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Salesforce

Builds cloud software for customer relationships

Named Account Executive - Retail Strategic Accounts

Account ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeParis, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Proven experience selling complex technology solutions consultatively, involving long sales cycles and multiple stakeholders.
  • Expertise in strategic account management, value selling, structuring complex agreements, and negotiating them.
  • Demonstrated ability to unite and guide multidisciplinary teams to close strategic opportunities.
  • Executive presence, strong leadership, natural authority, and excellent oral, written, and presentation skills.
  • A proven record of winning new accounts in a competitive environment.
  • Fluency in French and English.
  • Ability to build healthy, authentic, and strong relationships with a demanding client and navigate a complex stakeholder matrix in a culture with high expectations of strategic partners.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and lead the long-term overall strategy in close alignment with the client's strategic objectives.
  • Lead the full sales cycle by mobilizing appropriate resources, including presales engineers, professional services, and partners.
  • Build lasting, trusted relationships with senior decision-makers and align with key external partner networks involved in the account.
  • Identify new expansion opportunities by finding untapped use cases across the enterprise and departments.
  • Maintain ongoing engagement and develop the client as an ambassador, highlighting its successes to inspire the Salesforce Trailblazer community.
  • Coordinate the global account across EMEA, AMER, and APAC, ensuring interregional alignment and execution of a unified strategy.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of business issues specific to the Retail and Consumer Goods sector and its purchasing cycles.
  • Training in a structured sales methodology.
  • Excellent written, oral, and presentation communication skills.
  • A proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets.

About the Company

Salesforce

Builds cloud software for customer relationships

Salesforce sells cloud software that helps businesses manage sales leads, customer service, marketing, and online commerce from shared customer records. Its flagship Sales Cloud tracks accounts and deals, while Service Cloud organizes support cases and Agentforce builds AI assistants that act on company data. Teams access these tools through a browser and connect outside apps and data sources, with Slack for work messages and Tableau for visual analysis. Salesforce earns most of its revenue from software subscriptions and support, with professional services for implementation and training. Marc Benioff co-founded Salesforce in 1999, and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
1999

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