The Senior Territory Account Executive drives the full sales cycle with a focus on new business acquisition and account management in Ukraine. Responsibilities include account planning, pipeline development, crafting value propositions, and building long-term client relationships. The role demands strong interpersonal skills and a technical background to effectively position Cloudflare's solutions. Regular engagement and customer feedback integration are key to success in a fast-paced environment.
Location: Hybrid - London, Lisbon, Munich or Amsterdam
About the Department
Account Executives, Channel Account Managers, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, Customer Success, and Sales Operations - all working together help our customers adopt Cloudflare and create great Internet-enabled experiences. The sales team at Cloudflare helps customers solve real, technical problems while creating the revenue streams that help the company provide free service to millions in our community.
About this Role
The Senior Territory Account Executive position effectively delivers the full sales cycle from prospecting to negotiating and closing sales with new & existing customers in line with business plans. Identify and progress cross sell opportunities to maximise revenue goals. Selling new products and generating additional sales revenue through effective sales outreach activity.
The ideal candidate will possess both a sales and technical background that enables them to drive engagement from administrative through executive levels within network operations, development and technical infrastructure teams.
Regional Focus: Ukraine
The Ideal Candidate:
- Passionate about sales: You have a hunger to win and a desire to exceed your targets and reap the rewards.
- Strong customer service skills: You put the client first and you do what you say you'll do.
- Personable, resilient and a culture champion: A friendly, warm and professional demeanour will get you far. You celebrate the ups and bounce back quickly from your missteps.
- Cool and calm under pressure: The ability to effectively manage competing priorities and solve multiple problems quickly is in your DNA.
Main 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.
- Direct B2B sales experience, adept at new business acquisition and account management.
- Experience selling a technical, cloud-based product or service
- Working knowledge of the cloud infrastructure and security space
- Solid understanding of computer networking and Internet functioning.
- Keenness for learning technical concepts/terms. Technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS is advantageous.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills (both verbal and written) and organizational skills
- Self-motivated with an entrepreneurial spirit.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
- Willingness to travel frequently to visit customers and prospects
- Fluency in Ukrainian
Knowledge/Experience:
- 6+ years of B2B selling experience and selling Enterprise Software or SaaS (network security preferred) or Hardware solutions and services to Mid-Enterprise/ Enterprise customers
- Relevant direct experience, track record, and relationships within enterprise and mid-market accounts in the territory
- New Business & Expansion
- Experience managing longer, complex sales cycles
- Fast paced environment
- Enterprise IT/Cyber Security background
- Aptitude for learning technical concepts/terms (Technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS a plus)
Top Skills
Cloud Infrastructure
Computer Networking
Cyber Security
Enterprise Software
Network Security
SaaS
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