Sales Executive (Kansas City / Topeka)

Job Description

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your sales experience to a world-class company that is market-leading for both content and technology?

Would you like to join an organization that is consistently recognized as a ‘ Top Employer to Work For’ across a broad range of categories, such a s Culture, Work-Life Balance, Diversity & Inclusion, Opportunities for Women, Social Impact, Volunteerism?

Do you have previous experience driving sales and revenue growth within a specific territory? Are you motivated by 'uncapped' commissions?

If yes, we are looking for you!

About the Role

As a Sales Executive, Digital Solutions you will be responsible for developing and growing new customer accounts in the legal community within an assigned territory. Each territory consists of a large base of small/solo (1-10 attorney) firms. You will utilize your prospecting and consultative selling skills, high energy and initiative to identify opportunities to provide FindLaw web-based marketing and advertising solutions. You will also be responsible to partner with our internal Account Management team related to the post-sales satisfaction and retention of existing FindLaw customers.

Territory: Kansas City, MO / Topeka, KS

In this opportunity as a Sales Executive, Digital Solutions , you will:

• Be responsible for the attainment of sales targets and quota on a monthly basis in assigned territory.
• Consult with the client regarding web-based marketing strategies and solutions that will meet their business needs and will improve their ability to generate business.
• Strategically grow a customer base through prospecting and cold calling.
• Create and maintain sales pipeline status ongoing by maintaining accurate and complete information in selected CRM database including activity, closing, project forecast, close ratios and market intelligence.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of complete line of products/services and customers business issues and needs.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders regarding existing and new clients to identify and resolve client concerns; establish and maintain current and potential client relationships.
• Communicate product and service opportunities, information or feedback gathered through client activity to appropriate internal resources, including relevant business issues and industry information for utilization in development of market specific action plans and sales strategy.

About You

You may be a fit for the role if you have/are:

• Minimum of 2 years' successful outside sales experience in professional B2B environments (*additional years of experience strongly preferred).
• Proven track record of sales success, fast growth and consistently achieving performance at 100%+.
• Previous sales experience in online/advertising environment preferred.
• Working knowledge of sales process, methods and techniques.
• Proven track record of developing new customer accounts requiring heavy prospecting, cold calling, appointment setting and closing ability.
• Strong Interpersonal skills, ability to interpret marketplace needs and translate them into products and/or services.
• Ability to develop and deliver effective presentations (in-person and virtually).
• Proven organization and time management skills and ability to work independently.
• Demonstrated ability to learn a complex product line quickly through self-initiative and discipline.
• Highly proficient in MS Office suite, utilizing a CRM (such as Salesforce preferred) and overall strong technical aptitude.
• High School diploma or equivalent required; Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Ability to be 'In-the-Field' prospecting / meeting with clients within the respective territory when COVID-19 travel restrictions are lifted.

What’s in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive Benefit plans; two paid company-wide Mental Health Day's off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
• Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
• Compensation: Base salary and a variable compensation that is directly related to your success.

FindLaw, a Thomson Reuters business, is the world’s leading provider of online legal information and Internet marketing solutions for law firms. FindLaw has grown significantly since its establishment in 1995, now employing more than 1,000 talented people with global operations in the United States, India and the United Kingdom.

FindLaw’s effective and innovative Internet marketing solutions include award-winning websites, custom video, online attorney profiles, social media solutions, search engine marketing and online advertising to help attorneys grow their business by connecting them with people who need their expertise. FindLaw also owns and operates FindLaw.com, the number one destination for consumers with legal needs with more than six million visits each month and home to the largest online legal directory of lawyers. As a trusted source, consumers turn to FindLaw.com to learn about a legal topic, solve a legal problem or find a lawyer.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com .