VMS Account Executive - Military Veterans
at Verisk Analytics
Company Description
We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.
Job Description
As an Enterprise Account Executive, you will grow Verisk Marketing Solutions' (VMS) market share by engaging and selling our suite of data solutions to new customers. This is an outside sales hunting role where you will be consultatively selling complex solutions of varying deal sizes across insurance and financial services brands.
Internally, you'll work closely with cross-departmental resources to develop a strategy to drive client engagement. A solutions consultant will help you to match our products to the prospect's needs and our product team is always willing to help brainstorm and help throughout the sales process. You will also partner with Success team members to help drive customer value and engagement. Team selling and collaboration across the organization is very important.
NOTE: The essential functions are intended to describe the general content of and requirements of this position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. Specific tasks or responsibilities will be documented as outlined by the incumbent's immediate manager.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Enterprise Account Executives are responsible for using their initiative to identify prospects, analyze sales options, recommend product solutions, and maintain relationships with clients while expanding revenue opportunities.
Our most successful Enterprise Account Executives are skilled at uncovering problems our potential clients might have. Listening and the ability to probe with thoughtful questions will enable you to close deals faster.
- Managing all phases of the sales lifecycle including prospecting and developing leads; traveling to and meeting with prospects; developing value propositions; financial deal structuring to contract negotiation and closing.
- Identify and engage the right customer stakeholders to drive consensus for deals; work cooperatively with internal team for deal success.
- Manage selling activities for an assigned list of accounts delivering revenue against quarterly and annual targets.
- Selling our products through a defined solution selling methodology aimed to teach our customers to think differently about a business problem and leading them to our solution.
- Develop accurate forecasts and manage sales activity in CRM (Salesforce.com experience a plus)
- Learn the marketing technology and data domain to understand how VMS's offering can be applied to all stages of your customer's marketing and data operations - new business acquisition, cross selling, upselling and retaining accounts.
- Understand your customer's marketing strategies to develop use cases and the highest impact plan for value creation.
- Establishing an executable strategy which includes leveraging your existing business relationships and personal networks to generate sales leads for your pipeline.
- Working closely with VMS sales peers to share industry, deal, and sales "best practice" knowledge with sales community
Qualifications
- 5+ years of solution sales experience through defined sales process (Challenger, Value Selling, Sandler, etc.); sales experience within a SaaS or DaaS business model preferred
- Experience selling data products at executive level, preferably in marketing departments.
- Professionally assertive, not afraid to influence traditional thinking at any level of an organization. Can take prospects on a solutions journey to navigate the transition towards a new and better way of achieving business goals by using compelling, data-driven insights.
- Strong familiarity with the marketing technology and data industry selling complex data and analytics products, ideally to industry focused accounts
- Experience prospecting while effectively engaging initial points of entry and quickly navigating the conversation to key stakeholders and across executive leadership.
- Proven track record of being a top performer within a data and technology sales organization and demonstrated success exceeding goals involving large, complex, enterprise deals.
- Demonstrated use of Salesforce.com for pipeline management and as a tool for driving disciplined and repeatable sales processes.
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Additional Information
For over 50 years, Verisk has been the leading data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry by delivering value to our clients through expertise and scale. We empower communities and businesses to make better decisions on risk, faster.
At Verisk, you'll have the chance to use your voice and build a rewarding career that's as unique as you are, with work flexibility and the support, coaching, and training you need to succeed.
For the eighth consecutive year, Verisk is proudly recognized as a Great Place to Work® for outstanding workplace culture in the US, fourth consecutive year in the UK, Spain, and India, and second consecutive year in Poland. We value learning, caring and results and make inclusivity and diversity a top priority. In addition to our Great Place to Work® Certification, we've been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best-Managed Companies and by Forbes as a World's Best Employer and Best Employer for Women, testaments to the value we place on workplace culture.
We're 7,000 people strong. We relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation. And we are looking for people like you to help us translate big data into big ideas. Join us and create an exceptional experience for yourself and a better tomorrow for future generations.
