Account Executive - Automotive

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Paris, France · Enterprise Sales

Account Executive focused on the Automotive and Manufacturing sector in France, responsible for building relationships, closing new business opportunities, and driving revenue for Databricks' data, analytics, and AI solutions within key accounts. The role involves collaborating with global account managers, developing strategic business plans, identifying new opportunities, and acting as a trusted advisor on Data & AI subjects.

What you'd actually do

  1. Assess your key account and develop a strategy to meet and exceed revenue and consumption goals
  2. Implement the above strategy to meet and exceed revenue and consumption targets
  3. Build positive relationships with key decision makers (up to and including C-level) and establish yourself as a trusted advisor for Data & AI-related subjects
  4. Identify new business opportunities and develop the expand / consumption use cases within your key account
  5. Orchestrate and utilise internal teams to maximise the impact on your ecosystem

Skills

Required

  • Sales quotas and KPIs
  • Large enterprise-class manufacturing clients
  • Complex software deals
  • Structured enterprise transformation projects (data, analytics or AI)
  • Consumption-based land and expand sales models
  • Creating demand that delivered substantial business value
  • Robust sales methodologies and process (account planning, MEDDPICC, Value Selling, Command of the Message, accurate forecasting)
  • Building effective champions and collaborative teams
  • Developing a clear partner strategy
  • Identifying important use cases and buying centres
  • Fluent English and French

Nice to have

  • Prior consulting experience

What the JD emphasized

  • revenue and consumption goals
  • revenue and consumption targets
  • Data & AI-related subjects
  • new business opportunities
  • consumption use cases
  • internal teams
  • meeting and exceeding sales quotas and KPIs
  • large enterprise-class manufacturing clients
  • complex software deals
  • structured enterprise transformation projects (data, analytics or AI)