Account Executive - Marketing Cloud - French Market

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SMB Account Executive - Marketing Cloud - French Market About the Role

Salesforce Marketing Cloud is the world's most powerful digital marketing platform letting you connect to customers in a whole new way. You'll deliver amazing experiences wherever you and your customers meet - online, in the street or in a mobile app.

Key Requirements

• Language: Full professional fluency in French and English is mandatory.
• Location: This is a Hybrid role based in Dublin, Ireland (Relocation assistance included).

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Your Mission

As a Marketing Cloud Account Executive, you are the go-to expert for Marketing Cloud across your dedicated French market customer set. You'll own the full sales cycle for Marketing Cloud opportunities - from prospecting through close - using your solution selling expertise and deep product knowledge to respond efficiently to customer needs, identify Marketing Cloud-specific business potential, and build a strategic, long-term partnership with your customers.

Responsibilities

• Specialist Sales Leadership: Serve as the subject-matter expert for Marketing Cloud, partnering with core Account Executives across a dedicated customer set in the French market to drive specialist-led opportunities, across a complex SMB territory spanning new logo and expansion business.
• Strategic Growth: Drive performance against key metrics with a primary focus on pipeline generation, deal acceleration, and expansion of Marketing Cloud within existing and net-new accounts.
• Solution Selling: Bring deep expertise in Marketing Cloud to uncover business challenges and align tailored solutions to customer goals through a consultative approach.
• Relationship Building: Develop trusted relationships with business and technical decision-makers through regular digital engagement, demos, and face-to-face meetings, independently identifying decision-makers and influencers.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with core AEs, Pre-sales, Business Development, Marketing and other teams to shape deal strategy, optimize the sales funnel, structure and close specialist deals, bringing in SEs and cross-functional resources as needed.
• Required Qualifications Full-Cycle Sales: Proven track record of quota-carrying, tech/SaaS sales experience managing the sales cycle from prospecting through close.
• Territory & Account Planning: Create territory & account plans to identify, qualify, and successfully close specialist-led opportunities.
• Research & Discovery: Uncover prospect's business challenges, processes, and strategic goals.
• Solutioning: Craft value propositions that map to customer needs, demonstrating deep understanding of specialized technology solutions.
• Communication: Clear, effective and timely engagement across writing, speech, presentation, and tools (Slack, Zoom, Google Slides).
• Resourcefulness: Drive results using all tools and resources available.
• Team Selling: Align with core AEs, Pre-sales, and partners to support deals and customer success.
• Mindset: Coachable, competitive, and motivated by ambitious goals.
• Language: Fluent in French and English.
• Preferred Qualifications Methodology: Familiarity with MEDDPICC, Challenger, or Value Selling.
• Strategic Alliances: Ability to develop cases and lead strategic partnerships.
• Adaptability: Thriving in a fast-paced environment.
• Track Record: Consistently meeting or exceeding quota.

What's In It For You

• Personal Wellbeing: Private health insurance, life insurance, a retirement savings plan, and a monthly wellness allowance.
• Flexibility: Flexible time off and leave policies, plus comprehensive parental support programs.
• Career Development: Access to world-class AI and sales training, mentorship, and a clear path for promotion within the global Salesforce ecosystem.
• Giving Back: 7 paid volunteer days per year and donation matching for the causes you care about.
• Perks: Employee discounts, inclusive resource groups, and a culture that celebrates Equality.

Equality & Inclusion

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive workplace. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and ensure reasonable accommodations are provided throughout the recruitment process where required.

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