What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Account Executive - East Europe position at Backbase?
The job in short
It all started in 2003 in Amsterdam, with just two people, our founder Jouk Pleiter and a partner, who had a shared vision to ‘make the internet more beautiful’. Fast-forward 16 years later, and we are the backbone of over 100 banks all around the world and part of the day-to-day banking experience of over 70 million people.
We’re on a mission to serve 10% of all smartphone users worldwide with a Backbase-powered financial app. Yes, that means 400 million people (ambitious!). But we see it as exploring millions of initiatives and flexing our brainpower. With us so far? What will you bring to make us stronger?
Are you ready to play Champions League and work with leading banks around the world, closing 1 million Euro deals?
Meet the job
You will carry your own sales quota within CEE sales Team. Based on your quota you will set objectives and plan accordingly to achieve targets. Backbase is expanding and there is no doubt that we have the best possible solution in our niche market. How would you bring Backbase more business?
Being a Senior Account Executive at Backbase is an exciting and international role.This is an ideal position if you have 5-8 year hunter-sales experience and want to work in a flexible, informal and fast paced working environment, enabling you to travel the world (30%-50% of your time) and empower you to grow as a sales professional. You report directly to the Regional VP Sales.
You understand customer business drivers and know how to establish buy-in at all levels (sales management, delivery leads and senior/executive management). You will identify and qualify new regional sales opportunities and effectively run a sales cycle. Collaborating closely with our demand gen specialist and pre-sales experts you will prepare RFPs, deep dives, pitches and POCs and work towards closing 1 million deals.
Next to that you will develop active partner relationships in the assigned region that result in net new software business. Facilitate partner and Backbase sales team alignment, target account nomination and opportunity planning to drive joint license (Backbase) and service (partner) wins.
How about you?
- You are a Sales person by heart and fluent in English;
- Your track record in meeting sales targets speaks for itself and you have demonstrated success before in managing executive relationships with partners and/or customers.
- You’ll fit right in our innovative, team-oriented, can-do culture
About Backbase
Backbase creates the best digital banking solutions on the planet, enabling our clients to deliver superior online and mobile customer experiences. We are a global, young-spirited, diverse (45 nationalities), fast-growing and leading fintech company. Agile is our middle name and we love pushing innovation in the digital banking world. We make it work.
And we’re not done innovating just yet. Our 600 employees work together on better and more advanced products. As we are in scale up phase, we don’t believe in simply “doing our jobs”. We’ve always got room for new, creative talent to push us further. What will you bring to make us stronger?
We are organized to support you. You will receive time to educate yourself and will work with some of the best specialists in the business. Having fun is allowed at Backbase :-). We are work and play. At Backbase, you can come as you are and say it like it is.
Join us for a journey instead of a job!