Location: Hybrid - London, Lisbon, Munich or Amsterdam
About the DepartmentAccount 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
This role will focus on both the acquisition of prospective customers, in addition to the expansion of existing customer accounts. You will work a set of target accounts in the Digital Natives and or the Commercial sub-segments. 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.
Focus: Central Eastern EuropeNOTE: Candidates must have experience with the following regions/countries: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan
Key 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.
- Direct B2B sales experience, adept at new business acquisition and account management.
- Experience selling a technical, cloud-based product or service
- Working knowledge of the cloud infrastructure and security space
- Solid understanding of computer networking and Internet functioning.
- Keenness for learning technical concepts/terms. Technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS is advantageous.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills (both verbal and written) and organizational skills
- Self-motivated with an entrepreneurial spirit.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
- Willingness to travel frequently to visit customers and prospects
- Fluency in Russian
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What We Do
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
Why Work With Us
Cloudflare employees come from all walks of life. We are mission-driven, and our team is energized by a collaborative, creative environment that celebrates our differences and fosters new ways to grow together.
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