DNV Business Assurance North America is seeking a Junior Sales Executive to develop new business across services including ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001, ISO/IEC 22301, ISO/IEC 27701, TISAX, ICT training, and related assurance services.
You will build client relationships, identify opportunities within DNV’s customer base, follow up on sales and marketing leads, and manage opportunities from initial contact through proposal and closing. Working with sales, account management, marketing, and technical specialists, you will connect client needs with appropriate ICT assurance services.
This role offers a developing sales professional the opportunity to build expertise in cybersecurity, information security, AI governance, privacy, business continuity, and digital assurance while contributing to the growth of DNV’s ICT business across North America.
This is a remote position that is based out of one of our DNV offices in Toronto, ON, Calgary, AB or Vancouver, BC with travel up to 10% domestic or international.
Further details regarding role-specific requirements will be shared during the interview process.
What You'll Do
Key Responsibilities Business Development and Market Growth
- Develop new opportunities through targeted prospecting, outbound campaigns, cross-selling, and follow-up on leads from marketing, webinars, training, events, website inquiries, and referrals.
- Research target organizations and decision-makers, re-engage selected prospects, and build a qualified pipeline across DNV’s ICT assurance portfolio.
- Develop knowledge of DNV’s ICT assurance and training services, monitor market developments, and contribute to sales messaging and campaign ideas.
Sales and Client Engagement
- Qualify client needs, priorities, stakeholders, timing, and commercial potential, and manage opportunities from initial contact through proposal and closing.
- Build trusted client relationships, explain ICT assurance services in clear business language, and identify cross-sell, training, and account-expansion opportunities.
- Coordinate proposals, pricing input, internal approvals, client follow-up, and responses to client inquiries and formal requests.
- Maintain accurate CRM records, clear next steps, and timely pipeline and forecast updates, and coordinate successful handoffs to delivery teams.
Collaboration
- Work with account managers, industry sales teams, and experienced ICT sales colleagues to develop opportunities, including strategic, integrated, multi-site, or more complex engagements.
- Partner with marketing, technical specialists, auditors, and delivery teams to confirm client requirements, scope, feasibility, timing, and appropriate support.
- Participate in pipeline and sales-planning reviews and share relevant client feedback, market insights, and recurring sales barriers with ICT leadership.
Knowledge of every ICT standard is not required at the time of hire. We are looking for someone with the commercial aptitude, curiosity, and discipline to build this knowledge.
Who You Are and How You Will Work
You are commercially motivated, organized, and interested in developing your career in cybersecurity and digital assurance. You are comfortable initiating conversations, asking thoughtful questions, following up consistently, and explaining services in practical business language.
You will collaborate with ICT leadership, sales colleagues, account managers, marketing professionals, technical specialists, auditors, and delivery teams. You take ownership of your work and know when to involve additional commercial or technical expertise.
Responsibilities- Generous paid time off (vacation, sick days, company holidays, personal days)
- Multiple Medical and Dental benefit plans to choose from, Vision benefits
- Spending accounts – FSA, Dependent Care, Commuter Benefits, company-seeded HSA
- Employer-paid, therapist-led, virtual care services through Talkspace
- 401(k) with company match
- Company provided life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability benefits
- Education reimbursement program
- Flexible work schedule with hybrid opportunities
- Charitable Matched Giving and Volunteer Rewards through our Impact Program
- Volunteer time off (VTO) paid by the company
- Career advancement opportunities
**Benefits vary based on position, tenure, location, and employee election**
DNV provides a reasonable range of compensation for this role. The actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors, including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. The range of starting pay for this role is $85,000 CAD - $100,000 CAD.
12.30.2026
DNV is a proud equal-opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, or business need, without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
QualificationsWhat is Required
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
- Two (2) years of experience in B2B sales, business development, inside sales, lead qualification, account development, or another relevant commercial role.
- Experience developing or qualifying opportunities through outbound prospecting, inbound lead follow-up, referrals, or customer relationships.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong organizational, follow-up, and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple leads, client relationships, and opportunities.
- Confidence initiating client conversations and the ability to work independently while collaborating across sales, marketing, account management, technical, and delivery teams.
- Interest in cybersecurity, information security, technology, risk, compliance, assurance, certification, or professional services, with the ability to translate technical services into clear business value.
- Experience using, or the ability to learn, customer relationship management and standard business productivity tools.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
- We conduct pre-employment drug and background screening.
What is Preferred
- Experience selling professional services, certification, assurance, training, cybersecurity, technology, risk, or compliance services.
- Experience identifying opportunities within an existing customer base and supporting proposals, commercial presentations, requests for information, or formal procurement responses.
- Familiarity with ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001, ISO/IEC 22301, ISO/IEC 27701, TISAX, or other cybersecurity and information security frameworks.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience
- Two years of experience in B2B sales, business development, inside sales, lead qualification, account development, or another relevant commercial role
- Experience developing or qualifying opportunities through outbound prospecting, inbound lead follow-up, referrals, or customer relationships
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong organizational, follow-up, and time-management skills
- Ability to manage multiple leads, client relationships, and opportunities
- Confidence initiating client conversations and working independently while collaborating across teams
- Interest in cybersecurity, information security, technology, risk, compliance, assurance, certification, or professional services
- Ability to translate technical services into clear business value
- Experience using, or ability to learn, customer relationship management and standard business productivity tools
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills
- Ability to pass pre-employment drug and background screening
- Experience selling professional services, certification, assurance, training, cybersecurity, technology, risk, or compliance services
- Experience identifying opportunities within an existing customer base and supporting proposals, commercial presentations, requests for information, or formal procurement responses
- Familiarity with ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001, ISO/IEC 22301, ISO/IEC 27701, TISAX, or other cybersecurity and information security frameworks
What We Do
DNV is the independent expert in risk management and assurance, operating in more than 100 countries. Through its broad experience and deep expertise DNV advances safety and sustainable performance, sets industry benchmarks, and inspires and invents solutions.
