Senior Sales Associate

About the Role:

The S&P Dow Jones Indices sales team supports clients across the full commercial journey from first request through contract execution, entitlement and onboarding, and ongoing renewals working closely with Sales, Client Services, Finance, Product, and Legal to deliver a smooth client experience. You'll join a collaborative, fast-paced group where we share information openly, prioritise team outcomes, and look for practical ways to improve how we work.

The Impact:

In this role, you will help sales move faster and more accurately by owning key deal operations, spotting issues early, and keeping stakeholders aligned. Your attention to detail, ability to manage multiple priorities, and proactive communication will directly influence client satisfaction, renewal outcomes, and overall sales execution quality.

Responsibilities:

• Support the full sales cycle by processing sales deals and client requests accurately and on time (including licensing, entitlement, billing, renewals, and account maintenance).
• Partner with Sales to respond to and process inquiries in Salesforce, using clear guidelines while applying good judgment to resolve varied, non-routine issues.
• Manage agreement drafting and support negotiations by coordinating inputs across Sales and Legal, clarifying requirements, and keeping next steps moving.
• Collaborate with Finance, Product Management, Data Product Management, Client Services, Pricing Governance, and Legal to remove blockers, improve workflows, and raise quality through continuous improvement.
• Deliver excellent service to enhance customer satisfaction and adoption within existing accounts by actively listening, understanding the 'why' behind requests, and communicating updates clearly to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Hold weekly meetings with Sales Representatives to share KPIs, highlight risks, prioritise actions, and align on team goals.

All employees are required to work from the office a minimum of 2 days per week. We require all candidates who reach the final stage of our interview process to attend at least one in-person interview, which is ordinarily at your nearest S&P Global office. This must be completed before we can proceed to an offer.

Required Qualifications:

• An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have 2+ years of experience in client services, sales support, or similar client-facing role.
• Fluency in English and Italian.
• Proficiency with MS Office (especially Excel and PowerPoint) and Salesforce.
• Strong organisation and time-management skills - able to track multiple tasks, meet deadlines, and focus first on the highest-impact work.
• Clear, confident communication skills - able to translate and clarify sales/process information for different audiences.
• Collaborative mindset and emotional intelligence - actively listens, seeks to understand other perspectives, and builds trust with Sales and partner teams.
• Proactive, improvement-oriented approach - looks for ways to raise quality, reduce friction, and support team goals beyond assigned tasks.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting deal processes across licensing/contracting, entitlements, billing, and renewals.
• Experience with Tableau or Power BI.
• Additional European language skills.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities, resourceful, solution-oriented, and able to adapt approach using past experience and available information.

About S&P Global Dow Jones Indices:

At S&P Dow Jones Indices, we provide iconic and innovative index solutions backed by unparalleled expertise across the asset-class spectrum. By bringing transparency to the global capital markets, we empower investors everywhere to make decisions with conviction. We’re the largest global resource for index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators such as the S&P 500 ® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ® . More assets are invested in products based upon our indices than any other index provider in the world. With over USD 7.4 trillion in passively managed assets linked to our indices and over USD 11.3 trillion benchmarked to our indices, our solutions are widely considered indispensable in tracking market performance, evaluating portfolios and developing investment strategies.

S&P Dow Jones Indices is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

What's In It For You?

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