Sales Executive - Certification Sustainability Services

Job Description

We are seeking a Sales Executive - Sustainability in the UK to join our sustainability team. This executive role will be customer-facing and lead sales of validation and certification sustainability services and testing in the region EU West, MEA, UK, Ireland and Lithuania territories.

This role requires a service-minded, customer-centric, proven consultative Sales professional with medium environmental knowledge expertise to sell and respond to customer inquiries.

Responsibilities

• Supports planning of sales strategy and maintains ongoing plan to prioritize portfolio of accounts and maintain relationships throughout the year.
• Interfaces with customers primarily remotely (video, phone, email) to promote and sell UL products and services.
• Uses technical credibility to build relationships with buyers and centers of influence.
• Under moderate level of guidance, drives sales process from beginning to end, leveraging support from Sales Support Specialists and Inside Sales Executives when necessary.
• Follows up with customer to ensure renewal of services where applicable.
• Actions on opportunities to sell specialty product / services.
• Meets with new logo prospects from inbound and outbound channels to qualify their needs, understand decision-makers, and land new customers.
• Supports discovery, opportunity identification, proposals, and closing for sales of core UL products and services.
• Leverages technical support (engineers) when customer has a qualified need.
• Creates and maintains pipeline of new logo prospects to supplement existing account activities, owns new logo process through close of sale.
• Brings in additional resources when advantageous to support sales process, and delegates leadership of the sale to Technical Inside Sales Executives for highly technical or specialized products / services.