Business Development Manager - Fluent German
Thomson Reuters VenturesBusiness Development lead – Financial Services
Fluent German
Are you passionate about using your sales experience with a market leading solution? Does contributing to significant growth in Germany excite you? Do you have previous experience driving new business sales within a specific territory? We are looking for you!
Join a sales team that is experiencing growth at an unprecedented rate with huge opportunity. Confirmation, part of Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading provider of secure online audit confirmations, used by over 4,000 banks and 16,000 audit firms globally. Our solution helps to digitise a paper-based process, mitigates fraud & automate processes, and as a result, enhances the customer experience. Due to our growth, we are expanding our entrepreneurial European team for German territory, to drive new business within the financial services industry.
The Business Development Lead – Financial Services will be responsible for prospecting, calling, & social selling to develop new relationships with financial institutions, across Germany.
About the Role:
As a Business Development Lead – Financial Services, at Confirmation, part of Thomson Reuters, you will:
· Drive network growth Germany, achieving pipeline and sales targets
· Develop and implement a sales strategy to add banks, custodians, and fund administrators onto the technology platform.
· Identify and set up meetings with prospective key decision makers across the territory.
· Attend client meetings, tradeshows, user groups, and key conferences to network, build new contacts and drive growth.
· Work with the Marketing team to plan and drive strategic initiatives, programmes, messaging, and campaigns within the region.
· Provide market feedback to the product team that enhances the current offering.
· This position requires approximately 10% domestic travel to ensure a smooth onboarding of clients.
About You:
To be our Business Development Lead – Financial Services you will likely have/be:
· Demonstrable experience of driving new business from prospecting, right through to closing deals.
· Proven track record of achieving and exceeding targets.
· Exceptional presenting skills at the C-Suite/senior level and ability to develop relationships with senior stakeholders in global organisations.
· B2B sales experience, preferably within financial services or audit.
· Experience of selling in a complex sales cycle.
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What’s in it For You?
Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally 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.
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