Sales Executive, Advisory - Texas/Midwest

Job Description

• This role is 100% remote. Candidates must live in the Midwest - preferably in Texas.
• Proactively looks to engage the broader account plan and provide awareness to account managers of Advisory opportunities.
• Contributes to the development of strategy for Human Factors Advisory
• Advisory services by providing input on customer needs, pain points, trends to service manager.
• Maintains ongoing plan to prioritize portfolio of accounts and maintain relationships throughout the year.
• Quickly builds trust and engages with customers to identify customer needs (e.g. integrating and understanding the opportunities surrounding Human Factors).
• Collaborates with customer personnel to craft customized Advisory service solutions and deliver value.
• Uses technical credibility to build relationships with buyers and centers of influence, in support of Global leadership
• Communicates value proposition of Human Factors to clients based on highly technical knowledge.
• Serves as main point of client contact for specialty services throughout sales cycle.
• Maintains knowledge base around specialized services to anticipate and react to disruption within focus area (e.g. new threats within cybersecurity) and proactively address customer needs.
• Helps the account managers to make proposals and closings in the field for Human Factors service sales as directed by Sales leaders
• Actions on opportunities to sell specialty Advisory services.
• Supports discovery and opportunity identification for assigned specialty services.
• Works closely with account managers to seamlessly work with customers throughout the sales cycle.
• Serves as primary point of contact for specialty Advisory services, responsible for articulating value proposition and managing client interactions.
• Brings in additional technical resources (e.g., engineers) when needed to support sales opportunities.
• Provides input to account owner during account planning process on potential growth opportunities within Human Factors space
• Makes connections and builds trusted advisor status with relevant account owners.
• Supports smooth hand-off of customer to implementation teams or E&A customer success post-sale.
• Provides input to account owner during account planning process on potential growth opportunities within assigned solution area.
• Makes connections and builds trusted advisor status with relevant account owners.
• Supports smooth hand-off of customer to implementation teams or E&A customer success post-sale.
• Total Rewards: The target annual pay range for this position is $113,750 - $148,750 which includes a base salary of $65,000. - $85,000. and 100% on target performance. Members of the sales function are eligible to participate in the UL Solutions Sales Incentive Plan. The annual target incentive for this position is 75% of the base salary, paid quarterly, and is contingent upon performance.
• Employees are eligible for health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental & financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country, for the relevant position level. We also provide employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours). Internal applicants with questions related to the Total Rewards for this position should submit a ticket via askHR for more insights. Plans sales strategy and maintains ongoing plan to prioritize portfolio of accounts and maintain relationships throughout the year.

Qualifications

• Bachelors and/or graduate degree in software engineering or related field.
• 2-4 years of related sales experience.
• Deep knowledge of Human Factors space
• Proven ability to meet and exceed sales targets.
• Business acumen and deep understanding of business sales processes.
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook), and CRM software.
• Must live in Midwest - Texas preferred