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Enterprise Account Executive - Middle East

Canonical
Posted February 7, 2025

Job Description

The job involves representing Canonical and its open source solutions in a designated territory, focusing on building and executing territory plans, developing new business pipelines, and managing customer relationships throughout the sales cycle to meet and exceed sales targets.

Responsibilities

  • Represent the company and its solutions in the assigned territory
  • Build and execute a territory plan for outreach and prospecting
  • Develop new pipeline through outreach, local marketing, and industry events
  • Close contracts to meet and exceed quarterly and annual bookings targets
  • Manage customer relationships through all stages of the sales cycle
  • Collaborate with field engineers to propose solutions for customer business problems
  • Work with customer success to identify growth opportunities
  • Maintain accurate pipeline data and forecasts within Salesforce
  • Establish professional relationships with key influencers and decision makers

Requirements

  • Experience with complex deals in sectors like government, banking, or utilities.
  • Strong understanding of forecasting, territory management, and account management, with skills in opportunity development.
  • Experience with Middle Eastern customers, especially in Saudi, UAE, Egypt, and Qatar.
  • Strong network with channels, partners, ISVs, and hardware vendors in the Middle East region.
  • Bachelor's level degree, preferably in engineering or computer science.
  • Experience of open source technology and solutions.
  • Detail oriented with effective follow-up.
  • Experience in enterprise software or technology sales planning and execution.
  • Track record of achievement in sales targets and new account wins.
  • Self-discipline and motivation to be successful in a distributed team.
  • Professional written and spoken English, as well as any language that may be appropriate for your target market.
  • Ability to travel for customer engagements, industry events, and company events.

Benefits

  • Compensation/salary range
  • Performance-driven commission structure
  • Annual compensation review
  • Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
  • Recognition rewards
  • Annual holiday leave
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
  • Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  • Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person

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