Digital Account Executive

Smartly

Senior Account Executive will be reporting to the Director of Northern Europe, you will own and shape Smartly's Retail & Finance strategy across the UK market. This is more than a new business role - the Senior Account Executive will become the face of Smartly within the UK Retail & Finance industry, leveraging your executive network and market expertise to establish Smartly as the partner of choice for leading Finance & retailers. While Retail & Finance is the clear primary focus, experience and relationships within Financial Services and Automotive will be highly valued, enabling you to identify opportunities across adjacent enterprise verticals. The Senior Account Executive be empowered to operate with a high degree of autonomy while partnering closely with Product, Solution Consulting, Onboarding, Customer Success, Marketing, and Leadership to deliver exceptional customer outcomes. ABOUT SMARTLY Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming how brands create, manage, and optimize digital advertising. Our platform unifies media, creative, and intelligence to help the world's leading brands achieve exceptional business outcomes across today's largest digital channels. We're looking for an exceptional Senior Account Executive to become Smartly's Retail & Finance Industry Lead in the UK—a highly strategic role responsible for accelerating our growth within one of our most important verticals. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Lead Smartly's go-to-market strategy for the UK Retail & Finance sector, building our presence and reputation across enterprise Finance & retailers. * Develop and execute a strategic territory plan focused on acquiring and growing relationships with leading UK Retail & Finance brands. * Leverage an established network of senior decision-makers across Retail & Finance , with additional relationships in Financial Services and Automotive viewed as a significant advantage. * Build trusted relationships with C-level executives and senior leaders across Marketing, Digital, Finance , Media, and Technology. * Lead complex, consultative sales engagements from prospecting through negotiation and close. * Work seamlessly with cross-functional teams—including Product, Solution Consultants, Onboarding, and Customer Success—to ensure customers realise value throughout their journey. * Represent Smartly at industry events and become a recognised voice within the UK Retail & Finance ecosystem. * Deliver accurate forecasting and maintain a healthy pipeline across strategic enterprise accounts. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR REQUIRED * Significant experience driving enterprise sales and strategic customer growth within the UK market. * A well-established network of senior relationships across leading UK Retail &/or Finance organisations. * Experience gained within a high-growth SaaS company, advertising technology or marketing technology business, or at a leading digital or social media platform (such as Meta, TikTok, Snap, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google, or similar) * Demonstrated success navigating complex enterprise buying cycles and engaging executive stakeholders. * A highly autonomous, self-directed approach, with the ability to build pipeline and execute independently. * Exceptional collaboration skills, with a proven track record of partnering cross-functionally across Sales, Product, Solutions Consulting, Onboarding, and Customer Success. * Outstanding commercial acumen, executive presence, and consultative selling skills. PREFERRED * Additional experience or executive relationships within the Financial Services and/or Automotive sectors * Strong understanding of digital advertising, commerce, retail media, and the evolving AI-driven marketing landscape. SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE You are recognised as a trusted advisor within the Retail & Finance industry and bring credibility with senior decision-makers across the UK's largest brands. You thrive in an entrepreneurial environment where you have the freedom to shape strategy, build executive relationships, and influence outcomes. Equally comfortable working independently and collaborating across functions, you'll help position Smartly as the leading AI-powered advertising platform for UK Finance & retailers while unlocking growth opportunities across complementary sectors such as Financial Services and Automotive. ABOUT SMARTLY Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers. Smartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of it. Visit Smartly to learn more. The processing of your information is described in our Candidate Privacy Notice.

Contentful

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY As a Commercial Account Executive - DACH (f/m/d), you’ll drive Contentful’s growth by leading the end-to-end sales process with our top-tier clients. You’ll be instrumental in driving adoption and engagement, finding new revenue opportunities, and creating customer enablement initiatives within a few named accounts.  You’ll work closely with our partnership and customer success team to lead a consultative sales process, engaging with professional developers and business leaders in the DACH markets. This role will require you to be in our Central London office 4 times a week. WHAT TO EXPECT? * Self-generation of the pipeline through outbound motions in conjunction with marketing and partnership teams to help create new opportunities in regional accounts * Drive expansion opportunities with existing clients in the DACH (Germany, Austria & Switzerland) territory * Meet quarterly and annual sales goals by developing an account strategy and pipeline, managing internal and client processes, maintaining sales reports, developing market and competitor knowledge, delivering presentations to customers, and creating sales proposals * Manage RFI/RFQ requests with Contentful internal and customer teams * Refine and evolve our "land-and-expand" model in collaboration with Sales, Partnerships, and Customer Success teams * Seek to understand the digital experience challenges of prospects and clients while aligning the ROI of Contentful with those challenges to ensure a value-based selling approach * Work closely with Sales Engineers and Solution Architects to uncover technical challenges and opportunities * Develop innovative proposals, position complex pricing structures, and negotiate contracts and deal-closing requirements quickly and efficiently * Work closely with customer success & marketing teams to ensure that best practices of Contentful are shared and implemented at the respective customer WHAT DO YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL? * 3+ years of experience selling a technical platform working as a Sales Development Representative (SDR), Business Development Representative (BDR), and/or Account Executive * 1+ years of individual quota-carrying experience * 1+ years of growing and expanding existing customer accounts  * Demonstrated expertise in closing $20-80k+ opportunities * Ability to drive your own pipeline generation with outbound capabilities * Fluent German language skills  NICE TO HAVE: * Experience working with Partner ecosystems to work with customers. * Understanding and experience working in product-led growth sales motions WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU? * Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences * Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company * Comprehensive healthcare package, health/dental/vision care package covering 100% of monthly health premiums for employees and 85% of costs for your dependents * Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family * We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days,  education days, compassion days for loss, and volunteer days * Time off to care for and focus on your growing family  * Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career * Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties  * An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health * A monthly communication phone/internet stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement * New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best WHO ARE WE? Contentful is a leading digital experience platform that helps modern businesses meet the growing demand for engaging, personalized content at scale. By blending composability with native AI capabilities, Contentful enables dynamic personalization, automated content delivery, and real-time experimentation, powering next-generation digital experiences across brands, regions, and channels for more than 4,200 organizations worldwide. More than 700 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, Denver, San Francisco, London, New York, and distributed worldwide. EVERYONE IS WELCOME HERE! “Everyone is welcome here” is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful, we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability, or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us! If you need reasonable accommodations at any point during the application or interview process, please let your recruiting coordinator know. Please be aware of scammers who may fraudulently allege to be from Contentful. These types of fraud can be carried out through copycat websites, fake email addresses claiming to be from our company, or social media. We do not ask for your personal information, such as bank account numbers, identification numbers, etc, through social media or chat-based apps, nor do we request or send money for the purchase of business equipment. If you suspect fraud, please report it to your local authorities, as well as reach out to us at security-esk@contentful.com with any information you may have. By clicking “Apply for this job,” I acknowledge that I have read the “Contentful’s Candidate Privacy Notice” and hereby consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of my personal information as described therein.

