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Lead Strategic Sales Executive

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Senior level
Drive end-to-end new business sales for UKG cloud solutions across the UK and Ireland, targeting organizations with 500–2,500 employees. Responsibilities include outbound prospecting, lead qualification, stakeholder management, consultative selling, negotiation, and deal closure across 3–12-month sales cycles. The role requires strategic business and financial acumen, strong communication and relationship management skills, a hunter mentality, teamwork, and occasional customer travel.
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Why UKG:  

At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That’s what we do.

We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you’ll get flexibility that’s real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters—and so do you.
About the Role
An exciting new opportunity has arisen in UKG to drive end to end new business sales in the UK&I market of our Cloud solutions (based in the UK or Ireland). Selling to businesses with between 500 -> 2500 employees, with a sales cycle of around 3-12 months, the role would cover all aspects of the sales cycle from outbound prospecting and inbound enquiries to customer negotiation and deal closing.
Responsibilities include:
• Outbound prospection and transforming leads into productive business outcomes; manage and close existing deals while cultivating, qualifying and developing new opportunities.
• Communicate UKG value proposition via phone, web interaction selling, e-mail communication and face to face meetings.
• Identify critical business issues and align UKG values accordingly.
• Effectively manage relevant stakeholders throughout all stages of the sales cycle.
• Articulate the value of UKG solutions in relation to business challenges.
• Manage multiple concurrent sales cycles within customer, tying them all together with strategic vision and focus.
• This role would include occasional travel to customers and other company offices.
About You
• 5+ years’ experience in end-to-end sales, ideally within software sales
• An excellent telephone manner and good communication skills are essential, together with a friendly and flexible approach. Confidence in cold and prospecting activities and warm calling.
• You must have good business and financial acumen and be able to lead on a strategic vision. As well as trusted relationship management skills
• Self-motivated and determined mindset.
• Able to fit into a working atmosphere that is very much geared towards teamwork
• New business/hunter mentality.

Company Overview:


UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.


UKG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including the recruitment process.     

Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process

For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email [email protected]

The base salary for this position is £75,000 annually, with the opportunity to significantly increase total earnings through a performance-based incentive compensation plan. The plan may provide for the payment of commissions and restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation.  The base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge, and work location. Learn more about UKG’s benefits and rewards at https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits  

UKG Bracknell, England Office

Capitol, Olbury, Bracknell, United Kingdom

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