Business Developer SLED

at  STAPLES INC

Staples is business to business. You’re what binds us together.
Hunts within defined territory to pursue two main responsibilities: penetration of existing accounts by winning net new sites. Responsible for ramping and onboarding accounts to further expand our customer base. It is a high velocity sales position that leverages a prioritized action list to drive engagement activities and then manages their opportunities through the sales funnel. Requires strong collaboration with Account Management to build strategies for site acquisition; new site targets will be passed by Sales Ops and occasionally selected in partnership with Account Management. Expected to travel to meet clients face to face & effectively use remote methods (phone/internet) to maintain and grow sales relationships within owned geographies.

WHAT’S NEEDED- BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• 1-3 years of successful sales experience or success as a Staples B2B Sales Associate
• 1-3 years experience in PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook

WHAT’S NEEDED- PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Knowledge of Customer Relationship Management tool (CRM)

• Consistently meets activity goals and daily metrics with a hunter mindset/approach - outbound dials, sell time, live contacts, and created opportunities
• Effectively partner with Account Management to determine site hunting strategy within existing accounts
• Effectively partner with GPO FSDs to understand contractual complexity and refine net new logo strategy within the Complex segment
• Travel to meet clients face to face & walk the halls of new sites to maintain and grow sales relationships across the account hierarchy
• Develop expertise on contract & coop availability within designated geographies
• Influences on the spot pricing decisions in order to cultivate a seamless customer experience
• Manage sales funnel to close opportunities
• Effective Selling Skills: Utilizing professional selling skills, discover prospects incremental and programmatic needs, effectively communicates Staples value propositions, capabilities, products, and assortments including all categories. Capable of overcoming objections and closing the sale
• Utilize prescribed selling tools to prioritize activities and drive efficiency, as well as to document customer engagement and information (ex: Priority List, Tenfold, SFDC)
• Internal Partnerships: Effectively work with customer support/set up teams and category specialists to progress deals forward to closed won
• Implements and ramps wins driving compliance to new account/program
• Expertise of prospect industry buying process’ and ability to support product selection and standardization
• Experience in Education, State & Local beneficial but not required
• Create sticky accounts which will continue to purchase from Staples
• Executing strategies defined by Senior Leadership Team
• Integrates feedback from prospects into their sales approach
• New customer assortment and pricing
• Internal Teaming: Individual will need to communicate and work closely with Category Specialists, and Support teams
• Customer Communications: Individual is responsible to communicate with prospects daily in person and face to face in a professional manner