French Technical Sales Representative – Cloud Security

Purpose of the Role

Join our Business Development team and be the first point of contact for businesses across EMEA. You’ll identify new sales opportunities, engage with potential clients, understand their needs, and guide them toward the right solutions via outbound calls and emails. As a Technical Sales Representative, you will be responsible for identifying robust sales opportunities, profiling prospective customers, discovering their needs and driving new business through various outbound and inbound campaigns focused on security.

You will help businesses work better together, move fast and innovate.

As a member of the Sales Development team, you will be the first point of contact for hundreds of businesses, proactively engaging them to build enthusiasm while identifying and qualifying their security business needs to propose adequate solutions and send them on the most appropriate Sales path. You will work towards individual targets, but will also be part of a larger sales team with a focus to grow our customer base across EMEA.

You will be in a phone-based environment, where you will interact with customers primarily via outbound calls.

• Hit quarterly Key Performance Metrics, and hit a target level of activity daily and weekly
• Manage a portfolio of assigned accounts to identify high potential prospects, primarily new business but also upsell
• Execute outbound prospecting to source, contact, and engage prospective customers
• Educate customers on what we have to offer
• Execute daily outbound phone calls and emails (mostly cold calling), contact C-level decision makers, build quick rapport and assess needs.
• Understand prospects’ pain points, gather technical requirements, correlate business needs to available Cloud solutions (solution-selling) and build value for next steps in the sales process
• Update and maintain prospect and customer data in (CRM database). Manage leads, contacts, accounts, opportunities and activities in
• Work towards team and individual goals for key performance indicators like productivity, conversion rates, opportunities and pipeline.

• BA/BS degree, technical degree desired
• C2 Level of French and C1 level of English
• Min. 3 years B2B Sales or Business development experience in outbound sales in the IT industry
• Understanding of cloud computing concepts, in particular Google Cloud Platform
• Ability to connect business needs with adequate solutions, strong business acumen
• Strong interpersonal skills, team player and a high level of integrity and professionalism
• Comfortable working against an assigned quota in a phone based environment
• Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth, rapidly changing environment
• Knowledge of CRM systems, ideally Salesforce
• Analytical mindset and go-getter attitude; self-motivated to achieve personal goals and goals set for the team
• Organized and has pipeline management, time management skills and prioritization skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to pitch on the phone and compose compelling proposals.
• IT skills: essential computer skills to navigate efficiently a computer based job

• Cloud certification
• B2B sales experience within Cloud
• Goal oriented, self-motivated individual who is proactive, confident competitive and tenacious
• Understanding of local market and local business environment

• Process Excellence:
  Systematically improving organizational processes to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and quality
• Collaboration:
  
  Working effectively with others, sharing ideas and resources to achieve common goals
• Communication:
  Exchanging information, ideas, and messages between individuals or groups through various channels and mediums.
• Emotional Intelligence:
  Understanding and managing one’s emotions and the…