Informa is a global leader in business-to-business events, digital services, and academic research. The Deal Desk Associate will be responsible for reviewing contracts at the pre-sale stage and managing the contract process to ensure compliance and successful delivery of campaigns.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic and tactical business partner to Sales team to facilitate deals
- Ensure proper order documentation and terms before system entry and order approval
- Review and approve client-generated SOWs, PO's and IOs to support sale of media and related products to ensure compliance with company standards
- Ability to develop a thorough understanding of processes, product offerings, and appropriate terms and conditions, including but not limited to:
- Pricing models and discounting
- Revenue Recognition
- Approvals collection
- Coordinate completion of vendor procurement processes
- Ability to effectively communicate and coordinate with different internal teams involved in the campaign lifecycle (Sales enablement, Finance and Legal departments, Sales Management, and Products)
Skills
- Bachelor's degree required
- 1 to 2+ years of relevant experience
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Understanding of contracts management and commercial contracts review/support including experience working with IronClad or other CLMs
- Ability to organize and solve requests in a queue; experience with Salesforce Cases helpful, but not required
- Detail-oriented and extremely reliable – team player
- Possesses a sense of urgency as well as the ability to multi-task and prioritize
- Accurate data entry skills, problem solving ability; and
- Ability to demonstrate initiative and work independently
Benefits
- Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active colleague groups and networks promoting a positive, supportive, and collaborative work environment
- Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer with a philanthropic organization
- Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
- Time out: Open Vacation, plus 10 national holidays, and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
- Competitive benefits, including a 401k match, health, vision and dental insurance, parental leave and an ESPP offering company shares at a minimum 15% discount
- Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, free access to a wellness app and more
- Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programs
- As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world
Company Overview
Informa is a business intelligence, academic publishing, knowledge, and events group. It was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in London, England, GBR, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.informa.com.