Now Hiring - Business Development Executive in Minneapolis, MN

Roles & Requirements:

The successful candidate will be a savvy sales professional with skills and experience selling cloud-based, data-powered, business solutions. Specific requirements are:

• Minimum of 3 years of direct B2B sales
• Proven track record for establishing new business relationships and gaining commitments
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to effectively interact with a variety of client types and levels
• Experience working in and/or selling SaaS software systems, solutions, or consulting services
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or major
• Fully competent PC and MS Office user (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint)
• Experience managing sales activities and process using a CRM system
• Self-disciplined and self-motivated
• Above average organizational skills

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify market opportunities and business potential
• Identify and qualify leads and sales opportunities
• Co-develop and deliver business proposals
• Initiate, develop, and close sales opportunities that result in new client acquisition through face-to-face meetings, phone calls, emails, and direct marketing campaigns
• Develop and deliver sales presentations
• Expand business in existing accounts by introducing additional services and solutions
• Contribute thought and information to corporate sales and marketing strategies
• Remain current with industry, sales, and business knowledge
• Attend trade shows and conferences
• Meet annual sales goals

Status and Location:

Full-Time, exempt, base salary and commission with benefits. To be effective in this role, the candidate will reside within the Minneapolis metro area or within a sustainable driving distance.

About Contata Solutions:

At Contata, we seek to inspire ideas and unlock value through innovative and powerful data science and technology solutions. Our team is driven by core values which serve as a guide to how we behave as an organization, and as individuals. We are inventive, genuine, generous, accountable, and tenacious. Each of these values holds special meaning and is a call to action for the Contata team. It is our aspiration to ensure that every project and every interaction with our team provides meaningful business value and is the best part of our client’s day.

To support our ambitious growth plans, Contata is hiring a Business Development Executive to focus on new client acquisition. We reward results! The successful candidate has experience in direct B2B sales and territory management – ideally within the SaaS software product and services industry. If you are an energetic, competitive, and persuasive sales professional with a successful track record of gaining commitments, we want to meet you. This position is based in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, but the territory in national.