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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Position Overview: As an Account Director with Diligent, you'll be at the forefront of driving revenue growth, deepening customer engagement, and shaping the future of how businesses utilise our cutting-edge solutions. Success in this role means expanding product adoption among current customers and introducing new clients to our platform. This is a high-impact, individual contributor role that demands strategic vision, proactive relationship-building, and relentless pursuit of excellence. You’ll be responsible for everything from engaging prospects and managing a robust pipeline to delivering accurate forecasts and closing deals. Acting as a trusted advisor and strategist, you’ll lead account planning, orchestrate internal collaboration, and leverage expertise to elevate customer success and revenue growth. We’re looking for a commercially sound sales professional with a track record of exceeding targets, a natural collaborator, and someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments. If you’re driven to create value, embody a customer-first ethos, and deliver innovative solutions, this is the role for you. Key Responsibilities: Proactively build a deep knowledge of and expertise in Diligent’s products, solutions, strategy and business priorities. Responsible for prospecting new and existing business within the designated vertical / territory for complex accounts with longer sales cycles. Adopts a ‘solutions’ selling approach, understanding customer needs and developing solutions through the lens of the Diligent One Platform. Build deep relationships with prospects and customers during interactions by being customer-focused and consistently honouring commitments and connecting the customer to internal commercial stakeholders to foster product growth. Develop and execute on account plans to ensure revenue targets, quota and customer business needs are met and collaborates with key stakeholders to drive integrated joint account wins for mutual business growth

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Position Overview As we accelerate Diligent's presence across EMEA's specialist services markets, we're looking for a driven, commercially sharp sales professional who can win and grow with senior buyers in a governed, compliance-driven world. This is a rare opportunity to join Specialty Markets, a high-growth EMEA division serving the firms that manage governance, entities, risk and audit on behalf of their clients. You'll own a defined, high-value territory with a clear mandate: grow net-new revenue and expand within an established base of Diligent relationships. If you know how to sell complex, multi-stakeholder software into professional and regulated services firms – and can get credible with their leaders fast – this role was built for you. The Market You'll Sell Into You'll sell to professional and regulated services firms that deliver governance, entity, risk, compliance and audit work on behalf of their clients. In practice that spans fund administrators, corporate service providers, management companies (ManCos / AIFMs), law firms, private equity and venture capital firms, trust & fiduciary services, risk advisers, and audit & advisory firms. This isn't back-office compliance – it's a revenue-generating service line they deliver to their own clients. Diligent's platform underpins how they run and scale that work, which makes us central to how they win, serve and grow their client base, not just how they stay compliant. Jurisdictions: this is a single, flexible mandate that can be run across any of our key offshore and onshore markets – including the Channel Islands, Luxembourg, Ireland, the UK, Cayman, BVI, Bermuda, the Isle of Man and the Middle East. Key Responsibilities Own the full commercial cycle across your patch – from prospecting and pipeline generation through to close and upsell – working both new-logo acquisition and account expansion. Use your network and market flue

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📍 London, Greater London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role As an Account Director focused on Life Sciences, you will own executive-level relationships with leading life sciences organizations, including global pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical device companies, and contract research organizations. You’ll help these companies safely and effectively deploy OpenAI’s technology to transform R&D productivity, automate documentation, enhance regulatory workflows, and personalize patient and provider engagement. This role blends scientific literacy, technical depth, business acumen, and relationship-driven enterprise sales. You will collaborate closely with researchers, engineers, and healthcare-focused solution strategists to design secure, compliant, and high-impact AI deployments. This role is based in London. In this role, you’ll: Manage a focused portfolio of large pharmaceutical and life sciences accounts, developing long-term strategic account plans Lead complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles spanning R&D, medical, regulatory, and commercial functions Partner with solutions and research engineering to design pilots that demonstrate measurable business and scientific impact Collaborate with compliance, privacy, and security teams to ensure responsible deployment of AI in regulated environments Own a revenue and consumption target; manage forecasts and pipeline reporting Monitor

