UL
Sales Executive - Built Environment
UL, Northbrook, Illinois, us, 60065
This role is 100% remote and requires limited regional travel.
Candidates must currently reside in Illinois.
Support planning of sales strategy and maintains ongoing plan to prioritize portfolio of accounts and maintain relationships throughout the year. Interfaces with customers primarily remotely (video, phone, email) to promote and sell UL Solutions Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) services.
Use technical credibility to build relationships with buyers and centers of influence.
Drive sales process from beginning to end, leveraging support from Sales Support Specialists and Inside Sales Executives when necessary.
Follow up with customer to ensure renewal of services where applicable.
Action on opportunities to sell testing to Lighting Industry
Meet with new logo prospects from inbound and outbound channels to qualify their needs, understand decision-makers, and land new customers.
Support discovery, opportunity identification, proposals, and closing for sales of core UL products and services.
Leverage technical support when customer has a qualified need.
Create and maintain pipeline of new logo prospects to supplement existing account activities, owns new logo process through close of sale
Bring in additional resources when advantageous to support sales process, and delegate leadership of the sale to Technical Inside Sales Executives for highly technical services in Lighting industry
Transition implementation to success / fulfillment teams after sales have been closed to ensure seamless service delivery.
Support development of Sales Leadership's multi-year account plans in TIC by providing insight on Lighting Industry
Support remaining account managers on discovery and opportunity identification for Lighting industry
Work under the close guidance of account managers to seamlessly work with customers throughout the sales cycle.
Provide any necessary information to account managers during account planning process on potential growth opportunities within assigned solution area.
What you’ll experience working at UL:
Mission: For UL Solutions, corporate and social responsibility isn’t new. Making the world a safer, more secure and sustainable place has been our business model for the last 130 years and is deeply engrained in everything we do.
People: Ask any UL Solutions employee what they love most about working here, and you’ll almost always hear, “the people.” Going beyond what is possible is the standard at UL. We’re able to deliver the best because we employ the best.
Interesting work: Every day is different for us here as we eagerly anticipate the next innovation that our customers’ create. We’re inspired to take on the challenge that will transform how people live, work and play. And as a global company, in many roles, you will get international experience working with colleagues around the world.
Grow & achieve: We learn, work and grow together with targeted development, reward and recognition programs as well as our very own UL University that offers extensive training programs for employees at all stages, including a technical training track for applicable roles.
Total Rewards: The target annual pay range for this position is $108,500. - 124,000. which includes a base salary of $70,000. - $80,000. and 100% on target performance. Members of the sales function are eligible to participate in the UL Solutions Sales Incentive Plan. The annual target incentive for this position is 55% of the base salary, paid quarterly, and is contingent upon performance.
Employees are eligible for health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental & financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country, for the relevant position level. We also provide employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours). Internal applicants with questions related to the Total Rewards for this position should submit a ticket via askHR for more insights. Plans sales strategy and maintains ongoing plan to prioritize portfolio of accounts and maintain relationships throughout the year.
The application deadline for this position is 5/19/2025
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Bachelors and/or graduate degree
2- 4 years of related sales experience.
Deep knowledge and experience with the Building Materials, Construction or Commercial Real Estate industries
Proven ability to meet and exceed sales targets.
Business acumen and deep understanding of business sales processes.
Proficient in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook), and CRM software.
UL LLC has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To assure full implementation of this equal employment policy, we will take steps to assure that:
Persons are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, color, age, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, religion, creed, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship, ancestry, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy, marital or familial status, or any other protected category under applicable law.
Candidates must currently reside in Illinois.
Support planning of sales strategy and maintains ongoing plan to prioritize portfolio of accounts and maintain relationships throughout the year. Interfaces with customers primarily remotely (video, phone, email) to promote and sell UL Solutions Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) services.
Use technical credibility to build relationships with buyers and centers of influence.
Drive sales process from beginning to end, leveraging support from Sales Support Specialists and Inside Sales Executives when necessary.
Follow up with customer to ensure renewal of services where applicable.
Action on opportunities to sell testing to Lighting Industry
Meet with new logo prospects from inbound and outbound channels to qualify their needs, understand decision-makers, and land new customers.
Support discovery, opportunity identification, proposals, and closing for sales of core UL products and services.
Leverage technical support when customer has a qualified need.
Create and maintain pipeline of new logo prospects to supplement existing account activities, owns new logo process through close of sale
Bring in additional resources when advantageous to support sales process, and delegate leadership of the sale to Technical Inside Sales Executives for highly technical services in Lighting industry
Transition implementation to success / fulfillment teams after sales have been closed to ensure seamless service delivery.
Support development of Sales Leadership's multi-year account plans in TIC by providing insight on Lighting Industry
Support remaining account managers on discovery and opportunity identification for Lighting industry
Work under the close guidance of account managers to seamlessly work with customers throughout the sales cycle.
Provide any necessary information to account managers during account planning process on potential growth opportunities within assigned solution area.
What you’ll experience working at UL:
Mission: For UL Solutions, corporate and social responsibility isn’t new. Making the world a safer, more secure and sustainable place has been our business model for the last 130 years and is deeply engrained in everything we do.
People: Ask any UL Solutions employee what they love most about working here, and you’ll almost always hear, “the people.” Going beyond what is possible is the standard at UL. We’re able to deliver the best because we employ the best.
Interesting work: Every day is different for us here as we eagerly anticipate the next innovation that our customers’ create. We’re inspired to take on the challenge that will transform how people live, work and play. And as a global company, in many roles, you will get international experience working with colleagues around the world.
Grow & achieve: We learn, work and grow together with targeted development, reward and recognition programs as well as our very own UL University that offers extensive training programs for employees at all stages, including a technical training track for applicable roles.
Total Rewards: The target annual pay range for this position is $108,500. - 124,000. which includes a base salary of $70,000. - $80,000. and 100% on target performance. Members of the sales function are eligible to participate in the UL Solutions Sales Incentive Plan. The annual target incentive for this position is 55% of the base salary, paid quarterly, and is contingent upon performance.
Employees are eligible for health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental & financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country, for the relevant position level. We also provide employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours). Internal applicants with questions related to the Total Rewards for this position should submit a ticket via askHR for more insights. Plans sales strategy and maintains ongoing plan to prioritize portfolio of accounts and maintain relationships throughout the year.
The application deadline for this position is 5/19/2025
#LI-JK3
#LI-Remote
Bachelors and/or graduate degree
2- 4 years of related sales experience.
Deep knowledge and experience with the Building Materials, Construction or Commercial Real Estate industries
Proven ability to meet and exceed sales targets.
Business acumen and deep understanding of business sales processes.
Proficient in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook), and CRM software.
UL LLC has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To assure full implementation of this equal employment policy, we will take steps to assure that:
Persons are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, color, age, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, religion, creed, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship, ancestry, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy, marital or familial status, or any other protected category under applicable law.