Account Executive, Commercial Accounts
Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.
About the Role
The Account Executive, Commercial will be responsible for developing/closing business indirectly with a number of private, corporate customers in their assigned market through working with the partner sales community. The primary focus is aimed at closing sales opportunities and is achieved by collaborating with partners to identify, develop, accelerate, up-sell and close transactions.
Location: Preferably based in North Rhine-Westphalia (e.g. Cologne, Dusseldorf, Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg)
What You'll Do
- Develop and close business with defined corporate, private accounts
- Leverage partners to close sales with their end customers
- Cold calls to develop sales activities with a large number of new mid-market and high-segment end users
- Up-sell and cross-sell to the existing customer base
- Forecasts and account/opportunity details in Salesforce
- Propose, coordinate and participate to marketing activities in the defined territory
What You'll Bring:
- Direct, new business sales experience
- Experience with vendors associated with Virtualization, Cloud & SaaS technology is a plus
- Have experience of selling through channel and direct
- Track record of accomplishment selling to the IT infrastructure specialists
- Proven ability to develop new sales
- Be a self-starter with the ability to learn quickly
- Be a high-energy salesperson
- Be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where roles and responsibilities change quickly
- Be comfortable travelling for at least 50% of the time
- Current full driving license
- Business proficient language skills in German & English
What You'll Get:
- 30 paid vacation days, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
- Statutory public health insurance with employer and employee contributions
- Statutory pension scheme with employer and employee contributions
- Statutory accident insurance fully funded by Veeam
- Supplemental pension plan with employer match and salary sacrifice optionSupplemental accident insurance with 24/7 worldwide coverage
- Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning
Please note: If an applicant is permanently located outside of Germany, Veeam reserves the right to decline the application for this position. #LI-CA1 #LI-REMOTE
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