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom
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Position Overview: As an Account Director with Diligent, you'll be at the forefront of driving revenue growth, deepening customer engagement, and shaping the future of how businesses utilise our cutting-edge solutions. Success in this role means expanding product adoption among current customers and introducing new clients to our platform. This is a high-impact, individual contributor role that demands strategic vision, proactive relationship-building, and relentless pursuit of excellence. You’ll be responsible for everything from engaging prospects and managing a robust pipeline to delivering accurate forecasts and closing deals. Acting as a trusted advisor and strategist, you’ll lead account planning, orchestrate internal collaboration, and leverage expertise to elevate customer success and revenue growth. We’re looking for a commercially sound sales professional with a track record of exceeding targets, a natural collaborator, and someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments. If you’re driven to create value, embody a customer-first ethos, and deliver innovative solutions, this is the role for you. This role operates on a hybrid model, with 50% office-based work required (periodic travel to partner offices will be required). This role is open to candidates based in London. Regrettably we are unable to provide visa sponsorship, so you must be eligible to work in the UK. Key Responsibilities: Proactively build a deep knowledge of and expertise in Diligent’s products, solutions, strategy and business priorities. Responsible for prospecting new and existing business within the designated vertical / territory for complex accounts with longer sales cycles. Adopts a ‘solutions’ selling approach, understanding customer needs and developing solutions through the lens of the Diligent One Platform. Build deep relationships with prospects and customers during interactions by being customer-focused and consistently honouring commitments and connecting th

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Position Overview: As an Enterprise Account Director with Diligent, you'll be at the forefront of driving revenue growth, deepening customer engagement, and shaping the future of how businesses utilise our cutting-edge solutions. Success in this role means introducing new clients to our platform. This is a high-impact, individual contributor role that demands strategic vision, proactive relationship-building, and relentless pursuit of excellence. You’ll be responsible for everything from engaging prospects and managing a robust pipeline to delivering accurate forecasts and closing deals. Acting as a trusted advisor and strategist, you’ll lead account planning, orchestrate internal collaboration, and leverage expertise to elevate customer success and revenue growth. We’re looking for a commercially sound sales professional with a track record of exceeding targets, a natural collaborator, and someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments. If you’re driven to create value, embody a customer-first ethos, and deliver innovative solutions, this is the role for you. Key Responsibilities: Proactively build a deep knowledge of and expertise in Diligent’s products, solutions, strategy and business priorities. Responsible for prospecting new business within the FSBI territory for complex accounts with longer sales cycles. Adopts a ‘solutions’ selling approach, understanding customer needs and developing solutions through the lens of the Diligent One Platform. Build deep relationships with prospects during interactions by being customer-focused and consistently honouring commitments and connecting the customer to internal commercial stakeholders to foster product growth. Develop and execute on account plans to ensure revenue targets, quota and customer business needs are met and collaborates with key stakeholders to drive integrated joint account wins for mutual business growth. Leads the coordination of Sales stakeholders to prioritise actions for multiple assign

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📍 London, Greater London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this requires bringing together world-class scientists, engineers, and business leaders to translate frontier research into real-world impact. Within OpenAI, the Go-to-Market organization helps customers understand, adopt, and scale our products across their businesses. The team includes Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, Partnerships, and Strategic Pursuits professionals who work together to bring the benefits of AI to organizations globally. About the Role We are hiring a Senior Specialist Seller to join the Strategic Pursuits team and lead priority opportunities generated through the joint AWS and OpenAI co-sell motion. You will partner closely with Account Directors, AWS field teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to identify, shape, advance, and close high-value strategic enterprise engagements. This role is ideal for a senior seller with deep experience in enterprise technology, AI, cloud, or complex transformation sales motions. You should be comfortable operating in executive-facing environments, aligning multiple stakeholders, and turning customer priorities into commercially compelling and technically credible opportunities. This role is based in London or Munich. We operate on a hybrid model of 3 days per week in office and offer relocation support. In this role, you will: Lead commercial execution of priority AWS/OpenAI co-sell opportunities across strategic enterprise accounts. Identify and qualify high-potential opportunities focused on GenAI adoption, frontier platform use cases, and enterprise-wide transformation. Partner with AWS and OpenAI field teams to align account strategy, messaging, stakeholder mapping, and execution plans. Develop customer-facing value propositions that connect OpenAI capabilities with business priorities and AWS infrastructure strategies. Drive executive-level engagement including customer me

