Prospects and qualifies new business opportunities through high-volume outbound calls, email, and targeted campaigns. Sets meetings for professional information products, builds prospect lists, develops early client relationships, and collaborates with sales, marketing, product, and data teams. Maintains accurate CRM records, supports upselling, and works toward activity, pipeline, meeting, and revenue targets. Requires professional communication in English and Mandarin.
Job Description:
About the Role:
As a Sales Development Representative, you will be responsible for identifying, pursuing, and securing new clients, opportunities, or markets to drive revenue growth. You will focus on prospecting, qualifying leads, building early-stage relationships, and converting new opportunities into customers or revenue-generating engagements. You will be part of the Risk Sales team and report directly to Manager, Sales Development.
About the Team:
At Dow Jones, we empower global organizations to navigate an increasingly volatile world, where geopolitical shifts, financial crime, regulatory expansion and emerging AI technologies redefine risk every day. Powered by market-leading intelligence capabilities—including Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dragonfly, Oxford Analytica, Storyful, Dow Jones Risk Journal, Factiva and Dow Jones Newswires—we deliver the trusted insights our customers need to build resilience, protect their reputations and make mission-critical decisions with confidence.
You Will:
- Call current and prospective clients to set-up meetings for our Professional Information Business suite of products.
- Work with Sales Directors, Account Executives and Sales Specialists to create sales campaigns for specific segments. Identify target groups, build prospect lists and produce qualified sales leads through targeted campaigns.
- Identify and qualify new leads to achieve and exceed personal and team revenue goals.
- Develop necessary internal relationships with all parts of the Professional Information Business team (Data Strategy, Product, Marketing & Sales).
- Maintain records of sales calls, contacts and sales campaigns in the global CRM to provide management information.
You Have:
- 0-2 years of prior experience in business development, sales, or a related industry.
- Demonstrated comfort with high-volume outbound outreach and working toward activity, pipeline and meeting targets.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage prospects professionally across phone, email and virtual channels.
- Proficiency in Excel, Word and Teams; experience with Salesforce, LinkedIn Sales Navigator or similar prospecting tools is preferred.
- Ability to utilize effective influencing strategies to gain agreement or commitment to proposed solutions in order to help advance the sales process to the next level.
- Ability to drive new business opportunities within new prospects, as well as ability to upsell to existing Dow Jones customers within a team selling environment.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Language proficiency in English and Mandarin
Our Benefits
- Comprehensive Insurance & Retirement plans
- Paid Time Off and Leaves
- Education Benefits
- Family Care Benefits
- Career Growth Programs
- Access to Dow Jones Products
- Employee Referral Program
- Employee Well-being Support & Fitness Programs
- Financial Health Programs
- Cybersecurity Protection
Equal Opportunity Employer
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Business Area:
Dow Jones - Risk SalesJob Category:
SalesUnion Status:
Non-Union roleDow Jones Singapore, Singapore, SGP Office
Singapore, Singapore
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