Sales Director (Hybrid)
About the Business
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below, risk.lexisnexis.com
About our Team
Are you looking to join an industry-leading sales organisation? Our sales team is dedicated to partnering with organisations to address and solve complex risk problems. At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, we pride ourselves in providing solutions that directly impact our customers' ability to mitigate and manage risk.
About the Role
You'll lead our business strategically, ensuring profitable growth in a fast-expanding market. As a people leader, your role involves crafting and executing commercial strategies to seize market opportunities, enhance customer engagement, and surpass targets. You'll be a key leader, shaping business strategy, managing a team of sellers in a defined territory, and working alongside your team to nurture crucial customer relationships. Your responsibilities also include promoting customer-centricity across the business and driving best practices company-wide.
Responsibilities
• Exceeding financial and wider business objectives
• Attracting, retaining and growing a high-performance sales function
• Coaching and management of the sales team leveraging Insight Selling methodology and demonstrating and executing our best practices framework.
• Leading, developing, inspiring and motivating your team to deliver against business and team objectives
• Deploying resources into areas of best impact to execute on market strategy
• Increasing both customer and employee satisfaction, engagement, mission impact, loyalty, innovation and revenue
• Developing a deep understanding of customer workflow, market trends, opportunity and threats.
Qualifications
• Full professional proficiency in English (native or bilingual) is mandatory.
• Proven track record of driving growth to exceed financial and other business objectives in complex customer organisations.
• Show examples working cross-functionally to create high performance organisations
• Be well versed in creating and developing sales strategies to maximise go-to-market resource and execute against market opportunity.
• Demonstrate extensive experience of C level commercial negotiations
• Be passionate about a world-class customer experience
• Proven track record of leading teams in value-based, customer-centric buying methodologies and exceeding objectives and financial goals
• Proven ability to identify, hire and develop high performing talent and managing under performance
• Able to champion diversity and representation, as well as leading proactive succession planning and talent management to improve customer outcomes
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Skills Required
- Full professional proficiency in English (native or bilingual).
- Proven track record of driving growth to exceed financial and business objectives in complex customer organizations.
- Experience working cross-functionally to create high-performance organizations.
- Experience creating and developing sales strategies to maximize go-to-market resources and execute market opportunity.
- Extensive experience of C-level commercial negotiations.
- Passion for delivering a world-class customer experience.
- Proven track record of leading teams in value-based, customer-centric buying methodologies and exceeding objectives and financial goals.
- Proven ability to identify, hire and develop high-performing talent and manage underperformance.
- Ability to champion diversity and representation, and lead succession planning and talent management.
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
RELX Insights
What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