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📍 United Kingdom· Full-time
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The Team + The Role Pendo’s Customer Engineering team is the technical backbone of the pre- and post-sales customer motion. The team brings together work that has historically sat across Customer Success, Technical Account Management, and Solutions Engineering into one full-lifecycle technical owner. Customer Engineering helps customers connect technical execution to business outcomes and realize the value of their investment in Pendo. The Team + The Role Pendo’s Customer Engineering team is the technical backbone of the pre- and post-sales customer motion. The team brings together work across Customer Success, Technical Account Management, and Solutions Engineering into one full-lifecycle technical owner. Customer Engineering helps customers connect technical execution to business outcomes and realize the value of their investment in Pendo. As a Senior Customer Engineer you will own strategic and complex Enterprise accounts across acquisition, implementation, adoption, expansion, and escalation. You will lead technical strategy for complex deployments, resolve ambiguous customer challenges, and partner closely with account teams to drive retention, expansion, and customer value. Your impact will extend beyond your own accounts through playbooks, coaching, repeatable fixes, and workflow improvements that raise the capability of the broader Customer Engineering team. This role is based in our London office. What this looks like day-to-day New customer acquisition and selling: Partner with Account Directors on pre-sales motions for new customer acquisition, product expansion, and growth across lines of business. You identify customer pain, craft and deliver tailored demos, and lead technical evaluations through requirements gathering, success criteria, installation guidance, and hands-on workshops. Quarterly business outcomes: Drive measurable improvement in customer health, retention, expansion,

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📍 United Kingdom· Full-time
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£106.5K – £128K/yr

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The Team + The Role The Director, Field Marketing EMEA is a hands-on field marketing role owning the in-person and account-based programes that drive pipeline across EMEA. You'll sit within a lean team of three, reporting to the Senior Director, Demand Generation, EMEA — and you'll be building and executing programes yourself, and love doing so. We're looking for someone who is genuinely embedded in the European product and tech community, knows what moves and influences SAAS buyers in our key markets (UK, DACH, France, Nordics, and the Netherlands) and can connect every field investment to a commercial outcome. This role is a hybrid position based 3 days per week in our London office. What this looks like day-to-day Owning the end-to-end EMEA field marketing calendar — regional events, roadshows, conference activations, and hosted programmes built for European buyers Leading field programmes with particular depth in French and DACH markets, from concept through to post-event pipeline attribution Partnering closely with EMEA Sales to ensure every field investment is tied to account-level pipeline goals Designing and delivering executive programmes for every Pendo leadership visit to the region — pipeline dinners, roundtables, customer engagements Owning EMEA customer stories and connecting them to field moments, campaigns, and Pendo's broader content pipeline Executing co-marketing programmes with regional partners, resellers, and SIs Building and maintaining a visible, credible presence for Pendo across the European B2B tech and product community Who You Are Beyond the qualifications, we hire through a specific lens. These aren't buzzwords; they're the things we'll actually look for in how you talk about your work. You're a builder, not a maintainer. You're most energized when there isn't a clear path yet, and you get to define it. You don't wait for direction; you identify gaps, shape solutions, and drive them forward. At Pendo, you don't just follow i