Ivalua

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE  (London- UK) Founded in 2000, Ivalua is a leading global provider of cloud-based procurement solutions. COMPANY OVERVIEW At Ivalua we are a global community of exceptional professionals, who believe that digital transformation revolutionizes supply chain sustainability and resiliency to unlock the power of supplier collaboration.  We achieve this through our leading cloud-based spend management platform that empowers hundreds of the world's most admired brands to effectively manage all categories of spend and all suppliers to increase profitability, improve ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) performance, lower risk, and improve productivity. Driven by our passions and fueled by our shared ambitions, we empower and challenge each other to create meaningful experiences for our colleagues, customers, partners, and communities.  Learn more at www.ivalua.com. Follow us on LinkedIn  THE OPPORTUNITY CONTEXT: Our sales team in the UK/I region is made up of 3 AEs. The team is responsible for growing sales and acquiring new customers for the UK and Ireland territory. We are experiencing strong growth and are looking for our future Account Executive. ROLE: As an Ivalua Account Executive you will be focused on new customer acquisition within your assigned territory.  Our Account Executives are motivated, tenacious, self-starters who are experienced selling Enterprise SaaS/Cloud Enterprise Software into Senior Level Executives and owning the sales process from beginning to end.  WHAT YOU WILL DO WITH US * Exceed annual sales targets * Develop an Enterprise Account Plan for each account, then drive the execution of that plan to success * Prospecting, building pipeline, and selling Ivalua Solutions to net new Enterprise accounts * Engage with C-level executives to position strategic value proposition and quarterback the deal to closure * Provide pro-active, trusted thought leadership to target accounts * Orchestrate prospect and internal teams to collaboratively build Customer Strategy Plans * Develop and deliver world-class Executive Sales proposals to C-level prospects * Accurate forecasting (benchmark +/- 10%) * Maintain the system of record within our internal system YOUR PROFILE If you have the below experience and strengths this role could be for you: Skills and Experience: * Minimum 5+ years of direct enterprise software sales experience * Procurement or Supply Chain domain knowledge * Expert selling value to the enterprise * Consistent and proven track record of achieving / exceeding sales quota * Strong executive presence – very comfortable with C-level executives * Expertise in managing multi-stakeholder sales cycles and closing large deals * Ability to prospect within greenfield accounts * Organized and specific experience with enterprise account planning * Ability to identify strategic client pains and develop unique and compelling value propositions that focus on delivering business value to the client * Successful at engaging with all levels in an organization, great at building relationships and working within a team-selling environment Soft Skills : * Excellent communication skills * Fluent English skills  WHAT HAPPENS NEXT If your application fits this specific position’s needs, our skilled Talent team will reach out to schedule an initial screening call. Get one step closer to achieving your goals – apply today!  Our Talent team will guide you through every step of the interview process - from preparation to completion. They're here to support you!  Our recruitment process is designed to assess your competencies through a series of personalized interviews with internal stakeholders relevant to the role.  Interviews will be conducted virtually via video or on-site with face-to-face meetings. LIFE AT IVALUA * Hybrid working model (3 days in the office per week) * We're a team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of product innovation and technology * Sustainable Growth, Privately Held * A stable and cash-flow positive Company since 10 years * Snacks and weekly lunches in the office * Feel empowered to pursue your goals with improved team collaboration and increased creativity/productivity * Unlock and unleash your full professional potential with our exceptional training and career development program * Join a dynamic and international team of top-notch professionals who are experts in their respective fields. Collaborate with like-minded individuals who are deeply passionate and highly motivated about their work. Experience a truly diverse and inclusive work environment where your unique contributions are highly valued * Regular social events, competitive outings, team running events, and musical activities, * Comparably recognized Ivalua for the following (https://www.comparably.com/companies/ivalua) : Powered by People - Powered by You! United by our values we embrace diversity and equity in the broadest possible sense to create an inclusive workplace. To help our customers make supply chains more efficient, sustainable and resilient, we rely on a global team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. We believe in equal opportunity and in diversity as a driver of innovation that cultivates a spirit of inclusiveness, creates a productive and fun place to work, and provides fulfilling career opportunities for all Ivaluans. https://www.linkedin.com/company/ivalua/about/ Experience life at Ivalua - check out our captivating video! Gain insight into our unique company culture and get a glimpse of what it's like to work with us. #LI-AY1 #LI-HYBRID