Senior Sales Executive
The Medium Law Firm Senior Sales Executive is responsible for renewing and selling Westlaw, Practical Law, CoCounsel, and a suite of innovative solutions, including our cutting-edge generative AI products, to mid-sized law firms within an assigned territory. This individual will leverage their expert consultative sales approach and honed professional demeanor to effectively manage complex relationships, while capitalizing on opportunities within Medium Law accounts. This is accomplished through an in-depth understanding of West's evolving product portfolio, especially our AI-powered legal solutions, along with sales techniques appropriate for a long sales cycle and a keen insight into the evolving needs of the legal profession in order to bundle comprehensive information and technology solutions to meet broad firm needs.
About the Role
In this opportunity as a Senior Sales Executive, you will be responsible for :
- Driving Results : Identify the best channel for engagement with customers, defaulting to virtual for the majority of deals where value is insufficient to warrant travel; Support in developing and executing territory growth strategies
- Closing : Prospect new customers, validate their needs, shape product plans and drive deals to close
- Relationship Management : Focus on new logo acquisition and mid-contract upsell / cross-sell opportunities and renewals
- Product Proposition : Possess core knowledge across products within the sub-segment and engage Sales Specialists where deep product expertise is required to drive to close
- Reporting : Utilize an automated and insight-driven Salesforce workflow to progress deals; KPI's include : Nurturing opportunities and moving more complex sales to close, i.e. New logo sales and existing 'non-named' account incremental sales
- Client & Market Intelligence : Understand specific customer arche@types and needs which are most prevalent within the sub-segment and territory
About You :
You're a fit for the role of Senior Sales Executive if your background includes :
Minimum 5 years successful sales experience in a consultative selling environment to C-level players4 year college degree, or equivalent experienceWorking knowledge of sales concepts, methods and techniquesAmbitious self-starter with high energy and motivationExcellent communication skills and closing skillsEffective time management skillsAble to work from home office and travel to customer locationsProficient in MS Office productsWorking knowledge of West products, experience selling into large law accounts, and strong knowledge and background in the legal profession and / or legal publishing industry requiredHigh level of competency with regard to internet, periodical and internal prospectingProficient database management skills