Sales Graduate

Symphony ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

Five years ago we set out to build a secure and compliant collaboration platform, preserving usability and functionality. Today, our unique security architecture is a key differentiator and remains our highest priority. Symphony builds enterprise collaboration for the heavily regulated and high stakes financial services industry. Making our platform secure is absolutely mandatory. Together, with our investors and customers, we designed an architecture that puts privacy, control, and compliance at the forefront, while optimizing for ease of deployment and use. We launched our service in 2016. Since then we have evolved into the largest connected trusted community in financial services. Today, we are proud to enable secure team collaboration for over 500K financial services professionals. Our Sales graduate program offers you the unrivaled opportunity to join a vibrant, fast growing organization that is helping shape the future of financial markets. The program is a stepping stone into the world of financial markets and offers the opportunity to learn about all stages of the sales lifecycle. As a sales organization, we spend our time with our clients understanding their business goals and exceeding their expectations. Guided by curiosity, we work to understand our customers' workflows and seek ways to help them become more efficient in their operation. We work in a fast-paced, rapidly changing market, and to be successful it's crucial we stay one step ahead. Knowing our customers, pre-empting their needs and presenting them with ground breaking solutions, before they even know they need them, is how we will continue to succeed. We're discovering new business leads by making prospecting calls and networking. RESPONSIBILITIES * Learn about our offering and be able to conduct product demos * Partner with senior sales representatives for end-to-end sales pipeline management * Preparation of pitch materials and proposal writing * Actively on-board new clients * Support sales campaigns execution and reporting * Support customer facing events REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS * A Bachelor's degree (or above), or relevant work experience * Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills * Demonstrable interest in financial markets, and the aspiration to work in the financial services industry * Exceptional communication skills (both written and verbal) * Aptitude to learn and adapt quickly in a rapidly changing environment * Deep ambition to pursue a client-facing career, with a strong interest in relationship management and sales ABOUT SYMPHONY: Symphony is a secure, cloud-based workflow platform helping individuals, teams, and companies improve their productivity while maintaining the highest standards of data security and regulatory compliance. The company started out in the demanding world of global finance, bringing secure collaboration to the biggest banks and asset managers. The challenges honed the company's focus and spurred refinement and innovation of its technology. As new workplace challenges emerge, Symphony pledges to help its clients conquer them. Today, Symphony is trusted by over 400 financial services companies including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, BlackRock, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Wells Fargo, UBS, Societe Generale. The business is well funded and its investors are also customers, so Symphony is uniquely positioned for a bright future. The company is truly global with offices and customers all around the world, offering employees a unique global workplace and perspective. Employee satisfaction is important to the company's leadership team. In 2019, 82% of employees said they were proud to work for the company. Symphony is a fun place to work where individual and team achievement is celebrated. BENEFITS AND PERKS*: * Regional specific competitive benefits * Build your own Benefits (BYOB) perk COMPENSATION: * Competitive salary * Bonus Plan * Benefits and Perks vary based on location . Symphony reserves the right of ownership for all unsolicited resumes submitted for this requisition and is not responsible for any fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Note: If considered for a position you will be subject to a criminal background check. A conviction is not an automatic bar to employment. Each case will be considered on its own merits. The nature of the offense, the date of the offense, the surrounding circumstances, the relevance of the offense to the position(s) applied for, and any pattern of offenses may, however, be considered. Any information provided to us will be processed by Symphony in compliance with applicable data privacy laws and regulations, including but not limited to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). Please refer to our Candidate Portal Policy for further information about how Symphony processes your personal data, Symphony's legal basi