Account Manager - French Territory (Business or native French language skills essential)
Global software distribution company, with expertise in the field of statistics, forecasting applications, training and consultancy solutions, requires an experienced Account Manager, to support with sales and marketing for France. In this busy role, you will handle overall responsibility for promotional marketing plans in order to deliver full sales services to existing customers as well as new business opportunities.
Based in offices local to Richmond, Surrey, you will get the benefits of working 4 days/32 hours a week (Monday to Thursday) salary of circa 45k + bonus
As Account Manager, some of your key responsibilities will include:
- Working alongside the team to develop 12 month promotional plans and communicate with the offices worldwide
- Organise demos with customers, prospecting to potential accounts
- Management of sales, maximising upgrade sales of clients who have previously purchased
- Maximise the cross selling of training & software sales
- Coordination of international training
- Identify and pitch for new business opportunities within training and software sales
To fulfil the role of Account Manager you will have/be:
- Fluent business or native French
- Experience travelling and conducting business in France
- Proven experience working within technical or software sales
- Ability to operate at a senior level and manage and organise the team
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
- Senior presentation skills
- Attention to detail
- Salesforce experience desirable
- Happy to travel
Immediate start, permanent job - office based in Surrey.