Account Manager, Tax and Trade

TRSS; Ann Arbor (MI); Remote; USD 128,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic sales professional to drive growth in small to mid-sized corporate accounts. This role focuses on prospecting new clients and managing existing relationships within a defined territory. You'll leverage your consultative selling skills to deliver tailored solutions, ensuring client needs are met while achieving sales targets. The company values diversity and offers a supportive work environment with a comprehensive benefits package, including flexible work arrangements and opportunities for professional development. Join a team that is committed to innovation and making a meaningful impact in the legal and tax sectors.

Benefits

Flexible Vacation

Mental Health Days Off

Work from Another Location

Headspace App Subscription

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

401k Plan with Company Match

Comprehensive Health Benefits

Qualifications

• 4+ years of direct field sales experience with a strong track record.
• Proven ability to sell complex software solutions to small and medium companies.

Responsibilities

• Prospect new business opportunities and maintain a clean sales pipeline.
• Manage the entire sales process from account planning to deal closing.

Skills

Consultative Selling

Sales Pipeline Management

Relationship Building

Salesforce CRM

Account Planning

C-level Engagement

Self-starter

Education

College Degree

Tools

Salesforce.com

MS Teams

Job description

This position is responsible for developing account plans for new and/or existing small to mid-sized corporate accounts in an assigned territory. Prospects new customers and new business at existing customers and close full solution sales to corporate customers.

Location: Must live in territory. Territory is North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and a bit of Kentucky.

Products: Selling the tax/trade solutions

About the Role:

• Prospecting: Actively seek out new business opportunities with both new and existing customers to build a strong sales pipeline. Keep your sales pipeline clean and up to date, aiming for 3-4 times coverage of your sales targets on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Account Management: Focused on companies with revenues of less than $500M, leading the entire sales process through account planning, to include initial contact, account planning, deal closing to renewal.
• Sales Goals: Meet or exceed your revenue targets.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with other teams within the organization to tailor our solutions to address the customer needs.
• Relationship Building: Establish and maintain strong relationships with key decision-makers and stakeholders, understanding their challenges and demonstrating how our solutions can address them.
• Salesforce Maintenance: Regularly update our CRM system (salesforce.com) to maintain accurate records of your sales activities and to provide reliable sales forecasts.
• Engage in direct client meetings either in person or via platforms like MS Teams.

About You:

• Proven ability to sell complex software solutions to small and medium companies (Less than $500M in revenue), using a consultative and value-based approach.
• Experience with high velocity sales, as well as land and expand approach.
• Must be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity and possess a growth mindset, capable of managing change effectively.
• Experience selling to C-level executives applying a solution selling approach and the ability to identify business challenges and impact to their business if they don’t solve their challenges.
• Skilled in leading detailed sales processes involving various stakeholders.
• Strong commitment to the company's mission, with a deep understanding of artificial intelligence and its applications in enhancing legal department operations.
• Enthusiastic about prospecting and able to manage the entire sales cycle independently from initiation to closure.
• Ability to work well with teams across different departments (such as marketing, product, and legal) to achieve shared objectives.
• Eager to help refine sales strategies, enhance the sales team culture, improve the company’s value proposition, and develop sales tools to boost overall success.
• College degree preferred with a minimum of 4 years direct field sales experience (sales experience in the corporate sector preferred) with proven, exemplary track record of sales quota over achievement.
• Ability to develop and execute an account plan.
• Able to work from home office and travel to customer locations.

What's in it For You?

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
• Social Impact: Ten 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.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The target total cash compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the target total cash compensation range for this role is $128,100 - $237,900. This is inclusive of both base pay and any target sales incentive. Pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay and any target sales incentive are part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This job posting will close 05/31/2025.

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Accessibility

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