Business Development Representative

Summary of Job Description
Are you motivated to launch your career in a high energy, competitive environment with a leading technology company? If so, let's have a conversation about how you can make an immediate impact. Our Business Development Representative (BDR) positions will prepare you for an exciting and rewarding career in the highly competitive software sales arena. These positions will provide you with hands-on experience sourcing and qualifying leads within our Tax & Legal businesses while building product knowledge and sales skills. You will work with a market leader, partnering with a world-class sales organization to prospect into a wide-range of legal, corporate or government entities selling our industry recognized cloud solutions. The position offers a base salary and variable compensation that is directly related to your success. In addition, this position provides and extraordinary benefits package, and extensive training and career growth opportunities.

About the Role

• Hit or exceed your monthly and annual targets and maintain consistently strong performance at 100% of your YTD goals
• Hit or exceed your daily contact targets and activity metrics
• Actively engage in the coaching process, partnering well with managers and individuals on your teams to share ideas and learn from each other
• Accurately, and in a timely manner, log all activities and customer contacts in Salesforce
• Consistently live the Thomson Reuters culture and values
• Be an Agile Learner. Demonstrating the ability to rapidly learn new knowledge and acquire new skills
• Remain Effective under Pressure. Maintaining stable performance under pressure (such as time pressure or job ambiguity); handling stress in a manner that is acceptable to others in the organization.
• Be Tenacious. Displaying determination, persistence and patience and being resilient in the face of adversity.
• Be effective at Change Receptivity. Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to change behavior in response to new situations.
• Be Creative. Actively partner with your sales and marketing team members to consistently create new sales campaigns that will generate new, highly qualified sales opportunities that convert to revenue.

About You

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent work experience in lieu of a bachelor degree
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Strong interpersonal skills (personable and professional)
• Ability to conduct self in a professional manner
• Agile learners - Ability to learn something new
• Commitment to a schedule that coincides with the customer's work day
• Intermediate computer skills and ability to navigate software programs such as Microsoft
• Experience in CRM preferred
• Motivated and competitive with a positive attitude

What's in it For You?
At Thomson Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance; company-wide Mental Health Days Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters cafe networking.

• Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we've never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we've been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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