Account Executive

Skills
DefenseFrenchMilitaryNew Business DevelopmentPublic SectorSales
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • Native French fluency
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of enterprise software or SaaS sales experience
  • Proven success selling technology solutions in Defence or Military sectors
  • Strong negotiation and closing skills for strategic opportunities
  • Ability to influence users influencers and budget decision makers
  • Excellent communication skills for presentations and written proposals
  • Understanding of open source information for public sector benefit
  • Appropriate security clearance to operate within the client base
  • Willingness to travel 35-50%

Nice to have

  • Military background
  • Strategic thinker
  • Relationship builder
  • Subject matter expert

Day to day

  • Drive new customer growth across International Defence by planning and executing strategic sales capture plans
  • Build and nurture long-term partnerships with senior stakeholders and key influencers in the European Union France and Belgium
  • Develop deep insight into customer needs budget cycles and buying dynamics while providing thought leadership for real-time alerting products
  • Forecast sales accurately advise on competitive activity and help integrate Dataminr solutions into customer workflows