Gartner for HR Leaders, Large Enterprise Business Development Executive
Gartner for Human Resources Leaders is hiring for a growth-focused Business Development Executive to join their high-performing team! Chief HR officers (CHROs) must understand how the trends impacting the workforce and broader organization will shape their priorities in 2024 and beyond. In this climate, it is critical CHROs take action to increase the positive impact that they — and their teams — have on the organization. Looking ahead to 2024, CHROs are prioritizing three HR areas: leader and manager development, change management, and organizational culture.
Gartner predicts that in 2024 key trends for HR will include an "unsettled" employee-employer relationship, persistent skills shortages, transformative technology innovations, and pressure for operational efficiency.
Gartner's sustained double-digit growth has been propelled by our world-class Business Development function. Our Business Development Executives are responsible for the engagement with C-Level stakeholders within Large Enterprise organizations. These roles are individual contributor with a personal target, based on new revenue.
The Business Development Executive is supported by a Sales Manager, Sales VP, and our Subject Matter Experts. Dependent on practice, there may also be Sales Development support.
About this Role:
Our Business Development teams play a critical role in expanding Gartner's presence across the global market. Gartner Business Development Executives strategically acquire new clients by cultivating trust-based relationships with C-level executives to understand their mission-critical priorities and uncover opportunities to deliver client-value through the lens of the industry in which they operate. Gartner Business Developers drive the full sales cycle, from identifying prospects to closure and transition of new accounts to the account management team.
What you will do:
Seek out and drive new business opportunities with new-to-Gartner organizations across your territory, from initial client outreach to close, targeting Large Enterprise organizations.
Convert viable prospects into active Gartner clients, owning the full sales conversation and negotiation, through to the transition of new clients to the account management team.
Continually build a pipeline of high-quality opportunities to deliver against your sales metrics ensuring KPI's are met.
Quota responsibility for your assigned territory.
Manage complex high-revenue sales across matrix and diverse business environments.
Own forecasting and account planning on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis.
What you will need:
5+ years' B2B sales experience, preferably within complex, intangible sales environments.
Business development or new-client acquisition experience in a selling role highly desired.
Experience selling to and/or influencing C-level executives.
Proven track record meeting and exceeding sales targets.
Proven ability to precisely manage and forecast a complex sale process.
Willingness to conduct travel as needed.
Progression within Business Development Executive Roles:
Gartner offers a lifetime of opportunities driven by our growth. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.
Gartner has a promote-from-within culture and limitless opportunities for progression. Gartner leaders embrace this culture and are focused on helping associates achieve success in the current role, as well as coaching associates to the next role or path, whether it be more senior BD levels, account management paths, or sales leadership.
Typical internal promotions include:
Business Development Director
Team Lead
Sales Manager
What you will get:
Competitive salary, generous paid time off policy, charity match program, and more!
Collaborative, team-oriented culture that embraces diversity
Professional development and unlimited growth opportunities
Our awards and accolades:
Fortune World's Most Admired Companies 2016-2023.
Forbes America's Best Employers 2018, 2019 & 2022.
Forbes America's Best Employers for Diversity 2020-2022.
Forbes America's Best Employers for Women 2022.
Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality 2018-2022.
Disability Equality Index Award for Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion 2021 & 2022.
Newsweek America's Most Responsible Companies 2022 & 2023.
Who are we?
At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world. Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.
Since our founding in 1979, we've grown to more than 20,000 associates globally who support ~15,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting, and substantive work that matters. That's why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy, and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.
What makes Gartner a great place to work?
Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.
We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.
Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, and generations.
We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.
What do we offer?
Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation, and disproportionate rewards for top performers.
In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging, and inspiring.
Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.
The policy of Gartner is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to affirmatively seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.
Gartner is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers, including job seekers with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Company's career webpage as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling Human Resources at +1 (203) 964-0096 or by sending an email to ******.
#J-18808-Ljbffr