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Our advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and industry expertise transform our unparalleled data into powerful insight delivered through data and analytics platforms and services, news and commentary, and publications that help professionals in maritime operations, risk, and compliance stay well informed.
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Role Profile
Our customers across the Maritime Industry, ranging from Shipping, Finance, Insurance to Fortune 500 companies, and we are looking for an Account Executive to join the team and play a key role in our success in 2025 and beyond.
The Account Executive will be a hunter, developing and expanding critical relationships as we launch new products and expand our services to customers and prospects worldwide.
This is an excellent opportunity to employ your value / solutions selling experience in a B2B environment where you can gain a breadth of knowledge and develop your skills within a dynamic and challenging environment.
This is a full-time permanent role reporting into the Head of Sales (China) and offers a hybrid work model, with 2-3 days a week in our Shanghai office.
Key Responsibilities
- Generate new opportunities from targeted outbound activity, networking and referrals
- Engaging with senior decision makers, qualifying, negotiating, and closing
- Effectively managing pipeline with accurate forecasting, creating urgency, using Salesforce to capture meetings, next steps, stages etc.
- Feedback valuable market and product feedback, constantly pushing your market knowledge, competitors and emerging technology
- Sharing best practice to the team and working closely with the wider sales team
- Defining and delivering a strategic sales plan, managing a robust pipeline, and preparing accurate sales forecasts, new growth ideas and contingency plans
- Generating new business by prospecting, following up on inbound leads and outbound telephone calls to develop relationships with clients
- Partnering with internal support teams throughout the deal lifecycle, from scoping custom projects to managing client deliverables
- Presenting detailed sales proposals to potential clients via online product demonstrations
- Taking consultative sales approach and own the entire sales process, from prospecting to closing deals
- Consistently exceeding monthly revenue targets
- Working collaboratively with Customer Success Team to ensure new clients are on-boarded smoothly
- Developing your understanding of Lloyd’s List Intelligence proposition, our competitors, and clients to enable maximised sales and revenue generation
- Conducting ongoing market and industry analysis. Identify marketplace trends and potential product development avenues to produce revenue growth
- Able to travel to clients based on business needs
What we are looking for:
Essential
- Ambitious, highly motivated and competitive individual who is results orientated
- Someone who is coachable and constantly looking to improve
- A hard working, resilient individual, who is accountable
- A proven track record, selling SaaS solutions and data intelligence
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, constantly overcoming obstacles
- At least 4 years’ experience in B2B business development practiced in value-based selling
- Proven experience in dealing with senior management in multi-national companies through a complex sale cycle
- The ability to identify new revenue opportunities and maximise product potential
- An excellent written and verbal communicator, able to build successful relationships both internally and externally
- Thorough understanding and execution of an end-to-end sales process with a grasp on sales methodologies such as MEDDIC, SPIN etc.
- Proficiency in written and spoken English
Desirable
- Experience using Salesforce
- Experience selling into the financial services/banking/maritime sectors
- Proven experience selling business intelligence, insights, market data or editorial products and/or services
- A degree in any discipline
Our Promise to You – Benefits
- 22 days of vacation leave
- Work-From-Anywhere policy (up to 4 weeks per year, subject to approval)
- Hybrid work model for balanced work-life integration
- Pension contributions and retirement allowance
We know that sometimes the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don't fit all the requirements. If you're excited about working for us and have most, but not all of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need!
We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics under federal, state or local law.
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