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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Account Manager IS-IT

Account ExecutiveConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeVélizy-Villacoublay, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience selling complex services.
  • Experience in IT, including IT transformation, business information systems, innovation, or digital, is required.
  • Ability to maintain privileged commercial relationships with strategic clients, ensure a high level of client satisfaction, and identify client challenges and opportunities.
  • Strong written and synthesis skills, along with excellent oral and written communication.
  • Analytical ability, agility, and teamwork skills.
  • Relationship skills to develop trust with clients and company partners and integrate effectively into the team.
  • Fluent English is required.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and develop assigned business and relationships with key strategic clients and partners, focusing on acquiring new opportunities among internal Group IT stakeholders.
  • Build close relationships with decision-makers across Group IT services to understand their challenges, context, and desired value, and provide tailored solutions.
  • Develop and execute strategies to proactively identify new opportunities before requests for proposals.
  • Write and deliver relevant presentations showcasing TSN solutions and their value in response to changing technologies.
  • Guide a pre-sales team in preparing a winning technical and financial proposal.
  • Own the tender process through closing deals within the assigned scope.
  • Participate in steering and strategic committees for projects in delivery to secure the work and support the program director.
  • Manage the sales pipeline in the CRM, updating opportunity information and progress through invoicing, and record sales activities.
  • Work with partners when needed to add value to the offer.
  • Involve experts at appropriate stages of the sales process and formalize deliverables with them.
  • Collaborate with other departments to develop offers and share experience.
  • Work closely with commercial leadership to track key performance indicators, progress against sales objectives, and improvement opportunities.
  • Maintain thorough knowledge of the business sector and its key market participants.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of the Thales environment is an advantage.

About the Company

Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Thales designs and delivers critical technology for aerospace, defense, and digital security. Its products include electronics, software, and data-security systems that power air travel, payments, and modern military platforms, by integrating hardware and software to build systems such as avionics, radar, cybersecurity, and secure communications that collect sensor data and protect networks. It stands out through deep industrial experience, end-to-end solutions across defense, aerospace, and cybersecurity, and a focus on AI and quantum tech, aided by strategic acquisitions and partial state ownership. Its goal is to provide reliable, secure, and connected technologies that support national security, public safety, and everyday life by solving complex security and connectivity challenges.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Meudon, France
Founded
1893

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