Enterprise Account Executive

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Hiring Remotely in Paris, Île-de-France, FRA
In-Office or Remote
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The Role
The Enterprise Account Executive drives quota attainment by selling complex software solutions to large enterprise accounts. Responsibilities include developing strategic account plans, creating sales campaigns, managing cross-functional teams and partners, presenting financial and technical business cases, negotiating contracts, and closing six- and seven-figure deals. The role requires deep storage or data management industry knowledge, enterprise software sales success, executive-level communication, and experience managing integrated selling teams.
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About Commvault

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) delivers continuous recovery for the AI era. We help organizations stay ready for constant disruption by returning critical data, applications, identities, and AI systems to a clean, trusted state. Our purpose-built recovery solutions span cloud-native and hybrid environments, leveraging AI to enable resilience at enterprise scale.

The Enterprise Account Executive is responsible for achieving quota by selling solutions into a defined account list that may include current Commvault customers and high value prospects. The position is a field sales role where the AE will engage in face-to-face sales with customers and prospects either directly or through partners. The Account Executive plans, organizes, leads and controls balanced sales growth, account penetration and customer satisfaction on a long-term multi-quarter basis. This individual may lead a cross-functional sales team and is responsible for creating sales campaigns to penetrate/expand his/her target accounts. The AE must have the ability to articulate an in-depth understanding of the customers’ environment, current challenges/goals and have the ability to align Commvault solutions to those challenges/goals including a financial and strategic value proposition. The candidate must have a history of success in selling complex software platforms (vs. IT component or narrow focused tools) and should have some level of prior engagement with the target account set.

Position Responsibilities

  • Achieve quarterly and annual quotas by selling to new and established – large, complex prospects and customer.
  • Develop and implement Strategic account plans for target account expansion and new account acquisition including performance objectives, financial targets, and critical milestones for a one and three-year period.
  • Create sale campaigns into target accounts and closely coordinate company executive involvement with customer/prospect leadership.
  • Coordinate the involvement of company personnel, including support, service, and management resources, in order to meet account performance objectives and customers’ expectations.
  • Manage a matrixed sales team; liaison with clients, Deal Desk, inside sales, partners, channels, sales engineers, professional services, finance and legal to drive a prospect to close
  • Establish and maintain a productive, professional relationship with key personnel in assigned customer/prospect accounts.
  • Construct and deliver tangible business cases at the CXO level including financial (ROI & TCO), technical and strategic value propositions
  • Prepare and present sales proposals and presentations to new and existing clients
  • Identify and build strategic relationships with partners and alliances that have existing relationships with the assigned target accounts
  • Negotiate and close deals following the company’s practices and processes
  • Ensure orders meet all legal and financial requirements
  • Maintain a high level of relevant industry, Commvault and competitive knowledge
  • Plan, attend and coordinate executive briefings
  • Leverage internal sales tools and processes to drive opportunities to a successful close.

Position Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and proven sales experience.
  • Demonstrable success in software sales at the enterprise level; selling six-and-seven figure deals and managing an integrated selling team
  • Experience in the storage management industry
  • Deep understanding of the storage management or data management industry, products, competitors, history, emerging trends and changing marketplace
  • Minimum of two years success in identifying, building relationships and selling directly or with partners
  • Excellent communication skills, persuasive, listening skills
  • Background in IT infrastructure; SaaS Experience Preferred

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Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree
  • Proven sales experience
  • Demonstrable success in enterprise-level software sales
  • Experience selling six- and seven-figure deals
  • Experience managing an integrated selling team
  • Experience in the storage management industry
  • Deep understanding of the storage management or data management industry, products, competitors, history, trends, and marketplace
  • Minimum two years of success identifying prospects, building relationships, and selling directly or through partners
  • Excellent communication, persuasive, and listening skills
  • Background in IT infrastructure
  • SaaS experience

Commvault Systems, Inc. Compensation & Benefits Highlights

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  • Healthcare Strength — Healthcare options are broad, with multiple medical plan choices alongside dental, vision, mental‑health resources, and fertility support. These offerings, paired with EAP and wellbeing tools, are often regarded as a strong part of the package.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes manager‑approved Freedom PTO, paid holidays, and sick time. The breadth and flexibility are commonly seen as strengths.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase plan with a discounted, look‑back feature provides accessible ownership upside. This equity component is often viewed as a standout element of the total package.

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The Company
HQ: Tinton Falls, NJ
3,464 Employees
Year Founded: 1996

What We Do

Commvault's data protection and information management solutions provide mid- and enterprise-level organizations worldwide with a significantly better way to get value from their data Commvault can help companies protect, access and use all of their data, anywhere and anytime, turning data into a powerful strategic asset.

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