Verisk Businesses
Underwriting Solutions - provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision
Claims Solutions - supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences
Property Estimating Solutions - offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient
Extreme Event Solutions - provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.
Specialty Business Solutions - provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance
Marketing Solutions - delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement
Life Insurance Solutions - offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.
Verisk Maplecroft - provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger
Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.
All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability. Verisk's minimum hiring age is 18 except in countries with a higher age limit subject to applicable law.
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About Us
We’ve been making the future more certain for half a century. In 1971, we opened our doors as an insurance rating bureau, focusing on risk analytics and insights. Since then, we’ve grown to become a valued source of insights that can drive recovery and transform industries, and even governments, worldwide.
Each and every day, we’re enabling better tomorrows. Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale.
We believe in the potential of business to change the world for the better. At Verisk, we take our responsibility toward our people, products, processes, communities, and the planet seriously. And we ethically and relentlessly pursue innovation to help move our customers and the world forward.
Our company is a great place to work. And to do work that matters. Verisk received U.S. certification from Great Place to Work®. Globally, we’re more than 6,000 people strong, all of us on a mission to achieve both profitable outcomes and positive societal impact.
Careers
We value your drive to succeed and share your commitment to the world. Search jobs now by location, keyword, category, and expertise. Or you can choose to join our Talent Network so we can notify you of opportunities that match your interests. Verisk is an equal opportunity employer.
The company’s policies for recruitment, advancement, and retention of employees forbid discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran’s status, age, or disability and any other criteria prohibited by law.
Our Culture
Great People Make Great Workplaces Verisk received U.S certification from Great Place to Work® for its outstanding workplace culture, as well as third-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. To achieve our certification, we surveyed our employees on their workplace experience and met Great Place to Work’s research-backed benchmark, considering factors such as innovation, inclusivity, company values, and the effectiveness of our leaders.
We’re a Great Place to Work® Best Workplace Employees have spoken! Verisk is one of the 38 companies on the 2022 UK’s Best Workplaces™ list (for Super Large Organizations) and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list (for companies from 101 to 250 employees)—highlighting our culture of trust, pride, and camaraderie.
Diverse and Global Join over 6,000 colleagues—including business and technical specialists, analysts, certified professionals, and marketing and sales experts—who do work that matters in more than 30 countries.
Positive Employee Experience We support a culture of engagement through education and development, team collaboration, and open communication that connects us all.
We use an annual survey to achieve a continuous loop of engagement, feedback, action, and change.
We provide a socially rich environment of activities and events.
Core Values
Purpose
Working together to build global resilience for individuals, communities and businesses.
Vision To be the leading strategic data, analytics, and technology partner to the global insurance industry by delivering value to our clients through knowledge, expertise and scale.
Values
• Learning - Remain open, curious and inventive
• Caring - Be aware, sincere and connected in your work
• Results – Achievement-driven, goal focused and resilient
How We Serve Our Customers Every day, Verisk works to create value for our customers by innovating to meet their ever-changing needs to help our clients make better decisions, improve productivity and profitability. We use artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, and other emerging technologies to collect and analyze billions of records.
Benefits
Comprehensive Financial Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, annual merit salary reviews, and the opportunity for advancement.
Verisk’s Disaster Relief policy provides interest-free loans to assist employees who suffer a financial loss from a natural disaster.
We offer best-in-class healthcare coverage options.
Group and Individual Wellness Programs
Depending on business location, we offer on-site health and wellness programs such as flu shots, weight management, yoga classes, the Verisk Global Walking Challenge, running clubs, and team sports.
Employee assistance programs help with the everyday challenges of life that may affect health, family life, and ability to excel at work.
We offer a wide selection of programs to help you achieve optimal health and wellness.
Work/Life Balance Programs
The Hours to Give program allows voluntary donations of accrued paid-time-off hours between colleagues when a medical emergency or major disaster occurs.
Verisk’s Parental Leave policy provides paid leave for new biological or adoptive parents.