Named Account Executive

Job summary
Permanent contract
Amsterdam
Fully-remote
Salary: Not specified
Experience: > 3 years
Skills & expertise
Sales enablement
.NET
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Job description

  • As a Named Account Executive for Public Sector Netherlands, you are the primary Salesforce representative for our entire portfolio of products across Local Government accounts in the Netherlands — including municipalities, provinces, regional authorities, and public service bodies
  • You own the full sales cycle, from pipeline generation to close, and act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders within these organizations
  • Own and grow a account portfolio across Dutch Local Government
  • Develop and execute multi-year account strategies aligned to each customer’s digital transformation priorities
  • Drive new business and expansion revenue by identifying, qualifying, and closing opportunities across the Salesforce platform (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, MuleSoft, Tableau, Digital, Slack, Public Sector Solutions)
  • Build and maintain executive-level relationships with CxOs, digital transformation leads, procurement officers, and IT leaders
  • Collaborate with Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, Customer Success, Professional Services, Business Value Selling and Partner Ecosystem to co-create compelling solutions tailored to public sector needs
  • Lead complex, multi-stakeholder procurement processes — including Tender/RFP
  • Accurately forecast pipeline, revenue and renewals in line with business cadences, while creating satisfied customers
  • Represent Salesforce at industry events, government networks, and digital government initiatives in the Netherlands
  • Evangelize the salesforce vision through product demonstrations, in-market events, and account specific initiatives
  • Generate short term results whilst maintaining a long term perspective to improve overall revenue generation

Benefits

  • Medical Care
  • Life Insurance
  • Retirement Savings
  • Employee Assistance Programs
  • With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year

Preferred experience

  • Eager to contribute to the Salesforce culture and join the Ohana
  • Self-starter mentality with strong commercial mindset
  • Proven ability to navigate complex, consensus-driven buying organizations and long sales cycles
  • Successful history of net new business sales (selling direct & indirect), with the ability to prove consistent delivery against targets
  • Strong understanding of the Dutch government landscape — how municipalities and provinces operate, their procurement processes, and current digital transformation agendas (e.g., Common Ground, VNG, BIO)
  • A proven track record of sales outperformance across Public Sector Netherlands, with specialized expertise in Local Government
  • Proven experience of selling enterprise software of SaaS solutions, ideally business applications gained within a major software vendor or system integrator
  • Executive presence and communication skills — you’re as comfortable in a boardroom as you are in a discovery call
  • Fluency in Dutch and English (both required)
  • Credibility at all levels and evidence of building positive relationships internally and with the customer

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