Sales Associate

CME Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 77,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Exposure to CME products

Career progression

Cross-functional collaboration

Competitive salary + benefits

Job summary

CME Group is seeking a CD&S Sales Associate in New York to support revenue growth across client segments. You will engage with clients hands-on, analyze data to measure performance, and drive outbound outreach to buyside, sellside, and trading firms.

You’ll collaborate with product teams on launches and help develop market intelligence for smarter prospecting. The role emphasizes detail orientation, curiosity about financial services, and strong communication.

Qualifications

• ?0-3 years of sales experience, ideally with a strong interest in financial services.
• ?Detail‑oriented and self‑motivated.
• ?Excellent interpersonal communication skills, with confidence in delivering presentations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary point of contact for client requests and handle ongoing client service needs.
• Utilize and analyze data sources to track, report, and evaluate performance against key metrics and activities.
• Execute outbound sales outreach targeting buyside, sellside, proprietary trading firms, and commercial clients.
• Collaborate with relevant product teams to support new product launches and sales initiatives.
• Research, analyze, and compile segment, market trend, and client intelligence data to enhance sales prospecting, inform decision‑making, and support new business development.
• Demonstrate proficiency in CRM systems, effectively navigating them to input and export data.
• Liaise with resources across the enterprise to facilitate the resolution of support issues.

Skills

Sales experience

CRM (Salesforce)

Interpersonal communication

Analytical thinking

Spanish/Portuguese (preferred)

Tools

CRM systems

Job description

The CD&S Sales Associate will be a vital member of the team, supporting revenue growth for CME Group Products across targeted client segments and regions. This role focuses on hands‑on client engagement, data‑driven analysis, and strategic support for the sales team's outreach and market intelligence efforts.

What you’ll get:

• Exposure to CME’s vast number of products and asset classes.
• A supportive environment that promotes career progression.
• The opportunity to work with several functional groups across departments.
• Competitive salary & comprehensive benefits package.

What you’ll do:

• Serve as a primary point of contact for client requests and handle ongoing client service needs.
• Utilize and analyze data sources to track, report, and evaluate performance against key metrics and activities.
• Execute outbound sales outreach targeting buyside, sellside, proprietary trading firms, and commercial clients.
• Collaborate with relevant product teams to support new product launches and sales initiatives.
• Research, analyze, and compile segment, market trend, and client intelligence data to enhance sales prospecting, inform decision‑making, and support new business development.
• Demonstrate proficiency in CRM systems, effectively navigating them to input and export data.
• Liaise with resources across the enterprise to facilitate the resolution of support issues.

What you’ll need:

• 0-3 years of sales experience, ideally with a strong interest in financial services.
• Detail‑oriented and self‑motivated.
• Knowledge of CRM databases (e.g., Salesforce.com) is a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, with confidence in delivering presentations.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and critical‑thinking abilities.
• Fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese preferred, but not required.

The pay range for this role is $77,000-$128,300. Actual salary offered will be dependent on a wide array of factors including but not limited to: relevant experience, skills, education and comparison to internal employees (where relevant).

• Our compensation program also includes an annual target bonus opportunity for all employees, as well as the opportunity to become an owner in the company through our broad‑based equity program.

Through our benefits program, we strive to offer flexibility, value and choice. From comprehensive health coverage, to a retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active pension plan, to highly competitive education reimbursement provisions, paid time off and a mental health benefit, CME Group offers a holistic benefits package for our team and their dependents.

CME Group: Where Futures are Made

CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow.

We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more. At CME Group, we embrace our employees’ unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued.

As an equal‑opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.

As the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group is where the world comes to manage risk. We enable clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities.

CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes foreign exchange energy agricultural products and metals.

We meet uncertainty and volatility with confidence and clarity, across the trading lifecycle and around the world.

Hear more about our employee experience. Get a look inside CME Group and see what makes us tick. A rewarding career is only the beginning.

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