Enterprise Business Development Executive

Description

About Evanta:

Evanta is a  Gartner Company , the world’s leading research and advisory firm. A division of Gartner Conferences, Evanta creates exclusive communities of C-level executives from the world’s leading organizations. These networks are built by and for C-level executives to share ideas, validate strategies and solve critical leadership challenges through peer-to-peer insight and collaboration. Evanta’s trusted communities serve CIOs, CISOs, CHROs, and CDOs around the world.

About this role:

The Business Development Executive (BDE) is responsible for hunting net new opportunities and strategically selling sponsorships into Evanta conference portfolios through acquisition of new business.

What you will do:

• Prospect and secure net new business to support the Evanta business through sponsorship sales; strategically building relationships with sales and marketing professionals at all levels of an organization especially the C-Suite

• Build and maintain a predictable sales pipeline to ensure quota attainment

• Develop strong, collaborative, relationships with internal sales teams to close multi-market account opportunities

• Clearly identify highest level decision makers in order to elevate influence and determine client's mission critical priorities and help execute on those priorities through sponsorship sales

• Travel monthly to meet on-site with prospects

What you will need:

• Minimum 5+ years of business-to-business sales experience; preferably information technology sales experience

• Proven ability to understand enterprise-wide issues and to structure innovative, integrated solutions that provide marketing decision support to global organizations in achieving their business goals

• Knowledge of the issues faced by C-level heads of Sales and Marketing

• Good understanding of business buying centers

• Solid industry specific and account knowledge

• Ability to travel to conferences, client meetings, competitive conferences

• Bachelor’s degree is preferred

• Comfortable with a Hybrid model of work (Once per week)

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Who are we?

Gartner delivers actionable, objective insight to executives and their teams. Our expert guidance and tools enable faster, smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization’s most critical priorities. We’ve grown exponentially since our founding in 1979 and we're proud to have nearly 16,000 associates globally that support our 14,000+ clients in more than 100 countries.

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