Lead Account Executive - French speaking (IC)

Company Description

At Freshworks, we are creating a global workplace that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose and passion, irrespective of their background, gender, race, age, sexual orientation, religion or ethnicity. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer work environment that advances the goals of our employees, our communities and our business.

Freshworks makes it fast and easy for businesses to delight their customers and employees. We do this by taking a fresh approach to building and delivering affordable, quick to implement, and designed software for the end-user. More than 60,000 companies - from startups to public companies - worldwide use Freshworks software-as-a-service (SaaS) to enable a better customer experience (CX, CRM) and employee experience (ITSM, HRSM)

Job Description

In this individual contributor role (IC). As a Lead Account Executive at Freshworks, you will play a leading role in accelerating our company's revenue growth across France. You will develop business opportunities at assigned named accounts. In this role, you will advocate multiple Freshworks product lines targeted mainly at enterprise clients. As a brand ambassador, you will champion our innovative Software-as-a-Service products to make organizations more productive, efficient and customer oriented.

 Working hand-in-hand with our marketing team and our business development representatives, you will especially be responsible for the acquisition of new customers. The business development representatives (BDRs) will support you during the initial contact with potential customers and their qualifications. You will be partially responsible for helping your team of BDRs become successful. 

Your Role and Responsibilities:

• Develop a strategic plan to source and develop business opportunities within your assigned territory and to exceed your sales goals through stakeholder mapping, prospecting, qualifying, and closing opportunities

• Cultivate relationships with executive-level decision-makers and strive to become a trusted advisor and a partner at your named accounts

• Generate specific opportunities at each enterprise account in response to customer requirements and unaddressed pain points

• Communicate constantly with other departments, such as marketing and pre-sales, regarding the design and execution of campaigns to improve our internal and external processes

• Use and administer available resources effectively, e.g. steering the business development and presales representatives to reach your individual sales goals.

• Provide regular reporting of pipeline and forecasting to the Sales Manager

• Travel to customer locations and customer-focused events regularly

• Educate yourself to become an expert in SaaS products (CRM/CX/ITSM) and our product suite

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in SaaS direct sales roles (hunting) in the French market.  

• Knowledge in the field of SaaS CSM, CRM or ITSM

• Fluent in French

• Experience managing the sales cycle from business champion to C-level

• Consistent overachievement of sales goals in a large geographic territory selling a technical product

• A high degree of customer orientation, negotiation of business terms in line-of-business, procurement teams and senior management

• Being an expert in managing sales cycles with 60-90+ days or contract values of 100K-250K+

• Highly motivated, with a driven personality and a positive attitude towards sales and CRM/CX/ITSM products

• Willing to go the extra mile with a strong work ethic; self-directed and resourceful

• Project credibility with knowledge of the customer service domain and the potential of a cloud as a game-changer in the enterprise. Understand complex customer requirements on both a business and technical level

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Additional Information

At Freshworks, we are creating a global workplace that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion irrespective of their background, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer work environment that advances the goals of our employees, communities and the business.