Solution Sales Specialist

**About Us**

Diligent is the global leader in modern governance, providing SaaS solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit and ESG. Empowering more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members and leaders with a holistic view of their organization's GRC practices so they can make better decisions, faster. No matter the challenge.

At Diligent, you are an agent of positive change. You are joining a team of passionate, smart, creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. Be a part of a global community on a mission to make a real impact.

**Position Overview**:
The Solution Sales Specialist drives revenue growth through bookings, primarily related to initial prospect/customer meetings, pipeline creation, and commercial deal management. This position will have a specific focus on targeting Enterprise clients to sell our Diligent product suite into.

This individual contributor role will drive growth primarily through the sales cycle from effective customer prospecting, pipeline management (MEDDICC), accurate forecasting through to deal completion. The Solution Sales Specialist is an enthusiastic and commercially focused individual with a proven track record in influencing issuers, investors or intermediaries on the value that the Diligent product suite can bring in relation to executive compensation and board effectiveness.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Prospect new leads in addition to supplementing inbound leads to build pipeline.
- Develop an expert knowledge of Diligent's specialist GRC SaaS solution with a focus on multiple products within the Diligent portfolio.
- Adopt a 'solutions' selling approach, rather than a features and functionality sales approach.
- Effectively manage the end-to-end sales cycle from opportunity to deal close using MEDDICC sales methodology.
- Accurately maintain SFDC records, forecast and report out on projected bookings, deals closed etc. on a regular basis.

**Required Experience/Skills**:

- 5 years of SaaS selling, annual target achievement, demonstrates strong storytelling, writing, organization, self-awareness, and desire to over-deliver for customers.
- Proven experience in selling SaaS or technology related products or services with a track record of consistently closing new business;
- A high level of curiosity and empathy with the ability to understand a potential customer's context, issues and pain points through effective questioning and listening;
- Strong experience of holistic, value add 'solution' selling;
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills with a high level of charisma;
- Excellent influencing and negotiation skills;
- Excellent attention to detail with a good understanding of the sales cycle and the importance of accurate pipelining and forecast reporting;
- Competitive, tenacious and resilient with a strong ability to adapt and work calmly under pressure.

**What Diligent Offers You**
- **Creativity is ingrained in our culture.** We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
- **We care about our people. **Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few
- **We have teams all over the world**. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
- **Diversity is important to us.** Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability - to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C., Baltimore, London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, and Sydney.

**To all recruitment agencies**: Diligent does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Diligent employees or any other organization location. Diligent is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.