Sales Executive, TIC (Area Manager - Textile)

JOB DESCRIPTION

• 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.
• Transitions implementation to success / fulfillment teams after sales have been closed to ensure seamless service delivery.
• Where applicable, supports development of GAM and SAM multi-year account plans in TIC by providing insight on area of specialization (specific product/ service).
• Supports remaining account managers on discovery and opportunity identification for assigned specialty products / services.
• Works under the close guidance of account managers (GAMs, SAMs) to seamlessly work with customers throughout the sales cycle.
• Provides any necessary information to SAM and GAM during account planning process on potential growth opportunities within assigned solution area.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Willingness and ability to travel to other regions and or throughout the designated country .
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and fully proficient/literate in a 2nd language.
• Creative and innovative thinking to problem solve and streamline processes.
• Ability to remain, objective and professional in challenging situations.
• Ability to work in fast paced work environment both independently and in a group setting and to interact with all levels of staff.

QUALIFICATIONS

• University Degree (Equivalent to bachelor's degree) in a related discipline
• 5+ years exp on direct sales.
• RCP
• Softline selling exp.
• Testing inspection exp.

ABOUT US
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers' products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
ABOUT THE TEAM
From life jackets to lawnmowers, toys to televisions, beauty and wellness, vitamins and supplements, we're involved in almost every consumer product you can imagine. We work with some of the largest retailers in the world, performing market surveillance, auditing and inspecting the products we put in and on our bodies. We abide by the highest ethical standards to ensure that not only are the products themselves safe, but the supply chains are using ethically and sustainably sourced materials. We build close relationships with our customers, providing advice and expertise to make sure they're delivering safe products that meet the latest requirements and manufacturing them fairly. Join our team and make your mark on products that shape people's lives.