Senior Account Executive - Enterprise Sales

New Relic New Relic · Enterprise · France · Enterprise

New Relic is seeking a Senior Account Executive for Enterprise Sales in France. The role involves selling their observability platform to new enterprise accounts, driving account acquisition, expanding the top of the funnel, executing sales strategies, and demonstrating product proficiency. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in quota-carrying software sales, a track record of closing multi-year SaaS deals, and fluency in French and English.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own territory and cultivate relationships with all pertinent stakeholders within target accounts to maximize sales into new accounts with the objective of being part of the customers’ long-term business solution.
  2. Complement centralized marketing campaigns with own prospecting, develop relationships and alignment at multiple levels – C level executive sponsors, influencers, and day-to-day users.
  3. Use New Relic’s sales process to close large-scale, multi-year subscription-based deals.
  4. Diagnose each account’s business plan and existing technology stack.
  5. Be proficient with a working knowledge across New Relic’s product lines.

Skills

Required

  • Quota-carrying sales experience
  • New business acquisition
  • Closing multi-year SaaS deals
  • Relationship cultivation
  • Sales process execution
  • French language proficiency
  • English language proficiency

Nice to have

  • Experience in observability
  • Experience with Salesforce

What the JD emphasized

  • Extensive experience in a quota-carrying sales experience as an account owner at a software/technology company with a focus on new business acquisition
  • Track record of tenacity and driving results with a sense of urgency
  • Track record of closing multi-year and subscription-based SaaS deals
  • Proven ability to cultivate relationships based on advising on quality or manufacturing insights, best practices and strategy
  • Excellent leadership and strong ability of working with and indirectly managing sales support colleagues
  • Viewed as an expert in domain by accounts
  • Fluency in French and English