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📍 London, UK, United Kingdom· Full-time
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. The International Revenue Operations team is the operational engine behind Vanta's global GTM expansion. This team designs and executes the processes, systems, and operational rhythms that enable our sales, customer success, account management, and partner teams in EMEA and APAC to scale efficiently and hit ambitious revenue targets. They own forecasting accuracy, territory planning, pipeline health, compensation administration, and cross-functional collaboration across the international GTM org. The team's work directly drives revenue predictability, operational efficiency, and GTM excellence as Vanta expands globally, with the international market being one of our fastest-growing parts of the business. As the Director of International Revenue Operations, you will have a front row seat to building and scaling this massively impactful area of our business. What you’ll do as a Director, International Operations at Vanta: Build and lead a team of 4 revenue operations professionals supporting Vanta's international GTM organisation across pre-sales and post-sales functions Own the operating rhythm for EMEA and APAC revenue teams, including forecasting, pipeline inspection, territory management, and quarterly business reviews Partner closely with international sales leadership to drive forecast accuracy, identify pipeline gaps, and remove friction in the sales process Design and implement scalable processes for lead routing, opportunity management, comp administration, and performance tracking across multiple regions Collaborate with global RevOps leadership, Business Systems, and GTM Analytics to ensure consistency while adapting f

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📍 United Kingdom· Full-time
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The Team + The Role The Senior Director, Demand Generation EMEA is a senior, hands-on leadership role owning Pendo's marketing pipeline across the region — UK, DACH, France, Nordics, and the Netherlands. This is a rare opportunity to shape how Pendo grows across Europe. You'll work closely with regional sales leaders to build high-performing, pipeline-generating marketing programmes from the ground up — with real visibility into commercial leadership and a direct line into how new business and customer growth gets driven across EMEA. We're not looking for someone to localise global campaigns. We're looking for a builder — someone who creates demand programmes from scratch, understands what resonates with European buyers, and can operate with genuine autonomy to lead the region. You'll report to the VP of Revenue Marketing, based in North America, and work as part of a small, focused EMEA marketing team. This is a hybrid role, based three days a week in our London office. What this looks like day-to-day Owning and delivering Pendo's EMEA pipeline contribution target across all segments and sub-regions Building original, EMEA-first demand generation programmes — digital, ABM, and account-based plays designed for European buyers Partnering closely with EMEA Sales and SAles Leaders on account plans, pipeline coverage, and deal acceleration Developing a coherent EMEA marketing strategy across diverse markets, languages, and buying behaviours — with particular depth in French and DACH Serving as the primary EMEA voice in global marketing planning, advocating for regional needs and investment Leading and developing the EMEA demand generation function, including the Director of Field Marketing Defining the EMEA co-marketing strategy with regional partners, resellers, and SIs Owning EMEA marketing performance reporting — pipeline contribution, ROI, funnel conversion, and marketing-attributed revenue Who You Are Beyond the qualifications, we hire through a specific len

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📍 City Of London Corporation, GBR, United Kingdom
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Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™️ platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Role We are looking for an Account Executive to join our team. This is a Hybrid role, reporting to the Regional Director in the Sales and Go-to-Market department. The Zscaler Sales and Go-to-Market team is a global group of professionals who are passionate about delighting our customers, nurturing trusted partnerships, and sharing their expertise to drive a secure, cloud-enabled digital future and further cement our position as the world leader in cloud security. Sales, Customer Success, Sales Enablement, Solution Architects, Business Development, Transformation, and Technology Partnerships all work together to demonstrate the power and agility of Zscaler cloud transformation to the world. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Manage an assigned territory focused on net new logo and upsell opportunities across the UK market within mixed verticals Drive revenue growth by selling into major level accounts (40,000 users + ) Pa

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Skeletons, lasers, tattoo buses — the Torq brand grabs attention like nothing else in cybersecurity. And we're growing like crazy, backed by Series D funding, 200% employee growth, and 300% revenue growth. Fueling Torq's momentum is our game-changing AI SOC platform, backed by a team and culture that makes Torq one of Forbes' Best Startup Employers in America, and a Business Insider 'startup to bet your career on'. Life at Torq is all gas, no brakes. We're a team of relentless, collaborative go-getters pushing the boundaries of what's possible for security automation. Every role is an essential driver of Torq's success as the AI-native autonomous SecOps platform of choice for security teams across the Fortune 500. Over the past year, we've built one of the fastest-growing Enterprise Sales organizations in EMEA. Now we're looking for a hands-on Regional Sales Director to lead our Western Europe business across the UK, Ireland, France, Benelux, and Northern Europe. This isn't a role for someone who wants to manage from behind a dashboard. We're looking for a leader who enjoys being in the field, building pipeline alongside the team, partnering with customers, and helping experienced Enterprise sellers win bigger. Location: London, UK (preferred) What you'll do Lead, coach, and develop a team of Enterprise Account Executives across Western Europe. Own the regional sales strategy and execution to achieve ambitious growth targets. Drive pipeline generation, forecasting, operational excellence, and accurate sales execution. Partner closely with customers, Sales Engineers, Marketing, and Channel teams to accelerate strategic opportunities. Support the team throughout complex enterprise sales cycles, from prospecting to closed deals. Identify new business opportunities and expand Torq's presence across the region. Recruit, hire, and develop top-performing Enterprise sales talent. Represent Torq at customer meetings, executive briefings, and industry events. Foste

