Senior Territory Account Executive

Available Locations: Paris
About the Department
Account Executives, Channel Account Managers, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, Customer Success, and Sales Operations - all work together to help our customers adopt Cloudflare and create great Internet-enabled experiences. The sales team at Cloudflare help customers solve real technical problems while creating the revenue streams that help the company provide free services to millions in our community.
What you'll do
We are looking for a seasoned sales professional to help us build an Enterprise Public Sector Sales team to cover large Public Sector accounts across the French region. The ideal candidate will possess both a sales and technical background that enables them to drive engagement at all levels with technical and non-technical buyers.
As an Public Sector Account Executive, you'll be responsible for developing and executing against a comprehensive account/territory plan as well as driving sales in a defined territory and/or account list to achieve revenue targets. The person in this role will also assist in creating and articulating compelling value propositions for Cloudflare services in the Public Sector and be one of the key influencers in shaping the team in the coming years.
Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive account/territory plan to achieve quarterly sales and annual revenue targets in a defined territory and/or account list.
• Drive new business acquisition (new customer logos), customer expansion (upsell and cross sell Cloudflare solutions), and renewal within your territory.
• Build a robust sales pipeline through continual engagement and nurturing of key prospect accounts.
• Understand customer use-cases and how they pair with Cloudflare's portfolio solutions in order to identify new sales opportunities.
• Craft and communicate compelling value propositions for Cloudflare services. Drive awareness through regular outbound campaigns on product and feature roadmap updates.
• Effectively scale the territory with partners
• Accurately forecast commercial outcomes by running a consistent sales process, including driving next step expectations and contract negotiations.
• As a trusted advisor, build long-term strategic relationships with key accounts, to ensure customer adoption, retention and expansion. Regularly evaluate usage trends and articulate value to show Cloudflare impact and provide strategic recommendations during business reviews.
• Network across different business units with each of your accounts, and multi-thread to identify and engage new divisional buyers.
• Position Cloudflare's platform in each of your target customers, including Cloudflare One and the Connectivity Cloud to realize our full potential in every customer.
• Operate internally as a liaison with cross-functional teams to share key customer feedback and insights to improve customer experience and further investments with Cloudflare.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Minimum 5 years of direct public sector selling experience, having worked with at least one of the following verticals; large local government, central departments, ministries, agencies, healthcare
• Experience managing longer, complex sales cycles.
• Understanding of UGAP and other procurement frameworks.
• Experienced working with Systems Integrators and Channel partners.
• Basic understanding of computer networking and "how the internet works"
• Aptitude for learning technical concepts/terms (Technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS a plus)