Locations: Fully Remote
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Additional Qualifications: 3 yearsâ experience in sales, preferably in a corporate office environment or event services company
Summary
About Stern Strategy Group
Stern Strategy Group helps the worldâs leading organizations access the ideas, expertise, and insights shaping the future. We represent more than 200 globally recognized thought leaders, including bestselling authors, former CEOs, economists, technologists, scientists, policymakers, and leading academics, many of whom are among the most sought-after experts in their fields and regularly advise senior executives, boards, investors, and governments around the world.
Our clients include Fortune 500 companies, global financial institutions, major associations, executive leadership teams, and leading conferences. We help organizations navigate leadership, AI, innovation, organizational transformation, economic uncertainty, and other critical business challenges.
What makes Stern unique is the caliber of expertise we exclusively represent. Our roster includes some of the worldâs most influential thinkers and practitioners whose ideas shape executive agendas, inform strategic decisions, and help organizations prepare for whatâs next.
The Role
This is a quota-carrying Account Executive role responsible for both new business development and account growth.
You will manage a portfolio of speakers while developing relationships with clients across corporations, associations, and conferences. Success in this role requires balancing inbound opportunity conversion, proactive outbound business development, speaker management, and long-term account growth.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building relationships, engaging with senior executives, learning new ideas, and helping organizations connect business challenges with world-class expertise.
What Youâll Do
- Own a revenue target and build a healthy pipeline through both inbound and outbound sales activities.
- Convert inbound inquiries into engagements through consultative discovery, opportunity qualification, and expert matching.
- Prospect into target accounts through outreach, referrals, networking, industry events, and social selling.
- Develop relationships with senior decision-makers across corporations, associations, and conferences.
- Expand existing client relationships by identifying new stakeholders, business units, and opportunities.
- Serve as the primary relationship manager for an assigned portfolio of speakers.
- Develop a deep understanding of your speakersâ expertise, positioning, and commercial opportunities.
- Partner with speakers to align their expertise with evolving market demand and client needs.