
Senior Industry Executive - Auto - Financial Services
- Chicago, IL
- $94,000-148,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 10-15 years experience selling, consulting, and/or business development within the financial services industry preferably in Auto Finance.
- Major account experience in a matrix environment with expertise in navigating large complex organizations, identifying buyers, influencers, and closing business, preferably within Financial Services.
- Proven client engagement skills including prospecting, relationship-building, deal making, negotiating and closing business.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills. Articulate, persuasive and engaging communication style. Ability to be extremely persistent in a pleasant fashion.
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher from an accredited college or university, business related preferred.
- Willingness to travel as needed
- Effectively plan, prospect, initiate, develop, and drive solution adoption to close sales opportunities within assigned accounts. Responsible for the sales process from discovery, proposal, through close phases of the sales process.
- Lead external client planning process, identifying key business issues and aligning specific TU solutions to address client issues and opportunities.
- Maximize account penetration by increasing depth and breadth of TU solutions across customer’s organization.
- Support and contribute to internal client planning process (including opportunity prioritization) in order to manage opportunities and sales initiatives.
- Maintain an up-to-date and accurate sales pipeline in Salesforce to ensure effective tracking and management of opportunities
- Build and leverage relationships with other departments, including marketing, operations, accounting and other sales groups to meet the needs of the customer.
- Represent TransUnion at relevant industry trade shows and conferences as deemed necessary.
- Manage transition plan to account management team when delivery of initial sale is complete