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Position Overview: The Solutions Sales Director will play an instrumental role in driving revenue growth for Diligent’s solutions across existing and new accounts. This role is focused on candidates with strong expertise in entity management space , either as a practitioner (e.g., company secretary) or someone who has directly used entity management tools in a commercial or operational setting. The Solutions Sales Director is responsible for managing larger, complex accounts with longer sales cycles and driving adoption of the Diligent One Platform. This individual contributor position manages the full sales cycle, from initial prospect/customer meetings through to deal completion, while orchestrating internal expertise to deliver on and grow accounts. Providing coaching, guidance, and support to Sales stakeholders is a key element to enable team members to learn best practices. Success in this role is measured by expanding product usage in existing customers, migrating customers to the Diligent One Platform, and selling to new accounts. Key Responsibilities: Demonstrate and maintain expert-level knowledge of Diligent’s entity and subsidiary management solutions. Prospect and manage new and existing business within the designated territory, focusing on larger, complex accounts with longer sales cycles. Apply a consultative ‘solutions selling’ approach, using deep domain expertise to understand customer needs and position the Diligent One Platform effectively. Leverage industry-focused insights to create long-term competitive advantages for customers. Expand strategic customer relationships and drive growth across multiple areas of the organisation. Gather feedback from customers on needs, products, and features; collaborate with product management and marketing to drive improvements. Develop strategic account plans that generate new business and upsell opportunities, coordinating cross-functional teams to execute plans. Manage the end-to-end sales cycle using

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📍 Spain; Remote, United Kingdom· Full-time· Remote
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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role: As an Account Executive covering Greece and Malta, you’ll be the primary connection between GitLab and customers, working with organizations of up to 4,000 team members to help them adopt and expand the world’s most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You’ll own a broad book of business across a wide range of opportunity sizes, guiding small, fast-growing teams as well as more complex projects as they modernize their software delivery with GitLab. Reporting to a Regional Sales Director and partnering closely with business development, marketing, and technical teams, you’ll run the full sales pro

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📍 United Kingdom· Full-time
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For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. Smartsheet is looking for an Enterprise Account Executive to join our EMEA organisation. You will be responsible for increasing software and services sales by expanding existing customers' adoption along with targeting new logo acquisition. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity to help build out a strategically important vertical for Smartsheet. This role is based at Smartsheet in London, UK (hybrid or UK, remote eligible) and reports to a Regional Director, Enterprise Sales. You Will: Exceed quarterly and annual software and services sales quotas Lead primary and secondary account teams by partnering with Solution Engineering, Consulting, Customer Success, Customer Outcomes, Marketing and Sales Development Develop short and long-term growth and renewal strategies across your customer base Balance tactical execution whilst ultimately targeting complex, high-value solution-based deals Proactively develop unsolicited proposals that align with customer initiatives and position Smartsheet as an enterprise software solution provider Accurately forecast sales opportunities, while tracking and using critical metrics that predict sales success Perform other duties as assigned You Have: 7+ years of experience selling enterprise software or services Demonstrable track record of exceeding assigned quotas and receiving recognition for high-performance Demonstrable experience building relationships with senior line-of-business leaders, IT executives and operational managers within Enterprise organisations (>10,00

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