Account Director, Retail

About Bazaarvoice At Bazaarvoice, we create smart shopping experiences. Through our expansive global network, product-passionate community & enterprise technology, we connect thousands of brands and retailers with billions of consumers. Our solutions enable brands to connect with consumers and collect valuable user-generated content, at an unprecedented scale. This content achieves global reach by leveraging our extensive and ever-expanding retail, social & search syndication network. And we make it easy for brands & retailers to gain valuable business insights from real-time consumer feedback with intuitive tools and dashboards. The result is smarter shopping: loyal customers, increased sales, and improved products. The problem we are trying to solve : Brands and retailers struggle to make real connections with consumers. It's a challenge to deliver trustworthy and inspiring content in the moments that matter most during the discovery and purchase cycle. The result? Time and money spent on content that doesn't attract new consumers, convert them, or earn their long-term loyalty. Our brand promise : closing the gap between brands and consumers. Founded in 2005, Bazaarvoice is headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.  It’s official: Bazaarvoice is a Great Place to Work in the US , Australia, India, Lithuania, France, Germany and the UK!
Bazaarvoice is looking for an experienced sales professional to grow, develop and retain a portfolio of key retailers in the French market. This is a hybrid role of driving new revenue with new prospects, up- and cross-selling with existing business, and driving retention with existing retail customers. This strategic role is at the core of Bazaarvoice value proposition.

Primary Duties of the Role:

• Pipeline generation to grow the revenue within existing accounts and generate opportunities with new accounts.
• Ability to manage and grow a territory with accurate and realistic forecasting.
• Working collaboratively internally with teams (marketing, customer success etc.) to align on client and Bazaarvoice goals.
• Partnering with internal regional and global stakeholders within the client to deliver clear ROI and build a joint plan to drive additional customer value and Bazaarvoice revenue.

Skills and Experience Necessary for the Role:

• A retail franchise ‘CEO’. Somebody passionate about selling high impact e-commerce solutions to large retailers, who is adaptable and confident speaking at many levels within existing and new prospect accounts.
• Confident but not complacent in selling our industry-leading solution in a competitive marketplace.
• An exceptional relationship builder with the ability to work across departments on the client’s side and bring their teams together over a unified solution delivering excellent value for the client and a secure long term relationship for Bazaarvoice.

Requirements - essential;

• 5+ years sales experience selling into eCommerce, digital or SaaS.
• Follows a proven sales methodology. We use an adapted version of MEDIC which we’ll give you full training on, but we expect knowledge and experience of a recognised sales methodology.
• Proven track-record of over achieving quota, and clear demonstrable experience of building champions in new and existing accounts.
• French and English speaker.

Requirements - nice to have;

• A professional network within the French retail environment.
• Additional language skills.

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