Enterprise Data Sales - Sales Development Representative (SDR) - Tokyo
Bloomberg
Sales & Business Development
Tokyo, Japan
Posted on Mar 25, 2025
Bloomberg Enterprise Data Sales (EDS) is experiencing a period of unprecedented growth. Our Data and Technology solutions focus on the acquisition, organisation and distribution of content around Financial firms. With the help of award winning product innovations at Bloomberg, we work in partnership with our clients, taking out the heavy lifting, enabling them to do more with less.
What's the Role?
We are looking for a Sales Development professional to join our Sales team in Tokyo. The successful candidate will be responsible for end-to-end sales activities from lead generation, new business strategies and marketing, managing the day-to-day relationship of current accounts as well as hunting for growth opportunities and closing business.
We'll trust you to:
- Generate leads for the Enterprise Data Sales team in Japan
- Engage in frequent prospecting calls to existing accounts and new businesses to develop sales opportunities
- Build the sales pipeline and identify new opportunities to grow revenue within existing accounts
- Stay informed about the evolving Enterprise Sales business and the financial markets to spot trends, look for new opportunities and establish credibility with our clients by understanding their business
- Establish and maintain efficient processes to assist in the smooth day-to-day operations of sales administration
You'll also leverage this knowledge to build and maintain credibility with clients, identify gaps, recommend solutions, and deliver on revenue-generating goals.
You'll need to have:
- Minimum of 2 years of client facing experience in financial services, financial technology or data focused technology companies
- Experience selling financial technology and/or data solutions to financial institutions
- Experience in driving multiple sales engagements starting from pipeline validation, client discovery, solution scoping, to deal closure
- Outstanding client service experience, relationship management skills and sales aptitude
- Experience in managing technical and data content sales deals within an account until close and maintaining ongoing relationships with clients
- Working knowledge of the financial industry and its data needs
- Consultative and solution sales skills
- Demonstrated continuous career growth within an organisation
- Strong presentation and communication skills in English and Japanese
- Ability to travel, occasionally across the Asia region
We'd love to see:
- Technical skills with Cloud solutions such as AWS, Azure, GCP
- Familiarity with various data ingestion and delivery models such as Cloud, SFTP, API
- Knowledge of the Bloomberg product suite
- Knowledge of our customers businesses (their customers and how they make money) and technology stacks and workflows. And an ability to relate this to an Enterprise Sales conversation.
If this sounds like you:
Apply if you think we're a good match. We'll get in touch to let you know what the next steps are, but in the meantime feel free to have a look at this: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/solution/data-and-content/
Why Bloomberg?
We’re individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and experiences who take on big challenges and create even bigger impact through our work. We’re interested in what makes you you, and how we can create opportunities for you to channel your unique, personal energy and grow to your fullest potential.
Learn more about our office and benefits:
Tokyo | www.bloomberg.com/tokyo