Business Development Executive, Strategic

About Gartner Digital Markets:

Gartner Digital Markets is a business unit within Gartner. Our mission is to empower organizations to accelerate growth by helping them embrace the right technology and services.

Gartner Digital Markets is the world's largest platform for finding software and services. With more than 100 million annual visitors across four buyer destinations—Capterra, GetApp, Software Advice, and UpCity—and 70 localized sites, Gartner Digital Markets helps software and service providers build their brand, capture demand, and understand their market. As the only destination for software and services driven by independent, objective research and verified customer reviews, we help connect providers with in-market buyers to fuel growth across the full funnel.

For candidates interested in taking their next career step, Gartner Digital Markets offers the best of two worlds—the stability and resources of a large, established organization combined with the fast pace and excitement of working for a dynamic growth business. Our team is on the front lines of innovation in an industry that is always transforming, providing an incredible opportunity for you to grow and learn throughout your career.
 

What we're looking for:

The Strategic Business Development Executive's role will focus on attracting new PPL & PPC software clients in our Strategic Channel to engage in marketing campaigns to drive their business growth. The successful associate will source new sales opportunities and close sales to achieve quotas. You will play a key role in increasing income and revenue by managing and negotiating with clients, generating leads, qualifying prospects and managing sales of products and services. You'll use your black belt skills to sell both PPC and PPL to our largest client base – strategic accounts.

Why you'll want to come to work:

• Identify the highest-leverage opportunities for Pay-Per-Click and Pay-Per-Lead campaigns within your territory of large, global software vendors.

• Utilize black-belt discovery skills to understand business objectives, mission critical priorities and key initiatives.

• Build a strong pipeline of qualified opportunities within software vendor marketing and sales teams.

• Evaluate a prospective customer's strengths, provide insights for areas where they can improve, and build trust-based value-added relationships.

• Collaborate with internal teams and colleagues to ensure successful onboarding and campaign performance.

• Master and consistently execute internal sales methodology and demonstrate sales leadership through coaching and mentoring.

What you'll bring to the team:

• 5+ years of proven consultative sales experience in technology (services or software).

• Proven, consistent success in your current and prior roles.

• Able to solve complex problems and successfully manage ambiguity and unexpected change.

• Be teachable and open to best practices and feedback as a means of continuous improvement.  Be consistent at delivering results through perseverance, humility, and a positive outlook in the face of challenges.

• Must be comfortable selling to, challenging and building trust-based, value-added relationships.

• Professionally persistent while prospecting and managing senior-level relationships within large global enterprises.

• Proven experience building excellent client relationships, offering value added, insightful and strategic vision into their business.

• Knowledge of the full life cycle of the sales process from prospecting to close.

Who are we? 

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we've grown to more than 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That's why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work? 

Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

What do we offer? 

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers. 

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.

Gartner believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 70,000 USD - 103,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based, uncapped sales incentive plan. Our talent acquisition team will provide the specific opportunity on our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates. We also offer market leading benefit programs including generous PTO, a 401k match up to $7,200 per year, the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount, and more.

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