The Senior Sales Executive is responsible for driving sales strategies, managing customer relationships, and selling UL products in the automotive and battery industry, with an emphasis on technical credibility and closing sales.
JOB DESCRIPTION
QUALIFICATIONS
What we offer:
Total Rewards: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated annual compensation for this position is $155,000. - 186,000. which includes a base salary of $100,000. - $120,000. and 100% on target performance. Members of the sales function are eligible to participate in the UL Solutions Sales Incentive Plan. The annual target incentive for this position is 55% of the base salary, paid quarterly, and is contingent upon performance. Compensation is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors.
This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).
The application deadline for this position is 3/25/2026
Learn More:
Curious? To learn more about us and the work we do, visit our company page www.UL.com
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- Candidate must reside in Detroit metro area
- Plans sales strategy and maintains ongoing plan to prioritize portfolio of accounts and maintain relationships throughout the year.
- Interfaces with customers to promote and sell UL products and services.
- Uses technical credibility to build relationships with buyers and centers of influence.
- Under minimal guidance, drives sales process from beginning to end, leveraging support from Sales Support Specialists and Inside Sales Executives when necessary.
- Proactively manages customer to ensure renewal of services where applicable.
- Continuously explore and develop opportunities to sell specialty product / services.
- Establishes strong connects with new logo prospects from inbound and outbound channels to qualify their needs, understand decision-makers, and land new customers.
- Proactively engages in discovery, opportunity identification, proposals, and closing for sales of core UL products and services.
- Leverages technical support (engineers) when customer has a qualified need.
- Creates pipeline of new logo prospects to supplement existing account activities, owns new logo process through close of sale.
- Brings in additional resources when advantageous to support sales process, and delegates leadership of the sale to Technical Inside Sales Executives for highly technical or specialized products / services.
- Transitions implementation to success / fulfillment teams after sales have been closed to ensure seamless service delivery.
- Where applicable, supports development of GAM and SAM multi-year account plans in TIC by providing insight on area of specialization (specific product/ service).
- Actions on opportunities to sell specialty product / services.
- Works with the remaining account managers on discovery and opportunity identification for assigned specialty products / services.
- Works under minimal guidance of account managers (GAMs, SAMs) to seamlessly work with customers throughout the sales cycle.
- Provides expert input to SAM and GAM during account planning process on potential growth opportunities within assigned solution area.
QUALIFICATIONS
- In-depth knowledge of Automotive and Battery Industry.
- University Degree in a related discipline preferred
- 6+ years of related discipline experience or demonstrated competency
- Extensive knowledge of company policies and sales processes.
- Requires the ability to gain cooperation of others, conducting presentations of technical information concerning specific projects or schedules to senior level management and customers.
- Significant business travel and work outside of the office is required.
What we offer:
Total Rewards: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated annual compensation for this position is $155,000. - 186,000. which includes a base salary of $100,000. - $120,000. and 100% on target performance. Members of the sales function are eligible to participate in the UL Solutions Sales Incentive Plan. The annual target incentive for this position is 55% of the base salary, paid quarterly, and is contingent upon performance. Compensation is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors.
This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).
The application deadline for this position is 3/25/2026
Learn More:
Curious? To learn more about us and the work we do, visit our company page www.UL.com
#LI-JK3
#LI-Remote
Top Skills
Automotive Industry Knowledge
Battery Technology
Customer Relationship Management
Sales Strategy
Technical Sales
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