Business Development Representative

OVERVIEW ISS Market Intelligence (MI), a division of ISS is offering an exciting fast paced, team oriented, sales environment for someone looking to start a career in financial services sales. Gain experience under the mentorship of a seasoned sales team and start to build your Rolodex. In this role you will market to and interact with representatives from large financial institutions including Heads of Distribution, Strategy, Product and Business Intelligence. Apply the exposure and learning experience from this role to springboard into an Account Management or Sales Role. The North America Business Development Representative will identify new business prospects across the Market Intelligence suite of products.  Ideal candidates will be results driven and highly motivated to generate new opportunities within the region and grow existing relationships. Use your creativity to correspond with, schedule meetings, and build relationships with C Level executives. Use your teamwork skills to strategize with the senior reps in determining a territory plan. Identify accounts for prospecting with your earnings potential based on the activity you can drive. Build proficiency in the asset management industry including (but not limited to) Distribution Intelligence, Research and Industry Trends. Are you ready to use your high energy and positive attitude to learn more about asset management? Are you naturally curious and want to learn about the solutions that ISS produces to assist some of the largest global financial firms in the world with data analytics, research and insights? If so, come work for a leader and advance your career. RESPONSIBILITIES Learn and master MI products and advanced selling and marketing technologies. Target, research and assist the sales team to create new leads across all verticals (Distribution, Product, Strategy, Operation and Business Intelligence)) for MarketPro Retirement, MarketPro Discovery Data, and MarketPulse Simfund. Prospect within the North American territory to identify and generate new leads for Sales Representatives.  Demonstrate outmost efficiency in shortening the sales cycle duration. Manage a daily queue of inbound leads from AMI marketing campaigns and website traffic with a goal of qualifying leads and establishing calls and meetings for Sales Representatives Be responsible for assisting the sales team developing and growing a geographical sales territory Communicate when appropriate any client/prospect outreach with the sales team & competitive intelligence on new product opportunities to marketing and product management Attend relevant industry events and educate oneself on the corporate governance industry Maintaining and generating email marketing sequencing through HubSpot. QUALIFICATIONS Experience with outbound outreach and client facing conversation (preferrable within the financial services sector). Must have strong desire to learn our financial research business and to grow…