Description

Overview

About us

We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence.

As a trusted voice for many of the world's most successful organizations, we use our knowledge to advance safety and performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions to tackle global transformations.

About the role

Are you looking to lead the growth of Supply Chain Assurance services in an innovative, digitally enabled, purpose driven business? Are you motivated to support customers to achieve business success and mitigate risks in their businesses and their extended supply chains?

We're recruiting for an energetic, driven and growth-oriented Salesperson with proven consultative selling experience to support our expansion in USA and Canada. This role will have to understand client's needs and pain points to successfully sell our complete suite of services, helping in most cases to design customized solutions in close collaboration with the delivery and technical team.

This position can be remote from anywhere in the Continental U.S.

This is an exciting opportunity to take an active role to achieve growth as a business developer, while leading the design and delivery of projects, ensure service excellence for clients and develop long pasting partnerships with some of the most iconic global brands helping them to achieve business success and mitigate risks in their businesses and their extended supply chains.

In this role, you will get the opportunity to engage and get supported by a wide network of experienced supply chain leaders around the world and be part of an aggressive expansion plan starting from a solid base, but with countless opportunities to shape the business in a quasi-start up setting that will provide a launching path for your career as a sales leader.

You will be expected to lead the growth of our sales and delivery for a wide range of services and customized solutions supporting the F&B industry and other industries including:

• Supplier inspection and verification
• Compliance to customers' own protocols
• Execution or risk mitigation check lists
• Social audits and human rights due diligence
• Independently develop and grow your own pipeline and progress opportunities across the different sales stages
• Proactively seeking to identify customer needs, developing tailored solutions and selling these to new and existing clients
• Coordinating projects, ensuring they are executed to clients' expectations, on time, on budget and to DNV quality standards
• Leading and communicating effectively within the other team members and clients
• Introducing services from your own/existing discipline(s) to new clients and new services to existing clients
• Lead projects with an End-to-End accountability from prospecting to designing to selling and finally delivering as well as helping to grow our business through the following activities:
  • Responsible to achieve a sales target and oversee and deliver projects according to client's expectations. The incumbent will have sales and business development responsibility for both existing and new clients.
  • This is an individual contributor role expected to operate with a high level of autonomy in close collaboration with other team members and the global team while managing the sales and delivery of the projects.
  • This role will also have an active participation in developing the go to market activities for supply chain and risk management services.

--Please note that this is not a role selling food safety or management system certification.--

What we offer

• Generous paid time off (vacation, sick days, company holidays, personal days)
• Multiple Medical and Dental benefit plans to choose from, Vision benefits
• Spending accounts FSA, Dependent Care, Commuter Benefits, company-seeded HSA
• Employer-paid, therapist-led, virtual care services
• 401(k) with company match
• Company provided life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability benefits
• Education reimbursement program
• Flexible work schedule with hybrid/remote opportunities
• Charitable Matched Giving and Volunteer Rewards through our Impact Program
• Volunteer time off (VTO) paid by the company
• Career advancement opportunities
• Sales Incentive Scheme

Benefits may vary based on position, tenure, contract, or grade level.*

DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity.

DNV is a proud equal-opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, or business need, without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. DNV is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. US applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact the North America Recruitment Department (hrrecruitment.northamerica@dnv.com). Information received relating to accommodations will be addressed confidentially

For California, Washington, New York, Washington, D.C., Illinois, and Maryland: "DNV provides a reasonable range of compensation for this role. The actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors, including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. For the states of California, Washington, New York, Washington, D.C., Illinois, and Maryland only, the starting pay range for this role is $85000 - $105000 annual.

Deadline to apply: June 5, 2026

About you

What Is Required:

The successful candidate will have the following experience and attributes:

• High school diploma or GED
• 2 years of experience in sales and business development in supply chain and/or services, within a consultancy environment.
• 2 years of experience leading & delivering consulting services as a trusted advisor and thought leader to clients
• Proven project management, design and delivering service excellence.
• Entrepreneurial drive to proactively initiate new initiatives, grow from a small base and operate under quick experimentation high ambiguity environment
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% Domestically and up to 10% internationally.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to provide clear, authoritative technical guidance to internal and external stakeholders
• We conduct pre-employment background and drug screening.

Key Competencies

• Sales proven ability to sell in a consultative manner through the entire sales cycle from client outreach to bringing knowledge and expertise to inspire the client through scoping of needs, proposing and closing deals consistently to deliver on target sales performance.
• Initiative & Responsibility - acts on own initiative, makes things happen and accepts responsibility for the results.
• Analysis & Judgement - quickly understands and analyses complex issues and problems; comes up with sound and rational judgements.
• Professional Expertise - demonstrates specialist knowledge and expertise in supply chain risk management, sustainability, and other related areas.
• Effective Communication - communicates in a clear, precise and structured way; speaks with authority and conviction; presents effectively. Builds network.
• Constructive Teamwork - co-operates well with others; shares knowledge, experience and information; supports others in the pursuit of team goals.

*Immigration-related employment benefits, for example visa sponsorship, are not available for this position*

What we offer

• Generous paid time off (vacation, sick days, company holidays, personal days)
• Multiple Medical and Dental benefit plans to choose from, Vision benefits
• Spending accounts FSA, Dependent Care, Commuter Benefits, company-seeded HSA
• Employer-paid, therapist-led, virtual care services
• 401(k) with company match
• Company provided life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability benefits
• Education reimbursement program
• Flexible work schedule with hybrid/remote opportunities
• Charitable Matched Giving and Volunteer Rewards through our Impact Program
• Volunteer time off (VTO) paid by the company
• Career advancement opportunities
• Sales Incentive Scheme

Benefits may vary based on position, tenure, contract, or grade level.*

DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity.

DNV is a proud equal-opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, or business need, without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. DNV is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. US applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact the North America Recruitment Department (hrrecruitment.northamerica@dnv.com). Information received relating to accommodations will be addressed confidentially

For California, Washington, New York, Washington, D.C., Illinois, and Maryland: "DNV provides a reasonable range of compensation for this role. The actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors, including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. For the states of California, Washington, New York, Washington, D.C., Illinois, and Maryland only, the starting pay range for this role is $85000 - $105000 annual.

Deadline to apply: June 5, 2026

About you

What Is Required:

The successful candidate will have the following experience and attributes:

• High school diploma or GED
• 2 years of experience in sales and business development in supply chain and/or services, within a consultancy environment.
• 2 years of experience leading & delivering consulting services as a trusted advisor and thought leader to clients
• Proven project management, design and delivering service excellence.
• Entrepreneurial drive to proactively initiate new initiatives, grow from a small base and operate under quick experimentation high ambiguity environment
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% Domestically and up to 10% internationally.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to provide clear, authoritative technical guidance to internal and external stakeholders
• We conduct pre-employment background and drug screening.

Key Competencies

• Sales proven ability to sell in a consultative manner through the entire sales cycle from client outreach to bringing knowledge and expertise to inspire the client through scoping of needs, proposing and closing deals consistently to deliver on target sales performance.
• Initiative & Responsibility - acts on own initiative, makes things happen and accepts responsibility for the results.
• Analysis & Judgement - quickly understands and analyses complex issues and problems; comes up with sound and rational judgements.
• Professional Expertise - demonstrates specialist knowledge and expertise in supply chain risk management, sustainability, and other related areas.
• Effective Communication - communicates in a clear, precise and structured way; speaks with authority and conviction; presents effectively. Builds network.
• Constructive Teamwork - co-operates well with others; shares knowledge, experience and information; supports others in the pursuit of team goals.

*Immigration-related employment benefits, for example visa sponsorship, are not available for this position*