Business Development Executive, Third Party Partnerships

at  Cvent

Overview:
With over 4,000 employees across 4 continents, Cvent is an exciting, fast-growing tech company that provides bespoke industry-leading software to event professionals at over 16,000 organisations around the world. Cvent is transforming meetings and events with our suite of services from – online event registration, venue selection, mobile apps, email marketing, web surveys, and targeted hotel advertising opportunities. We work with clients like Premier League, Finastra, STEP & Aberdeen Standard Investments to just name a few.
We have a rewarding and challenging Business Development Executive position in our Third Party Partnerships division for extraordinarily talented and motivated individuals who thrive in fast-paced, entrepreneurial work environments. Your main responsibilities will be demonstrating our product and negotiating and closing deals. You will carry a new-booked business quota, and will be required to demonstrate solution-selling skills and effectively manage your Sales Associate to ensure prospects turn into actual customers.

In This Role, You Will::

• Develop and call on new prospects in an effort to meet and exceed individual and department revenue expectations
• Present products and services to new corporate accounts
• Exceed established new business revenue targets for software sales
• Develop and actively pursue list of targeted Key Accounts and create individual plans of action to penetrate these accounts
• Accurately forecast sales opportunities via pipeline report
• Effectively and accurately manage personal revenue pipeline to maximize all new business opportunities
• Monitor and report sales activity within the system
• Work with Account Management team and Client Services to ensure complete customer satisfaction with the Cvent product and organization
• Ensure relationships with key decision-makers for accounts that will provide new business are continuously developed and relationships are strengthened and grown
• Perform other duties as assigned

Here’s What You Need::

• Bachelor’s degree with strong academic credentials
• Prior revenue generating sales experience, software highly desired
• Excel at developing relationships over the phone
• Ability to handle high outbound call volume with corresponding high talk time
• Must be articulate, organized, detail-oriented, and the ability to multi-task in a dynamic, fast-changing entrepreneurial environment
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Must be able to integrate knowledge across disciplines to include cold calling, consultative selling, product demonstrations, closing contracts, operation/process flow, and product function
• Strong sense of initiative and personal leadership demonstrating the ability to function independently, but must also be able to contribute to team initiatives
• Strong business acumen, ethics and high integrity
• Proficient using general office software applications
• Experience using sales automation products such as Salesforce.com and web collaboration tools like WebEx
• Must be willing to travel for up to 20% of the time
• Must be comfortable speaking in front of large audiences

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• Develop and call on new prospects in an effort to meet and exceed individual and department revenue expectations
• Present products and services to new corporate accounts
• Exceed established new business revenue targets for software sales
• Develop and actively pursue list of targeted Key Accounts and create individual plans of action to penetrate these accounts
• Accurately forecast sales opportunities via pipeline report
• Effectively and accurately manage personal revenue pipeline to maximize all new business opportunities
• Monitor and report sales activity within the system
• Work with Account Management team and Client Services to ensure complete customer satisfaction with the Cvent product and organization
• Ensure relationships with key decision-makers for accounts that will provide new business are continuously developed and relationships are strengthened and grown
• Perform other duties as assigne