Senior Commercial Account Executive, Israel in London

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!

Location: Hybrid - London, Lisbon, Munich or Amsterdam

About The Department

Account Executives, Channel Account Managers, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, Customer Success, and Sales Operations - all working together help our customers adopt Cloudflare and create great Internet-enabled experiences. The sales team at Cloudflare helps customers solve real, technical problems while creating the revenue streams that help the company provide free service to millions in our community.

About This Role

The Senior Commercial Account Executive position effectively delivers the full sales cycle from prospecting to negotiating and closing sales with new & existing customers in line with business plans. Identify and progress cross-sell opportunities to maximise revenue goals. Selling new products and generating additional sales revenue through effective sales outreach activity.

The ideal candidate will possess both a sales and technical background that enables them to drive engagement from administrative through executive levels within network operations, development and technical infrastructure teams.

Regional Focus: Israel

The Ideal Candidate:

• Passionate about sales: You have a hunger to win and a desire to exceed your targets and reap the rewards.
• Strong customer service skills: You put the client first, and you do what you say you’ll do.
• Personable, resilient and a culture champion: A friendly, warm and professional demeanour will get you far. You celebrate the ups and bounce back quickly from your missteps.
• Cool and calm under pressure: The ability to effectively manage competing priorities and solve multiple problems quickly is in your DNA.

Main Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive account/territory plan to achieve quarterly sales and annual revenue targets in a defined territory and/or account list.
• Drive new business acquisition (new customer logos), customer expansion (upsell and cross-sell Cloudflare solutions), and renewal within your territory.
• Build a robust sales pipeline through continual engagement and nurturing of key prospect accounts.
• Understand customer use-cases and how they pair with Cloudflare’s portfolio solutions in order to identify new sales opportunities.
• Craft and communicate compelling value propositions for Cloudflare services. Drive awareness through regular outbound campaigns on product and feature roadmap updates.
• Effectively scale the territory with partners.
• Accurately forecast commercial outcomes by running a consistent sales process, including driving next step expectations and contract negotiations.
• As a trusted advisor, build long-term strategic relationships with key accounts, to ensure customer adoption, retention and expansion. Regularly evaluate usage trends and articulate value to show Cloudflare impact and provide strategic recommendations during business reviews.
• Network across different business units with each of your accounts, and multi-thread to identify and engage new divisional buyers.
• Position Cloudflare's platform in each of your target customers, including Cloudflare One and the Connectivity Cloud to realize our full potential in every customer.
• Operate internally as a liaison with cross-functional teams to share key customer feedback and insights to improve customer experience and further investments with Cloudflare.

Knowledge/Experience:

• Fluency in Hebrew.
• 6+ years of B2B selling experience and selling Enterprise Software or SaaS (network security preferred) or Hardware solutions and services to Mid-Enterprise/Enterprise customers.
• Relevant direct experience, track record, and relationships within enterprise and mid-market accounts in the territory.
• New Business & Expansion experience managing longer, complex sales cycles.
• Fast paced environment experience.
• Enterprise IT/Cyber Security background.
• Aptitude for learning technical concepts/terms (Technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS a plus).

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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