Sales Associate

The CD&S Sales Associate will be a vital member of the team, supporting revenue growth for CME Group Products across targeted client segments and regions. This role focuses on hands‑on client engagement, data‑driven analysis, and strategic support for the sales team's outreach and market intelligence efforts.

What you’ll get:

• Exposure to CME’s vast number of products and asset classes.
• A supportive environment that promotes career progression.
• The opportunity to work with several functional groups across departments.
• Competitive salary & comprehensive benefits package.

What you’ll do:

• Serve as a primary point of contact for client requests and handle ongoing client service needs.
• Utilize and analyze data sources to track, report, and evaluate performance against key metrics and activities.
• Execute outbound sales outreach targeting buyside, sellside, proprietary trading firms, and commercial clients.
• Collaborate with relevant product teams to support new product launches and sales initiatives.
• Research, analyze, and compile segment, market trend, and client intelligence data to enhance sales prospecting, inform decision‑making, and support new business development.
• Demonstrate proficiency in CRM systems, effectively navigating them to input and export data.
• Liaise with resources across the enterprise to facilitate the resolution of support issues.

What you’ll need:

• 0-3 years of sales experience, ideally with a strong interest in financial services.
• Detail‑oriented and self‑motivated.
• Knowledge of CRM databases (e.g., Salesforce.com) is a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, with confidence in delivering presentations.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and critical‑thinking abilities.
• Fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese preferred, but not required.

The pay range for this role is $77,000-$128,300. Actual salary offered will be dependent on a wide array of factors including but not limited to: relevant experience, skills, education and comparison to internal employees (where relevant).

• Our compensation program also includes an annual target bonus opportunity for all employees, as well as the opportunity to become an owner in the company through our broad‑based equity program.

Through our benefits program, we strive to offer flexibility, value and choice. From comprehensive health coverage, to a retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active pension plan, to highly competitive education reimbursement provisions, paid time off and a mental health benefit, CME Group offers a holistic benefits package for our team and their dependents.

CME Group: Where Futures are Made

CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow.

We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more. At CME Group, we embrace our employees’ unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued.

As an equal‑opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.

As the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group is where the world comes to manage risk. We enable clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities.

CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes foreign exchange energy agricultural products and metals.

We meet uncertainty and volatility with confidence and clarity, across the trading lifecycle and around the world.

Hear more about our employee experience. Get a look inside CME Group and see what makes us tick. A rewarding career is only the beginning.

For U.S. employment, CME Group is legally required to validate a new hire’s employment eligibility by having them complete an Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I‑9) companied with legally acceptable proof of identity and work authorization (as listed on the Form I‑9). CME Group uses E‑Verify, which is an online system operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in partnership with the Social Security Administration to verify employment eligibility and validate social security numbers. Through participation in the E‑Verify program, information entered on Form I‑9 will be provided and compared to information available at both of these agencies.

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