Account Executive, Tax/Trade - DC/VA/MD/PA/NC
Thomson Reuters VenturesAccount Executive, Tax/Trade
We currently have a need for an Account Manager- Small Medium Business (SMB) within our USA market. We are looking for an individual who is passionate about a career in sales. This is an enterprise multi-proposition sales position where the selected candidate will be focused on driving business objectives to obtain commercial targets within defined commercial accounts. While working in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment, you will be challenged with proactively searching for leads and generating sales to help continue to develop this fast-growing business unit. This is a team-oriented group that promotes innovative thought and idea sharing.
Territory: DC/MD/VA/PA/NC
Products: Tax/Trade solutions
Must reside in the territory
About the Role:
In this opportunity as a Account Executive, you will:
- Drive Results: Directly responsible for finding and building opportunities within commercial accounts in a defined territory; Utilize complex sales skills to guide prospects/clients through their purchasing decisions of Thomson Reuters products and services.
- Sales Process: Manage sales cycle from identifying prospects, working with numerous internal teams to coordinate appropriate resources, all the way through closing the deal; Execute utilization of OneSource sales methodology.
- Building Relationships: Manage relationships of customers post initial sale for upsell; Engage and build trusted relationships with Director, V, and C level executives
- Communication: Maintain regular cadence with management and update timely all activities in our CRM (SFDC) and other applicable systems and tools.
- Closing: Meet/exceed quarterly and annual quota targets.
- Client and Market Intelligence: Provide territory market and competitive information to Thomson Reuters for internal business decisions and positions.
About You:
You're a fit for the role of Account Executive if you have:
- Have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in sales
- 5 + years’ experience in consultative sales, closing complex software and services sales, and maintaining customer satisfaction, knowledge in accounting/tax acumen is a plus
- Proven track record selling consulting/professional services engagements, balancing new business prospecting, account growth, and upselling, with sustained and significant quota achievement.
- Strong executive presence and C-suite engagement skills, with the ability to deliver compelling product demonstrations and presentations to both small and large groups.
- Experience developing accurate sales forecasts and reports to support management decision-making, while maintaining strong organizational and time-management skills in fast-paced, results-oriented environments.
- Proven ability to execute innovative sales strategies and lead complex, strategic negotiations through successful agreement closure.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and cross-functional partnership skills, with success working closely with Sales Consultants, Lead Generation, Professional Services, Product Development, and Marketing.
- Proficiency with core sales and business tools, including SFDC, email, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, Zoom, and expense/travel management systems.
#LI-D2E
What’s in it For You?
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.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
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. 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.
As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 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. More information on requesting an accommodation here.
Learn more on how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here.
More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com