Senior Sales Executive –New Business - Financials Vertical – Europe

S&P Global•London, England, UK

fulltime

Sales

5+ years

About the role

About The Role Grade Level (for internal use): 12

The Team Our trade and supply chain, risk, economics and third-party risk and compliance data and consulting services are used by senior executives within multinational corporations, financial organizations, and government organizations to underpin critical strategic decisions and provide them with a 360-degree perspective on what matters most to their business or organization.

The Impact The Global Insights portfolio of solutions supports our customers with a horizontal view of the geographies, sectors, and environments that shape the world in which they, their suppliers, and their customers operate. With data and consulting solutions spanning across trade and supply chain, risk, economics and third-party risk and compliance this role presents an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of shaping our customers’ strategies. All our solutions are supported by best-in-class researchers, consultants, subject matter experts, solutions engineers and data and analytics teams.

What’s In It For You As new business sales director for UK & Ireland, you will be responsible for individual contributions for our Global Insights solutions across UK & Ireland. You will be responsible for retiring you annual quota through the sales of both subscriptions, consulting and one time sales into all Financial Services verticals across UK & Ireland.

You will leverage an organized and metrics driven approach to drive success and adapt GTM plays and product feedback.

You will help solve some of the biggest risk and growth challenges the corporates vertical face. Supporting you will be our deep bench of consultants, product experts, and solutions engineers from across Global Insights.

The Product Suite Trade & Supply Chain

Supply Chain Console
Panjiva
Pricing and Purchasing
PIERS
Global Trade Analytics Suite
JOC
Port Performance
MIRS
Ships Data
Ports & Terminals
Maritime Portal
Vessel Tracking

Global Risk & Economics

US Econ
Global Econ
PMI
Industry Solutions – CIS
Country Risk
Banking Risk
Foresight
Combined Country Intelligence - ADCAF, BRS, Country default monitoring

Third-Party Risk and Compliance

Entity Insights
Supplier Risk Indicator
Trade Compliance Secure

Consulting

Economic Industry & Planning

Geopolitics and Risk Intelligence

Supply Chain & Logistics

Responsibilities Leadership Responsibilities

Meeting and exceeding your annual quota and acting as a key contributor to the diversified corporates team target new business sales targets on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis for both subscriptions, one time and consultancy sales.
Owning your quota number – Accurately forecasting and communicating the committed and best-case deals in your pipeline on a monthly and quarterly basis.
Execute existing GTM sales plays help to design and execute evolving sales plays with sales and product leadership team input across the Global Insight product suite
Work closely with the S&P Market Intelligence account management team to ensure maximum collaboration both before and at the point of renewal for fast growth in our existing footprint
Be a key input in planning and design outbound marketing campaigns, with sales, product, and marketing leadership team input. Identify key external events and act proactively to plan and design internal customer events.
Live a culture of continual improvement from to ensure efficient movement through key stages of the sales process. Ensure you can demonstrate “Exit Gates” have been reached in each stage of the sales process.
Ensure MEDDPICC qualification check is employed by you and can be demonstrated on enterprise size deals.
Travelling throughout UK & Ireland whenever required to meet with customers and prospects.
Synergy Sales – Meeting key synergy or cross selling targets set by the wider organization.

What We’re Looking For The ideal candidate can demonstrate the following during the interview process:

The ideal candidate can demonstrate the following during the interview process:

Demonstrate that you can understand the data & analytics subscription and one time sales process
Demonstrate that you can understand the consultancy sales process
Demonstrate that you will be able to understand the Financial Services Vertical. Including key C level initiatives that translate into actionable tasks delivered with the help of Global Insights Solutions
Demonstrate that you will be able to understand or learn the key personas within the Financial Services Vertical that will deliver these initiatives. Including how they are measured and what challenges they may face.
Be able to tie the understanding of the Financial Services Vertical and key personas together and demonstrate the plan of how you will sell to them based on this knowledge.
Demonstrate that you will be able to understand or learn multiple Global Insights data, analytics, and research solutions sets. What challenge they solve, how they solve this differently from others and how this has been applied to existing customers challenges
Demonstrate that you will be able to understand or learn how Global Insights consultancy services can be used to solve key customer challenges for existing upsells and new logos
Proven ability to generate outbound pipeline from both existing customer relationships and new logos. Includes:
Building and executing an annual sales plan which highlights key existing customer growth accounts and white space strategy
Ability to generate meetings from existing S&P relationships
Ability to generate meetings from cold outreach or low penetrated accounts.
Ability to build and write content for email outreach campaigns
Ability to organize and drive in person customer events
Proven ability to sell at both a transactional and enterprise level with ticket sizes ranging $50k-500k
Proven ability to show preparation and plan prior to a confirmed sales meeting
Demonstrative evidence of performing discovery across user personas to uncover key challenges.
Demonstrate successful ability to build multiple champions at user level, middle management, and C-level
Proven ability to deliver email recap and professional proposals that capture pain points discovered, and ROI of GIA solutions delivered for review by budget holders
Proven ability to manage to a defined outcome for both trials/POC/Pilots
You are a high energy individual who has a deep curiosity for understanding prospect persona’s specifically their key performance measures and uncovering key challenges
You demonstrate continued persistence in learning and improving.
You are driven to succeed in sales and focused on constantly improving the efficiency of your execution

About S&P Global Market Intelligence At S&P Global Market Intelligence, a division of S&P Global we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction.

For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.

What’s In It For You? Our Mission Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values Integrity, Discovery, Partnership Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our Benefits Include

Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit\-summaries

Global Hiring And Opportunity At S&P Global At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

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40 - Sales (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), SLSOUS402.2 - Middle Professional Tier II-Ou Sales (EEO Job Group)

Job ID: 324798

Posted On: 2026-02-16

Location: London, United Kingdom

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