The Director, SA&I Business Partner role is responsible for overseeing a segment of NielsenIQ North America Strategic Analytics & Insights (SA&I) end-to-end sales process across the entire SA&I portfolio, creating a portfolio-level strategy, executing through critical sales processes, and driving an active sales pipeline. The role requires a strong ability to articulate SA&I offerings and value proposition, overcome objections, and navigate resistance from clients. The Director will also be responsible for identifying new sales opportunities, creating and activating annual client strategies, and owning SA&I response for first-time service use, cross-specialty area proposals, and RFPs.
Requirements
- Own overall SA&I revenue target/quota for given portfolio
- Take the initiative to identify and capitalize on new sales opportunities
- Clearly and convincingly articulate SA&I offerings and value proposition
- Strong ability to overcome objection handling and navigating resistance from both current and prospective clients
- Have a deep understanding of client business strategy with the ability to effectively communicate to cross-functional partners
- Create and activate holistic annual client strategies and account plans for strategic clients
- Thoroughly understand client, market and competitor dynamics funneling strengths and opportunities to senior leadership
- Identify incremental SA&I business growth opportunities
- Represent all SA&I services and practice areas in a solution-agnostic manner
- Own SA&I response for first time service use and/or large/complicated study designs
- Cross-specialty area proposals
- RFP’s
- Lead T2T client meetings
- Drive sales strategy at your portfolio including awareness generation and ongoing engagement
- Maintain product/technical knowledge
- Partner closely with NIQ Account Lead and Practice Area teams on strategy, joint-selling, and potential RMS RFP responses
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare plan
- Flexible spending accounts and Health Savings Accounts
- Life and AD&D insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan including company matching contributions
- Disability insurance
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Flexible working environment
- Volunteer time off
- LinkedIn Learning
- Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)