Smb Account Executive - French Speaker

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Dublin, Ireland

Salesforce is seeking an SMB Account Executive who will engage with existing customers and new leads to sell the entire Salesforce Customer 360 platform. The role involves building trusted relationships, developing new business opportunities, and owning the sales process to meet key performance metrics. Responsibilities include leading a dedicated customer set, using solution selling expertise, strengthening client relationships, prioritizing industry events, and working in partnership with internal teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a dedicated customer set in the ESMB space being responsible for the full sales cycle. You coordinate several sales projects simultaneously and are fully responsible for your customer.
  2. Own the entire sales process to ensure delivery against key performance metrics, with a strong emphasis on new business, while growing existing accounts.
  3. Use your solution selling expertise to respond efficiently to customer needs and identify business potential to create a strategic, long-term partnership with your customers.
  4. Strengthen client relationships through regular engagement and face-to-face meetings
  5. Prioritise and lead industry events and user groups to generate market interest.

Skills

Required

  • Demonstrated success of quota carrying, technology solution-based direct sales experience
  • Territory & Account Planning Strategies: Create territory and account plans to achieve sales objectives by effectively identifying and qualifying prospects and opportunities.
  • Research and Discovery: Uncovers a prospect’s current processes, business challenges, and strategic goals based on customer use cases and value hypotheses.
  • Solutioning: Identifies compelling value propositions that address customer needs by demonstrating an understanding of technology solutions.
  • Customer Communication: Interacting with customers in a clear, concise, and timely manner using a variety of communication methods (writing, speech, presentation) and tools (Whiteboarding, Slack, Google Slides, Zoom).
  • Resource Application: Continuously runs toward results using the full capabilities of available resources and tools.
  • Team Selling: Aligns with the full capacities of the account team and partners to support the deal and customer success.

Nice to have

  • Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
  • Sales Methodology education.
  • Ability to develop cases and service requirements, while crafting and leading strategic alliances.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
  • Track record of consistently achieving or surpassing quota.
  • Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).
  • Fluent in English and fluent French