Business Development Manager MEA - RELX

Business Development Manager MEA

About the Business
At ICIS, our mission is to optimize the world's resources. We help companies make strategic sustainable decisions by bringing transparency to markets across the world. We create a comprehensive view of commodities markets, providing companies with the data and intelligence to successfully navigate across global value chains every day. Our customers benefit from instant access to price assessments, reports, forecasts, a dedicated news channel, and supply and demand data. You can learn more about ICIS at the link below.

About our Team
Are you looking to join an industry-leading sales organization? Our business development sales team is dedicated to cultivating and executing a strategic approach to acquiring new customers within the energy, petrochemical, and fertilizer industries.

About the Role
The MEA Business Development Manager is responsible for acquiring new business by selling ICIS solutions to prospects within an assigned territory. You will plan, organize, and execute sales campaigns with an emphasis on new business acquisition.

You’ll Be Responsible For:

1. Prospecting and having effective conversations with clients, including LinkedIn posts and engagement with potential customers.
2. Handling inbound leads with a consultative sales approach, identifying challenges and problems your prospects are trying to solve.
3. Planning, organizing, and executing sales campaigns to acquire target prospective customers with the assistance of your manager.
4. Managing the full sales cycle in a consultative sales approach utilizing value-based selling conversations.
5. Working closely with other departments like marketing, legal, product, and senior leadership. Managing the entire customer onboarding experience, sales cycle, and delivery of ICIS solutions, ensuring an excellent customer journey.

Requirements

1. Must have 3 to 5 years of sales experience, with a strong preference for candidates who have an understanding of the MEA Energy, Chemicals, and Sustainability landscape.
2. Demonstrable sales habits that have led to prior success. Full sales cycle for new logos experience is a plus.
3. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Excellent presentation skills. Strong preference for a second language such as Arabic or French.
4. Able to achieve professional goals and be open to sales coaching.
5. Possess a high level of energy, self-motivation, competitiveness, and a desire to positively impact the business.

At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 30 diversity employee networks globally and prioritize inclusive leadership and equitable processes as part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups. We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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