Junior Sales Executive

Tech Sales Jobs; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

DNV Business Assurance North America seeks a Junior Sales Executive to develop new business across ICT assurance services, including ISO/IEC standards and training. You will build client relationships, follow up on leads, and manage opportunities from initial contact through proposal and closing.

You will work with sales, account management, marketing, and technical specialists to connect client needs with appropriate ICT assurance services and contribute to North America growth.

Qualifications

• Develop new opportunities through targeted prospecting, outbound campaigns, cross-selling, and follow-up on leads from marketing, webinars, training, events, website inquiries, and referrals.
• Research target organizations and decision-makers, re-engage selected prospects, and build a qualified pipeline across ICT assurance portfolio.
• Develop knowledge of ICT assurance and training services, monitor market developments, and contribute to sales messaging.

Responsibilities

• Qualify client needs, priorities, stakeholders, timing, and commercial potential; manage opportunities from contact to closing.
• Build trusted client relationships, explain ICT assurance services in business terms, and identify cross-sell and account-expansion opportunities.
• Coordinate proposals, pricing input, internal approvals, client follow-up, and responses to inquiries and RFPs.
• Maintain accurate CRM records, clear next steps, pipeline and forecast updates, and handoffs to delivery teams.

Skills

Business development

Sales

CRM

Account management

Cross-selling

Market research

Negotiation

Job description

Junior Sales Executive, ICT Assurance

Location: Houston, TX, United States; Remote

DNV Business Assurance North America is seeking a Junior Sales Executive to develop new business across services including ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001, ISO/IEC 22301, ISO/IEC 27701, TISAX, ICT training, and related assurance services.

You will build client relationships, identify opportunities within DNV’s customer base, follow up on sales and marketing leads, and manage opportunities from initial contact through proposal and closing. Working with sales, account management, marketing, and technical specialists, you will connect client needs with appropriate ICT assurance services.

This role offers a developing sales professional the opportunity to build expertise in cybersecurity, information security, AI governance, privacy, business continuity, and digital assurance while contributing to the growth of DNV’s ICT business across North America.

This is a remote position that is based out of one of our DNV offices in AZ, CA, FL, NJ, NV, NY, PA, TX, and Washington D.C. with travel up to 10% domestic or international.

Further details regarding role-specific requirements will be shared during the interview process.

What You'll Do

Key Responsibilities Business Development and Market Growth

• Develop new opportunities through targeted prospecting, outbound campaigns, cross-selling, and follow-up on leads from marketing, webinars, training, events, website inquiries, and referrals.
• Research target organizations and decision-makers, re-engage selected prospects, and build a qualified pipeline across DNV’s ICT assurance portfolio.
• Develop knowledge of DNV’s ICT assurance and training services, monitor market developments, and contribute to sales messaging and campaign ideas.

Sales and Client Engagement

• Qualify client needs, priorities, stakeholders, timing, and commercial potential, and manage opportunities from initial contact through proposal and closing.
• Build trusted client relationships, explain ICT assurance services in clear business language, and identify cross-sell, training, and account-expansion opportunities.
• Coordinate proposals, pricing input, internal approvals, client follow-up, and responses to client inquiries and formal requests.
• Maintain accurate CRM records, clear next steps, and timely pipeline and forecast updates, and coordinate successful handoffs to delivery teams.

Collaboration

• Work with account managers, industry sales teams, and experienced ICT sales colleagues to develop opportunities, including strategic, integrated, multi-site, or more complex engagements.
• Partner with marketing, technical specialists, auditors, and delivery teams to confirm client requirements, scope, feasibility, timing, and appropriate support.
• Participate in pipeline and sales-planning reviews and share relevant client feedback, market insights, and recurring sales barriers with ICT leadership.

Knowledge of every ICT standard is not required at the time of hire. We are looking for someone with the commercial aptitude, curiosity, and discipline to build this knowledge.

Who You Are and How You Will Work

You are commercially motivated, organized, and interested in developing your career in cybersecurity and digital assurance. You are comfortable initiating conversations, asking thoughtful questions, following up consistently, and explaining services in practical business language.

You will collaborate with ICT leadership, sales colleagues, account managers, marketing professionals, technical specialists, auditors, and delivery teams. You take ownership of your work and know when to involve additional commercial or technical expertise.

About Us

AboutBusiness Assurance

We help companies ensure compliance, build high-performing management systems, and meet competence needs within a wide range of industries. DNV helps companies understand Working with us, you can be involved in technically challenging and innovative projects worldwide demanding a broad variety of expertise. Our strong focus on research and innovation opens an array of opportunities, and allows you to engage in projects which develop next generation solutions. and manage their risk picture through our management system certification and training portfolios.We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence.As a trusted voice for many of the world’s most successful organizations, we use our knowledge to advance safety and performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions to tackle global transformations.