Who is Virgin Pulse?

Virgin Pulse, founded as part of Sir Richard Branson’s famed Virgin Group, helps organizations build employee health and wellbeing into the DNA of their corporate cultures. As the only company to deliver a powerful, mobile-first digital platform infused with live services, including coaching and biometric screenings, Virgin Pulse’s takes a high-tech-meets-high-touch-approach to engage employees in improving across all aspects of their health and wellbeing, every day – from prevention and building a healthy lifestyle to condition and disease management to condition reversal, all while engaging users daily in building and sustaining healthy habits and behaviors. A global leader in health and wellbeing, Virgin Pulse is committed to helping change lives and businesses around the world for good so that people and organizations can thrive, together. Today, more than 3100 organizations across the globe are using Virgin Pulse’s solutions to improve health, employee wellbeing and engagement, reduce costs and create strong workplace cultures. 

Who are our employees? 

We’re passionate about changing lives for good. We want to make a difference in the world by helping people be their best, every day, at work and home. Our award-winning solutions support leading employers in transforming their cultures and engaging employees. But our world-class products and programs are nothing without our people – the employees who design, build, promote, sell, test and perfect the latest innovations in workplace wellbeing. Our people are our top priority and we invest in their health and happiness. At Virgin Pulse, we have so much more than a strong, supportive company culture - we have a shared vision for a healthier, happier world.

What is this role?

The Senior Regional Sales Associate sits within the New Business Development team and is responsible for securing new logos and ARR, predominately with SME’s.

In this role you will wear many hats and your attention will be crucial in the following areas:

Business Development

• Establish a wide-reaching network of new logo opportunities.
• Implement strategies to secure short and long term revenue streams.
• Work independently to secure meetings with potential new clients – 30% inbound, 70% outbound.
• Meet with the decision makers within SME’s, spending approximately 20% of your time out of the office and 80% in the office (under normal circumstances).
• Hold consultative, non-transactional meetings (face to face and video conference) with prospects across UKIMEA.
• Represent VP at exhibitions and networking events.
• Work collaboratively with Sales Managers and Directors to create opportunities with Enterprise and Strategic sized clients.
• Manage a sales pipeline, progressing prospects from lead to close.
• Strong focus on maintaining high conversion rates and thorough qualification of prospects.
• Regularly and proactively seek 360-degree feedback from peers, clients and leadership to ensure excellence in role.
• Maintain a strong knowledge of the Corporate Health & Wellbeing industry to enable consultative/collaborative and powerful client relationships.

General Administration / Operations

• Commitment to accurate CRM usage and reporting.
• Role model a commitment to remaining completely up to date with all internal processes and policies.
• Weekly personal forecasting.

What you bring to the team. 

• Minimum 2 years commercial, client facing B2B sales experience in an equivalent role.
• Bachelor Degree qualified or equivalent.
• Experience of working in a fast pace environment.
• Confident presentation capabilities.
• Proven negotiation skills.
• Experience of pipeline management.
• Good track record of delivering results and working towards sales targets.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

In order to represent the best of what we have to offer you come to us with a multitude of positive attributes including:

• Results oriented.
• Team player.
• Self-motivated and proactive.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Patient, resilient and quick thinking.
• Flexible and mature.
• Genuine interest to learn about the Corporate Health & Wellbeing industry.
• Passion for the VP purpose and mission.
• Desire to progress within sales.

Why work here? 

We believe a career should provide competitive pay and benefits, a collaborative and supportive work environment, strong employee culture and cutting-edge technology and services — so many reasons to love it here.

*We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected class status.