Senior Named Account Executive, Milan

Available Locations: Milan - Italy
About the Department
Account Executives, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, and Customer Success - all working together help our customers adopt Cloudflare and build great Internet-enabled experiences. The sales team at Cloudflare helps customers take on real, technical problems while building the revenue streams that help the company provide free service to millions in our community.
About the Role
You will drive new business sales by identifying and qualifying target accounts for Cloudflare's Enterprise service plan across our Southern European markets (Spain, Italy, Portugal etc.) This is a great opportunity for a Sales Professional to help us build the Sales and Customer Development function at Cloudflare. You will possess both a sales and technical background that enables them to drive engagement with junior through senior levels within network operations, development and technical infrastructure teams.
What you'll do
We are looking for a seasoned sales professional to help us build an Enterprise Field Sales team to cover large accounts across the Southern Europe region. The ideal candidate will possess both a sales and technical background that enables them to drive engagement at all levels with technical and non-technical buyers.
As an Account Executive, you'll be responsible for developing and executing against a comprehensive account/territory plan as well as driving sales in a defined territory and/or account list to achieve revenue targets. The person in this role will also assist in creating and articulating compelling value propositions for Cloudflare services.
Additional responsibilities will include:

• Manage contract negotiations.
• Maintain a robust sales pipeline.
• Develop long-term strategic relationships with key accounts.
• Develop and execute against a comprehensive account/territory plan.
• Drive sales in a defined territory and/or account list to achieve revenue targets.
• Create and articulate compelling value propositions for Cloudflare services.
• Develop long-term strategic relationships with key accounts.
• Ensure customer satisfaction.
• ~25% travel.

Examples of desired skills, knowledge and qualifications

• Fluent in Italian
• 6+ years of direct B2B selling experience, 3+ years selling to large enterprise accounts across Southern Europe
• Basic understanding of computer networking and "how the internet works"
• Aptitude for learning technical concepts/terms (Technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS a plus)
• Strong interpersonal communication (verbal and written) and organisational skills.
• Self-motivated; entrepreneurial spirit
• Comfortable working in a fast paced dynamic environment