Hybrid Senior Sales Representative

**Company Overview**

CreditSights is a leading independent credit research provider, headquartered in New York. We produce fundamental and quantitative research on bond issuers in the US, Europe and Asia. The firm has around 950 institutional clients around the world, including banks, investment advisors, mutual funds, pension managers, insurance companies, hedge funds, private equity firms and corporations.

CreditSights empowers more than 14,500 financial professionals among the world's largest institutions with the independent research, credit-risk tools and comprehensive market insights they need to minimize uncertainty and make well-informed credit decisions. Through our web portal and mobile app, we provide timely data, news, recommendations and unbiased analysis of the investment-grade and high-yield debt securities of 1,200 issuers around the world.

**Role Overview**

We are looking for an account representative to join our team in Singapore with responsibility for client-facing activity including all aspects of business development for his/her region. The primary focus is placed on new business sales, renewing of existing business and enabling the roll-out of new products and services.

**Responsibilities**:

- A high-energy individual who excels at articulating and promoting the value and competitive advantages of CreditSights’ research to help our customers solve key business problems
- Strong communicator of ideas, able to engage and lead client and CreditSights’ teams in challenging the status quo, implementing change, and driving action with a sense of urgency
- Proven success in sales, consulting, or marketing within financial services data, research and/or solutions is essential
- Familiar with the credit market landscape (across buy-side, sell-side, solution providers, etc.) and how it works in Asia Pacific; established network of contacts is desirable
- Driven to achieve success, inherent self-leadership, innovative, adaptability, confidence and executive presence. Exceptionally persuasive and impactful. Effective working in cross-functional teams

**Key Responsibilities**
- Accountable for overall performance, including the profitable achievement of sales goals, delivering value to exceed customer expectations and ensuring alignment with the Company’s business strategy for the APAC territory
- Build, define and execute the go-to-market strategy to achieve high growth results and sustainable performance
- Evangelize and provide thought leadership through constant engagement with the market and the customer community, develop and maintain high-level relations with C-level executives with the view to generating new business
- Maintain sales/CRM database of accounts
- Reporting of actual vs. budgeted sales on a regular basis and accurate forecasting
- Coordinate with research and support teams to create targeted corporate communications and events
- Work collaboratively with others to achieve group goals and objectives.
- The role will be based in Singapore with frequent travelling within the Asia Pacific region

**Qualifications**
- Knowledgeable about the Asia-Pacific fixed income investor base and its research requirements
- Strong influencing and well-developed interpersonal skills including demonstrable evidence of the ability to credibly interact with, and influence, senior level executives
- Enthusiastic and motivated self-starter with team player attitude and orientation
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple sales in parallel whilst maintaining excellent attention to detail
- Excellent English verbal / written communication skills

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