Senior Account Executive (French) - LinkedIn Sales Solutions

About the Company

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional networking platform dedicated to creating economic opportunities for the global workforce. Our products empower users to establish meaningful connections, uncover exciting career opportunities, enhance skills, and gain valuable insights daily. We are committed to fostering a workplace culture rooted in trust, inclusion, care, and enjoyment, prioritizing employee growth and success.

Role Overview

We invite interested candidates to express their interest in future openings for the Senior Account Executive position based in Dublin. Note that there are no current active vacancies, and timelines for openings are not defined. This role involves a hybrid working model, combining remote work with in-office presence on select days as required by the business.

Responsibilities

• Generate new business leads by cultivating strong personal relationships with potential and existing clients.
• Maintain transparent and accurate sales pipeline forecasts with management.
• Consistently meet or exceed set sales quotas by closing new business.
• Devise and implement strategic territory plans focused on the French market.
• Coach and support team members to foster performance improvements.
• Contribute to the development and dissemination of best practices within the sales team.
• Gather market feedback and relay insights to product development and marketing departments.
• Take initiative to solve problems beyond assigned areas and embrace additional responsibilities as needed.
• Lead proactively to support broader company objectives.
• Travel may be required up to 10-20% of the time.

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years’ experience in a sales closing role with quota responsibilities.
• Professional fluency in both English and French.

Preferred Experience

• Experience selling SaaS, CRM, or software platform solutions.
• Demonstrated success in meeting sales targets and closing high-value deals.
• Strong skills in business opportunity evaluation and buyer assessment.
• Adept at forecasting sales and achieving business objectives using data-driven methods.
• Proven capacity to build trusted relationships with senior sales professionals.
• Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders within an organization and utilize internal partnerships to promote solutions effectively.

Suggested Competencies

• Prospecting skills
• Sales forecasting
• Negotiation expertise
• Business acumen

Additional Information

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