As an Enterprise Account Executive - France (f/m/d), you’ll drive Contentful’s growth by leading the end-to-end sales process with our top-tier clients
You’ll be instrumental in driving adoption and engagement, finding new revenue opportunities, and creating customer enablement initiatives within a few named accounts.
You’ll work closely with our partnership and customer success team to lead a consultative sales process by speaking to professional developers and business leaders in the French markets.
<br><br><strong>This role will require you to be in our Central London office 2 or 3 times a week.
</strong></p> <h2>What To Expect?</h2> <ul> <li>Self-generation of the pipeline through outbound motions in conjunction with marketing and BDR teams to help create new opportunities in regional accounts</li> <li>Drive expansion opportunities with existing clients in the French territory.
</li> <li>Grow existing accounts by leveraging relationships and following our comprehensive “land and expand” sales model</li> <li>Meet quarterly and annual sales goals by developing an account strategy and pipeline, managing internal and client processes, maintaining sales reports, developing market and competitor knowledge, delivering presentations to customers, and creating sales proposals</li> <li>Manage RFI/RFQ requests with Contentful internal and customer teams</li> <li>Refine and evolve our "land-and-expand" model in collaboration with Sales, Partnerships, and Customer Success teams</li> <li>Seek to understand the digital experience challenges of prospects and clients while aligning the ROI of Contentful with those challenges to ensure a value-based selling approach</li> <li>Work closely with Sales Engineers and Solution Architects to uncover technical challenges and opportunities</li> <li>Develop innovative proposals, position complex pricing structures, and negotiate contracts and deal-closing.