Global Account Manager

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · Amsterdam, Netherlands · Sales

This role is for a Global Account Manager at Snowflake, a company powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The role focuses on achieving sales quotas, developing sales strategies, and acting as a trusted advisor to customers by understanding their IT roadmaps and driving the Snowflake solution. It involves prospecting, managing sales processes, ensuring customer satisfaction, and closing complex deals. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in field sales, particularly in data or cloud technology, with a focus on strategic and complex customers, and experience managing cross-functional teams and closing seven-figure deals.

What you'd actually do

  1. Achieve sales quotas for allocated accounts on a quarterly and annual basis by developing a sales strategy in the allocated territory.
  2. Develop strategic, account based marketing plans with the marketing team to drive revenue growth.
  3. Be the trusted advisor to the customer by understanding their existing and future IT roadmap to drive the Snowflake solution within the marketplace.
  4. Prospect qualification and the development of new sales opportunities and ongoing revenue streams.
  5. Arrange and conduct Executive and CxO discussions and positioning meetings.

Skills

Required

  • Field sales experience
  • Data or cloud related technology sales
  • Strategic and complex customer management
  • Cross-functional account team collaboration
  • Sales account team leadership
  • Seven figure deal closure
  • Strategic account planning
  • Determining customer requirements
  • Presenting appropriate solutions
  • Articulating business value / ROI
  • Transformational and consultative selling
  • Sophisticated negotiations
  • Executive level relationship management
  • Understanding of business drivers for C-level stakeholders
  • Alignment with critical departments internally
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • Excellent listening skills
  • Organization and contact management capabilities

Nice to have

  • Value orientated selling
  • Solution-based approach to selling

What the JD emphasized

  • 10-15+ years of field sales experience preferred with an emphasis on data or cloud related technology.
  • Extensive experience focussed on strategic and complex customers, working with cross functional account teams internally.
  • Experience leading sales account teams that are aligned to customer(s) at a regional level.
  • Experience closing seven figure, multi year deals and formulating strategic account plans.