Business Development Director

As of 10/25/2022

Business Development Director, TRSS

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your business development experience to a world class organization that is leading the way in both content and technology to make a safer and more secure world? Do you have the skills necessary to work as a team within Business Development and across the TRSS enterprise to craft and present innovative solutions, establish solid, long-term customer relationships and cultivate new business opportunities? If you are a team player and have excellent client and project management skills, coupled with the ability to work in complex environments then Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS) is looking for you!

As a Business Development Director for DoD, your role will focus on the sales and marketing of TRSS offerings to include the Thomson Reuters products as well as the innovation and development of custom solutions for a Department of Defense (DoD) focused territory. This role will utilize skills and knowledge related to working within a team environment to achieve TRSS sales success, increased usage and market share, revenue growth, and relationship building. To be successful in this role, you should be a thoughtful leader and confident decision-maker, while ensuring business unit success and client satisfaction.

As a Business Development Director for DoD, you will contribute to a variety of areas including:

• Prospect in your assigned territory for new to TRSS accounts
• Establish solid, long-term customer relationships and cultivate new business opportunities by diagnosing needs, presenting solutions, and addressing customer concerns.
• Attain assigned sales and revenue goals by closing new sales opportunities.
• Supports developing and executing territory growth strategies.
• Assist with the development, negotiation, proposal writing, presentation and implementation of custom solutions and contracts
• Establish solid, long-term customer relationships and cultivate new business opportunities by diagnosing needs, presenting solutions, and addressing customer concerns
• Partner with other Thomson Reuters business units to facilitate new sales
• Keep up to date on competitive activities in accounts and communicate information to TRSS leadership
• Direct and manage Proof-of-Concepts (POCs) to prospective clients in close coordination with the TRSS delivery teams including the analysis and product/technical business units.
• Works as a team with the Delivery Managers in prioritizing efforts and collaborating closely with the Analyst Managers and Technical team to problem-solve optimal solutions.

About You:

You're a good fit for the role of Business Development Director if you meet the following criteria:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. national security clearance
• Active Top Secret clearance preferred
• Bachelor's degree required
• Minimum of 5 years of government or commercial sales experience
• Working knowledge of sales concepts, methods and techniques
• Ambitious self-starter with high energy and motivation
• Excellent communication, presentation and closing skills
• Effective time management skills
• Government sales and account management experience required
• Public records/open source data experience strongly preferred
• Ability to travel to sales training, meetings, and to customer locations
• Customer service orientation and experience
• Proficient in MS Office/internet

What's in it For You?

At Thomson Reuters Special Services, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

• Our Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; company-wide Mental Health Day Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
• Learning & Development: Environment that encourages continuous learning and development
• Social Impact: Six employee-driven Employee Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact
• Compensation: Competitive salary and bonus component with market-leading benefits

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Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we've been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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