Account Executive, Sports

1 giorno fa

Varese, Lombardy, Italia Salesforce Tempo pieno

Overview

As a Senior Account Executive, you'll drive Salesforce growth in Italy's sports and betting segments, focusing on enterprise gaming, betting operators, and football clubs. You will map strategic opportunities, open doors with C-level stakeholders, and lead multi-cloud solutions including Data Cloud and Agentforce to transform fan engagement and monetisation. You'll operate as the territory's general manager, coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver measurable outcomes. This role blends entrepreneurship, industry credibility, and brand stewardship to shape Salesforce's footprint in a greenfield betting landscape and a thriving football ecosystem.

Retribuzione / Benefits

  • incentive component tailored by grade level

Responsabilità

  • Build and execute account plans for betting operators and football clubs, targeting net new logos and expansion
  • Open and accelerate opportunities with key decision makers (CEO, CMO, CDO, CIO, Head of CRM, Head of Fan Engagement, Chief Commercial Officer)
  • Act as a trusted advisor, understanding business challenges like fan engagement, ticketing, sponsorship and revenue growth
  • Lead multi-stakeholder sales cycles from first contact to close with compelling business cases
  • Orchestrate internal teams and partners to design winning strategies and deliver measurable outcomes
  • Maintain accurate pipeline and forecast, delivering against quota
  • Represent Salesforce at industry events and in Italian sports and gaming communities

Requisiti fondamentali

  • Degree or equivalent relevant experience
  • 6+ years of technology sales experience (Software/SaaS/Business Applications) in enterprise accounts
  • Established network within Italian gaming and betting industry
  • Proven track record of net new business in greenfield or under-penetrated territories
  • Experience managing long, complex sales cycles with large deals and multiple stakeholders (C-level)
  • Solid forecasting discipline and quota attainment in the Italian market
  • Fluent in Italian and English
  • interpersonal excellence
  • executive presence
  • strong storytelling skills
  • CRM, Customer Data Platforms, marketing automation or AI use cases in sports and entertainment
  • Data Cloud
  • Agentforce