S. Preferred candidate will be located in EST or CST time zones.
Travel: Approximately 10% travel on an annual basis
Role: Full Time
Join our global Sales & Business Development organization in a dedicated outbound role, creating qualified enterprise pipeline within an agreed territory and set of target accounts.
You will combine account research, consistent prospecting and consultative discovery to engage senior stakeholders, uncover meaningful business challenges and develop opportunities with clear commercial potential. Success requires both relevant, high-quality engagement and sustained outbound activity.
Working closely with Enterprise Account Managers and regional sales leadership, you will own prospecting, initial discovery and qualification to an agreed handover. Account Managers retain ownership of the wider account relationship and subsequent sales cycle.
Plan and execute enterprise outreach
Agree target accounts and priorities with Account Managers and regional sales leadership, aligning outreach with account ownership, existing relationships and territory plans.
Research account fit, industry priorities, organizational changes and business triggers to build focused prospecting plans.
Map relevant decision-makers and influencers, developing account-specific messaging that connects their priorities to the business problems Enablon helps address.
Execute consistent outbound prospecting across phone, email and social channels, meeting agreed activity standards and following up with discipline.
Discover, qualify and hand over opportunities
Lead structured discovery to understand the business problem, its impact, relevant scope and the prospect’s willingness to explore a solution.
Test whether there is a credible opportunity, document qualification evidence and agree a meaningful next step with the prospect.
Engage Account Managers and, where needed, Pre-Sales at the appropriate point to support commercial or technical discovery.
Deliver a coordinated handover with documented business challenges, stakeholders, scope and agreed next steps; confirm Account Manager acceptance and preserve customer continuity.
Achieve agreed Qualified Sales Opportunity (QSO) and qualified pipeline targets, taking accountability for the quality of the opportunities you create.
Operate with commercial discipline
Record outbound activity, discovery findings and next steps accurately and promptly in Salesforce against the relevant leads, contacts, accounts and opportunities.
Use activity, engagement and conversion data to improve targeting, messaging and execution.
Collaborate with Sales, Marketing and Product Marketing on account insight and outbound campaigns, sharing customer feedback and market intelligence.
Participate actively in training, coaching and team collaboration, applying feedback to improve performance.
Essential
5+ years experience in B2B sales or business development, with demonstrable success in outbound prospecting and generating qualified new business opportunities.
The ability to research complex organizations, prioritize accounts and translate insight into relevant outreach.
Confidence engaging senior business stakeholders, supported by strong written communication, active listening and thoughtful questioning.
Experience conducting discovery conversations and assessing whether a business need merits further sales engagement.
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