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The role will be responsible for the generation of new sales acquisition of SME businesses. This is an individual contributor role. The successful candidate must have knowledge in technology tools and a keen ability to deliver client specific solutions. Responsible for delivering integrated, customized travel management to help corporations manage and improve their travel investment.

What You’ll Do:

• Drive new sales from prospective clients within a given territory and spend segment.

• Achieve new monthly sales, transaction and Key Performance Indicator targets.

• Maintain accurate records, such as daily activity and pipeline progress.

• Develop deep knowledge of and sell core Amex GBT products and solutions by creating and delivering compelling and relevant presentations, demonstrating the value of partnering with Amex GBT, and highlighting key pillars of the value proposition aligned to the prospects goals.

• Razor-sharp focus on prospecting, presenting, contracting, and ensuring implementation of accounts, and managing new signings through the first 13 months of activation.

• Documents and communicates the Return On Investment of proposed solutions, identifying unanticipated positive outcomes or benefit.

• Gains a commitment from the prospect to move forward by asking for the business and successfully managing objections.

• Overcomes objections and resistance to proposed solutions with key prospect decision makers and mobilizes them to action

• Uses innovative and compelling rationale to overcome complex prospect barriers, enabling mutually-beneficial outcomes.

• Sell with integrity and appropriately track prospect data to ensure a coordinated and consistent client experience, in alignment with compliance and internal partner business requirements.

What We’re Looking For :

• Deep industry knowledge, strong industry relationships and a strong industry reputation.

• A consultative selling approach, knowledge of the Travel industry and the ability to sell client specific based solutions is a plus.

• Provide coordinated travel solutions in both the online and offline environments to help corporations manage and optimize their travel spend/investment.

• A strategic sales approach and through process and purchase savings. The individual will be responsible for building and maintaining relationships with key internal partners along with building and developing senior level client contacts to work and contribute in a team approach.

• Ability to travel up to 50%

Location

United States - Illinois - Virtual Location

The US national annual base salary range for this position is from $70,000 to $140,000. The national range provided includes the base salary that GBT expects to pay for the role. Actual base salary will be based on factors including the scope and complexity of the role and the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, knowledge, and work location.

In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for either our Annual Incentive Award plan, which rewards participants based on company and individual performance, or eligible for one of our metric-driven Sales Incentive Plans (certain sales roles only). An eligible employee can only participate in one of these plans during an eligible period. This role is also eligible for awards under the company Equity Incentive Plan, which is designed to align participants' interests with those of shareholders. For information about our comprehensive US benefits programs and eligibility, please review our Benefits-at-a-Glance document.

Benefits at a glance (https://explorer.amexglobalbusinesstravel.com/rs/346-POJ-129/images/GBT_2023BenefitsAtAGlance_Without_Rates_Final.pdf)

The #TeamGBT Experience

Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.

• Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and more.

• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.

• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with global tuition assistance, access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.

• We strive to champion Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in every aspect of our business at GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global Inclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and action.

• Wellbeing resources to support mental and emotional health for you and your immediate family.

• And much more!

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, gender identity (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, disability, veteran status, citizenship or marital status. It is our policy to maintain an equal-opportunity environment free from intimidation, harassment or bias for our candidates, colleagues, clients and suppliers.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. Please, let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the hiring process. For more details, please consult GBT Recruitment Privacy Statement (https://www.amexglobalbusinesstravel.com/gbt-recruitment-privacy-statement/) .

What if I don’t meet every requirement? If you’re passionate about our mission and believe you’d be a phenomenal addition to our team, don’t worry about “checking every box;" please apply anyway. You may be exactly the person we’re looking for!

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