Business Development Representative

6 days ago


New York, New York, United States News Corp Full time
About Our Organization

Dow Jones is a global leader in providing news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations worldwide across multiple formats. With a rich history spanning over 130 years, we have established ourselves as a trusted source of unrivaled quality content. Our portfolio includes prestigious brands such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, and Financial News, among others.

About the Team

Our B2B and Operations team provides services, solutions, and support to multiple customers, including financial institutions, corporations, universities, government agencies, executives, and business professionals. We strive to deliver exceptional value to our clients through our expertise and innovative solutions.

About the Role

The New Business Development Representative plays a critical role in driving new business growth through prospecting, cold-calling, and client-calls. You will be responsible for nurturing leads, identifying new business opportunities, and developing targeted campaigns to contact prospects via telephone, email, and social media. Using a consultative sales approach, you will understand the clients' needs and deliver an initial value proposition of Dow Jones products to generate interest.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Meet new business targets by producing new streams of Dow Jones revenue through sales of products and services to new to company prospects.
  • Identify prospects by completing market analysis to identify good potential new to company target organizations, plus the roles and individuals to be prospected.
  • Prospect by contacting the targets identified, quickly qualifying genuine opportunities and moving them to the next stage of the sales process, or quickly moving on in cases where no worthwhile opportunity exists.
  • Analyze opportunities by understanding the business issues affecting targeted industry sectors and specific prospects, then ensuring this knowledge is the foundation for our communications with prospects.
  • Product knowledge by expressing the value proposition and benefits of the Dow Jones products and solutions, and using this knowledge to ensure that solutions address clear needs for the prospect.
  • Forecast by managing Sales Forecast and Pipeline to ensure accurate recording of prospecting activity, conversion success, active sales opportunities at each stage of the sales process, and forthcoming new business revenue.
  • Track activity and success by maintaining a successful track record in a new business development role that requires cold calling.
  • Manage prospect/client information by keeping accurate and clear records within the global CRM system to provide a solid deal history, showing the steps taken to reach closure on new business deals.
Requirements:
  • Cold calling, understanding the best times to successfully reach prospects when they are ready to listen.
  • Strong results orientation, with the commitment and drive to achieve a new business goal in a demanding and competitive business environment.
  • Passionate about closing business, with a can-do attitude and ability to work independently when needed.
  • Good communication skills (listening, questioning, written, and verbal) to ensure the Dow Jones value position is clearly articulated to prospects and a persuasive business case is presented in email and verbal communications.
  • Excellent telephone skills; successful candidate will feel comfortable building rapport, developing business relationships, and demonstrating products over the telephone.
  • High level of business awareness to help build credibility with the prospect, spot potential opportunities within a peer group or industry sector, and express the benefits of Dow Jones in the appropriate business context.
  • Strong negotiation and closing skills to build a solid and persuasive business case, overcome objections, use solid supporting information where necessary, and ensure sales opportunities are managed to a successful conclusion.
  • A proven successful track record in a new business development role that requires cold calling into Fortune 1000 companies.
  • 3+ years of experience selling subscription-based products (business information and research) is a plus.
Our Benefits

We offer a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, including comprehensive healthcare plans, paid time off, retirement plans, comprehensive insurance plans, education benefits, family care benefits, commuter transit program, subscription discounts, employee referral program, and more. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets.

Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, please reach out to us at TalentResourceT[redacted]. Please put Reasonable Accommodation in the subject line.



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