Sales Executive, Testing - Energy
Northbrook, IL, United States
- This role is 100% remote requiring 25-50% travel
- Candidates must reside in Midwest or Western US
- Supports planning of sales strategy and maintains ongoing plan to prioritize portfolio of accounts and maintain relationships throughout the year. Interfaces with customers to promote and sell UL Solutions' products and services.
- Uses technical credibility to build relationships with buyers and centers of influence.
- Drives sales process from beginning to end, leveraging support from Sales Support Specialists and Inside Sales Executives
- Follows up with customer to ensure renewal of services where applicable.
- Actions on opportunities to sell testing services in the Automotive space.
- Meets with new logo prospects from inbound and outbound channels to qualify their needs, understand decision-makers, and land new customers.
- Supports discovery, opportunity identification, proposals, and closing for sales of core UL Solutions products and services.
- Leverages technical support (engineers) when necessary
- Creates and maintains pipeline of new logo prospects to supplement existing account activities, owns new logo process through close of sale.
- Transitions implementation to success / fulfillment teams after sales have been closed to ensure seamless service delivery.
- Where applicable, supports development of multi-year account plans in Testing, Inspection and Certification by providing insight
What you’ll experience working at UL:
- Mission: For UL Solutions, corporate and social responsibility isn’t new. Making the world a safer, more secure and sustainable place has been our business model for the last 130 years and is deeply engrained in everything we do.
- People: Ask any UL Solutions employee what they love most about working here, and you’ll almost always hear, “the people.” Going beyond what is possible is the standard at UL. We’re able to deliver the best because we employ the best.
- Interesting work: Every day is different for us here as we eagerly anticipate the next innovation that our customers’ create. We’re inspired to take on the challenge that will transform how people live, work and play. And as a global company, in many roles, you will get international experience working with colleagues around the world.
- Grow & achieve: We learn, work and grow together with targeted development, reward and recognition programs as well as our very own UL University that offers extensive training programs for employees at all stages, including a technical training track for applicable roles.
- Total Rewards: The target annual pay range for this position is $116,250. - 131,750. which includes a base salary of $75,000. - $85,000. and 100% on target performance. Members of the sales function are eligible to participate in the UL Solutions Sales Incentive Plan. The annual target incentive for this position is 55% of the base salary, paid quarterly, and is contingent upon performance.
- Employees are eligible for health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental & financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country, for the relevant position level. We also provide employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours). Internal applicants with questions related to the Total Rewards for this position should submit a ticket via askHR for more insights. Plans sales strategy and maintains ongoing plan to prioritize portfolio of accounts and maintain relationships throughout the year.
- The application deadline for this position is 5/1/2025
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- Bachelors or equivalent required
- 2-4 years of related sales experience
- Deep knowledge and experience with Automotive Industry
- Proven ability to meet and exceed sales targets.
- Business acumen and deep understanding of business sales processes.
- Proficient in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook), and CRM software.
Job Profile
100% remote with travel Must reside in Midwest or Western US
Benefits/PerksExtensive training Extensive training programs Health benefits Holidays Incentive plan Interesting work International experience Paid Time Off Recognition programs Retirement savings Reward and recognition programs Sales Incentive Plan Sick time Targeted development Training programs Vacation Wellness benefits
Tasks- Build relationships
- Drive sales process
- Maintain account relationships
- Opportunity identification
- Plan Sales Strategy
- Qualify customer needs
- Support proposals and closing
- Transition to fulfillment teams
Account management Automotive Industry Business Acumen Closing sales CRM CRM Software Customer Relationship Management Discovery Inspection International Experience MS Office Opportunity Identification Pipeline Management Proposal Development Sales Sales process Sales Processes Sales Strategy Sales Support Sales targets Software Technical Credibility Technical Support Technical Training Testing Testing Services Training
Experience2-4 years
EducationBachelor's Business Equivalent Sales
TimezonesAmerica/Anchorage America/Chicago America/Denver America/Los_Angeles America/New_York Pacific/Honolulu UTC-10 UTC-5 UTC-6 UTC-7 UTC-8 UTC-9