Outside Sales Representative

Are you a highly driven natural sales person that loves to connect with others, learn their needs, and then come up with a plan to solve them? It’s not unusual to be in a current or past job that held you back from having a true impact on the business because of legacy processes or management around you that didn’t allow you to flex your natural talents and creativity. Join LeadingIT and be a part of our growing company where you can truly make a big impact every day.

Description

We are looking for an outside sales rockstar  to drive the business development strategy for LeadingIT. This person helps to develop strategic relationships with potential clients and partners. This person oversees business development initiatives to guide them from the opportunity lead phase to the contract phase.

What this role will entail:

• Run end-to-end pitch process, including assessing initial opportunities, collaborating with key internal stakeholders on pitch deliverables, interfacing with prospective clients, and creating written RFP responses.
• Build and maintain new business pipeline relationships with intermediaries and prospective clients
• Responsible for new sales
• Strong presentation, verbal and written skills as well as proven ability to develop well-written documents and presentations
• Participate in strategic development of new business

What we need from you (system requirements):

• DRIVEN to succeed at work and in all of life, hard work required
• ACCOUNTABLE to our clients as well as our company 
• STAY POSITIVE with a solution focus. 
• Desire for EXCELLENCE in what we do, all day every day. 
• HUMBLY CONFIDENT you can make it happen, and if not, able to ask for help.  
• Proven track record to grow new business
• Success generating business with digital and offline tactics (cold calling, event networking etc.)
• Excellent public speaking and presentation skills
• Deep understanding and awareness of aligning consumer goals and business goals

More about us and where we are going:

Our goal is to become the BEST cybersecurity and IT provider across Chicagoland. We PROTECT growing Chicagoland organizations from malicious cybersecurITy threats and subpar nickel + dime IT support. We have doubled our company (team of 50+ with 200+ clients) in the last two years and will continue to grow at fast pace – planning to triple across the next three years.

• We have a fast-paced environment with ZERO micromanaging, we assess RESULTS.
• We gather feedback and adjust how we operate based on YOUR ideas.
• We CARE about our team and our clients and understand the need for flexibility with life+work.

THREE great locations in Woodstock, IL as well as downtown Chicago (both are just off Metra UPNW line) and Manteno, IL and/or some flexibility to work from anywhere.

Our all-inclusive total compensation and benefits package for this role includes:

• Salary is based on your experience, drive and the value you can bring our company; and is in the range of $55,000+ year + commissions (100% of first month fee)
• We provide 100% company paid health, dental, life, and vision benefits – value of $5,000 to $17,000/year
• We match 5% of your contributions to Guideline 401k – value of 5% of salary.
• Open Door PTO policy
• Company provided gear (notebook + iPhone) as well as company clothing.

Our hiring process:

• Submit your application
• AND complete a communication survey (7 min) REQ’D (Please check your spam folder. Sometimes the email goes there instead of your inbox.)
• If we like what we see, we will reach out to schedule a phone interview (20 min)
• If that goes well, we’ll schedule an in person interview and go from there

For a more in depth look at our jobs/benefits/hiring timeline check out www.goleadingit.com/careers