Associate Director Sales And Business Development
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About The Role OPIS, a Dow Jones company, is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Strategic Account Sales Manager to manage and significantly grow product sales within key strategic accounts across the Middle East & Africa chemical industry.
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About The Role
OPIS, a Dow Jones company, is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Strategic Account Sales Manager to manage and significantly grow product sales within key strategic accounts across the Middle East & Africa chemical industry.
This is a senior sales position focused on identifying, qualifying, negotiating, and closing complex enterprise solutions to exceed ambitious sales targets.
You will be responsible for maximizing profitable revenue growth and serving as a key ambassador for OPIS within the assigned territory.
About The Team
OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides price transparency across the global fuel supply chain, including the Spot, Wholesale Rack and Retail markets.
OPIS enables customers to buy and sell energy commodities with confidence with multi-platform access to accurate data, real-time news, powerful software and educational events.
Our commitment to reliability is reinforced by personalized customer service and constant innovation.
OPIS listens to what the energy community needs and responds with flexible and easy-to-use products.
Navigating world fuel markets is complex – OPIS makes it simpler.
You Will
- Be accountable for meeting or exceeding revenue targets by identifying market expansion drivers, managing performance-to-plan, and adjusting sales initiatives as needed.
- Create and manage a robust new business pipeline in the CRM (Salesforce), generating leads through prospecting, marketing sources, and customer meetings (face-to-face and virtual).
- Demonstrate strong closing skills for large, complex enterprise solutions, leveraging deep regional chemical industry knowledge, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
- Build and nurture strong relationships with key decision-makers, including C-level executives, to increase sales and implement consultative and value-selling methodologies.
- Develop and execute comprehensive account plans in collaboration with leadership, and provide highly accurate monthly forecasting (within 95% accuracy) based on your CRM pipeline.
- Work cross-functionally with commercial teams, product management, and Dow Jones Energy colleagues to drive cross-sell opportunities and ensure proper positioning of complex solutions.
- Stay current on the chemical industry, including market trends, business processes, competitor strategies, and quickly become an expert in new OPIS products and services.
You Have
- A minimum of 10 years of professional sales experience, with at least 8 years of demonstrated success selling complex enterprise solutions to customers in the Middle East & Africa.
- Proven success calling on and building relationships with senior executives in the chemical industry, petroleum, or refining sectors.
- A strong history of uncovering customer needs and navigating the buying process within multi-national companies.
- Expertise in consultative and value selling methodology, with an acute business sense and comfort discussing value propositions.
- Proficiency in a CRM platform (Salesforce preferred) and Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
- Exceptional closing skills, persistence, and ability to work autonomously as a self-starter.
- Excellent verbal and written English proficiency; fluency in Arabic is a plus
- A Bachelor's degree (a science or related technical field is a plus).
• Family Care Benefits
- Access to Dow Jones Products
- Subscription Discounts
• Employee Well-being Support & Fitness Programs
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities.
Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.
This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.
Job Details
Role Level: Not Applicable Work Type: Full-Time Country: United Arab Emirates City: Dubai Company Website: http://www.dowjones.com Job Function: Business Development Company Industry/
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