Business Development Director, Public Sector Acquisition

About this role:

Our Business Development teams play a critical role in expanding Gartner's presence across the global market. Gartner Business Development Directors 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.

Business Development Directors will be given a territory of Public Sector prospects in Germany, which may be completely new prospects with no existing spend or could be clients within other Gartner areas.

What you will do:

• Seek out and drive new business opportunities with new-to-Gartner organizations across your territory, from initial client outreach to close, targeting Public organizations.
• 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.
• 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.

What you will need:

• 8+ years' B2B sales experience, preferably within a complex, intangible sales environments.
• Business development or new-client acquisition experience in a selling role highly desired.
• Experience selling to and/or influencing C-level executives in the Public Sector.
• Proven track record meeting and exceeding sales targets.
• Proven ability to precisely manage and forecast a complex sale process.
• Willingness to conduct travel as needed.

What you will get:

• Competitive salary, generous paid time off policy, charity match program, and more!
• Collaborative, team-oriented culture that embraces diversity.
• Professional development and unlimited growth opportunities.

Who are we?
At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we've grown to more than 20,000 associates globally who support 15,000 client enterprises in 90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That's why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.