Job Opportunities at Thomson Reuters

Job Description

Role Responsibilities:

• Establish trusted relationships: Call on Legal customers in corporate, professional and government across Africa leveraging your consultative approach, sales skills and excellent business skills
• Account Management of existing professional and government clients
• Adopt value based approach: Demonstrate the value of the products to prospective decision-makers through informed conversations
• Drive sales in assigned territory: Attain assigned pipeline target and sales quotas
• Complete Reporting: Submit sales forecasting and performance reports on a regular basis.
• Collaborate with clients, sales team and delivery/operations throughout the sales cycle to design and build compelling, high-quality sales presentations, proposals, etc
• Thoroughly analyze and understand current and potential client needs and objectives in order to successfully determine the appropriate solution

Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge And Skills

• Bachelors degree or diploma, Law and Legal Research would be advantageous
• Minimum 2 years of sales experience, preferable in a consultative role such as software or professional services, business-to-business environment, with track record of exceeding quota.
• Understanding of the legal market and legal industry as a whole is desirable and demonstrated ability to understand business development with corporate, professional and government customers across Africa.
• Good prospecting and networking skills
• Self-motivated, takes initiatives to learn of new sales opportunities/products, and manages time productively.
• Strong oral/written communication skills.
• Proficient in MS Office
• Excellent time management and presentation skills;
• Experience with software technologies
• Experience at use of CRM and sales management systems
• Ability to build relationships with, and influence all levels within an organization, including senior management.
• Collaboration/Partnership - team oriented, generous with sharing best practices and feedback
• Customer-centric mentality
• Integrity: operates honestly and with high standard of ethics
• Delivering results - focused and able to take initiative, motivated, self-starter

Thomson Reuters provides professionals with the intelligence, technology and human expertise they need to find trusted answers. We enable professionals in the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, and media markets to make the decisions that matter most, all powered by the world's most trusted news organization.

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Job Description

• Provides more complex operational support to employees and first line managers with some direction.
• Knowledge of core Human Resource related topics and application of fundamentals.
• Responsible for the full scope of HR activities and the implementation of corporate policies.
• Focused on improving service delivery.
• May lead project sub teams or have accountability for contributions to project team.
• May manage basic to medium complexity ER cases.
• May have higher level of exposure to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provides operational support and advice to the wider HR community and employees in the delivery of the HR cycle i.e. bonus/pay review, Talent Management, Performance Management, and Employee Survey.
• Imparts knowledge (policy, process and application) in all HR disciplines to first line managers.
• Works independently and or closely with HR specialists to help resolve queries which arise directly from the business.
• May work in a specialist group where tasks are driven by the specifics of this HR function.
• Create, protects and files written correspondence and data associated with employees.
• Develops analyses reports independently or working with HR systems team or third party provider.
• Will provide support to a specific BU as well as a general HR team.
• Contributes to a project as a team member, and may take ownership of certain elements of the
• project, providing support and input to actions and overall objectives.
• Advises employee and first line managers in Employee Relations activity whilst keeping senior colleagues appraised

Thomson Reuters provides professionals with the intelligence, technology and human expertise they need to find trusted answers. We enable professionals in the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, and media markets to make the decisions that matter most, all powered by the world's most trusted news organization.