Business Development Executive

What makes Gartner Sales a GREAT fit for you? When you join Gartner, you’ll set your career on track for outstanding achievement with a company that knows no limits. We’re the world’s leading research and advisory company, steering clients toward the right decisions with business and technology insights they can’t find anywhere else.

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Our sales culture is based on recognition and personal development. Our team earn a competitive base salary, uncapped commissions and exceptional benefits — along with top training and support, and recognition for high performers. If you’re coachable, persistent, smart, executive‑savvy, and looking for your next great adventure, Gartner is the place for you.

You’ll be supported to reach your goals by 3 of Gartner’s most successful Sales Leaders, just some of the awards they’ve won recently include:

• Multiple Awards for 2020 / 2023 / 2024 Global Top Achiever
• Multiple Awards for 2021 / 2022 / 2023 / 2024 Eagle Achiever (Top 1% of Gartner’s Sales Associates GLOBALLY)
• Multiple Awards for 2018 – 2024 consecutive Winner’s Circle Achievers
• ✨ One of the highest percentages of consistent Winners Circle Attainment across Gartner GLOBALLY

Worldwide IT spending is expected to total $5 trillion in 2024, an increase of 6.8% from 2023. You’ll partner with Enterprise Technology clients who have an impressive $1B+ in annual revenue to help shape the future of technology across the world, by supporting clients across the private sector in growing their business and addressing their most critical priorities.

Our Business Development teams play a critical role in expanding Gartner’s presence across the global market. Gartner Business Development Executives strategically acquire new clients by cultivating trust‑based relationships with C‑level executives to understand their mission‑critical priorities and uncover opportunities to deliver client‑value through the lens of the industry in which they operate. Gartner Business Developers drive the full sales cycle, from identifying prospects to closure and transition of new accounts to the account management team.

Our Business Development teams are relentless about building trust‑based, value add relationships with clients, delivering long‑term client value, and building their book of business over time. While driven for results, they are also highly collaborative with account management teams in handing off business and ensuring an exceptional client experience.

• Seek out and drive new business opportunities with new‑to‑Gartner organizations across your territory, from initial client outreach to close, targeting Large Enterprise C‑Level stakeholders.
• Convert viable prospects into active Gartner clients, owning the full sales conversation and negotiation, through to the transition of new clients to the account management team.
• Align the right combination of insight, guidance and practical tools to bring value to the partnership.
• Continually build a pipeline of high‑quality opportunities to deliver against your sales metrics ensuring KPI’s are met.
• Quota responsibility for your assigned territory.
• Manage complex high‑revenue sales across matrix and diverse business environments.
• Own forecasting and account planning on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis.

• 4+ years’ B2B sales / recruitment experience, preferably within complex, intangible sales environments.
• Business development or new client‑acquisition experience…