Enterprise Account Executive - France (French Speaker)

On a daily basis, you will

• Generate new leads and opportunities within an assigned territory, leading to closing business enabling you to exceed your revenue targets quarterly and yearly. 
• Manage prospecting sales efforts to target key accounts and work with the channel partners to generate a pipeline in your territory.
• Use multi-channel strategy to engage with your prospects (Linked-In, email, videos, cold calls, meetings, etc.) and execute them to convert identified prospects into new logos.    
• Take ownership of your book of business: document the buying criteria, the buying process, the next steps and owners, and ensure pipeline accuracy based on evidence.
• Size and quote customer software license needs.
• Interact with prospects over phone, email, video conference, and on-site meetings when necessary.
• Support marketing efforts with account-based customer-focused marketing campaigns.
• Proactively engage in building, growing, and sharing sales team best practices.
• Accurately capture and report all aspects of account and opportunity information within the SFDC platform.
• Utilize Salesforce.com to set daily activity and accurately forecast opportunity pipeline.

The hard skills you will demonstrate

• Proven successful 7+ years of experience in a B2B sales role, ideally in a SaaS or subscription model.
• French language skills
• Focus on building and managing customer relationships.
• Experience selling a technical product to a technical buyer.
• Proven expertise in territory planning and prospecting, using various channels and tools for prospecting, such as Zoominfo, SalesLoft, LinkedIn, calling, and networking.
• Expertise in navigating and growing a pipeline in prospect accounts and taking a deal from Lead Qualification to Closed Won.
• Familiarity in supporting and selling to large enterprise customers and managing and negotiating  (> 50k USD) enterprise deals.
• Ability to drive the sales process effectively through phone calls, emails, and virtual and on-site meetings.
• Proficiency in communicating with executive-level contacts and delivering value messages based on the persona you are engaging with (bottom/up and top/down approach)
• Salesforce.com expertise; you know it and can’t imagine sales without it.
• Customer-Centric focus; We Want Happy Customers.
• Written and spoken English at a professional level. 

The soft skills you will demonstrate

• Strong communication and listening skills: handling objections and taking feedback and coaching.
• Team player interested in seeing the company goals achieved alongside the team and individual goals.
• Self-driven, desire to succeed, hungry and proactive attitude.

Nice to have

• Experience in Software Development Tooling sales or experience selling into the Development side of IT.
• Experience with selling and closing deals internationally.
 

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion

At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

If you need any accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected]. 

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date. 

We do not currently support visa candidates in the US. 

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.