Senior Account Executive (South-West territory, based in Bordeaux/Toulouse)
Veeam SoftwareBordeaux, FrancePosted 21 March 2026
Job Description
Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.
The Senior Account Executive for the South-West region (Toulouse, Bordeaux) will be responsible for developing/closing business indirectly with a number of customers in their assigned market territory through working with the partner sales community. The primary focus is aimed at closing sales opportunities and is achieved by collaborating with partners to identify, develop, accelerate, up-sell and close transactions.
Location : The candidate must be located in the South-West region (Toulouse, Bordeaux).
What You’ll Do
Develop and close business with accounts
Leverage partners to close sales with their end customers
Cold calls to develop sales activities with a large number of new mid-market and high-segment end users
Up-sell and cross-sell to the existing customer base
Forecasts and account/opportunity details in SalesForce
Propose, coordinate and participate to marketing activities in the defined territory
What You’ll Bring:
Fluent in English and French
Direct, new business sales experience
Experience with vendors associated with Virtualization technology is a plus
Have experience of selling through channel and direct
Track record of accomplishment selling to the IT infrastructure specialists
Proven ability to develop new sales
Be a self-starter with the ability to learn quickly
Be a high-energy salesperson
Be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where roles and responsibilities change quickly
Be comfortable travelling for at least 50% of the time.
Current full driving license
What you´ll get:
25 paid vacation days plus RTT days, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
Mandatory public health insurance with broad medical coverage
Employer-paid private medical, dental, optical, and wellness plan through Axa, with options for dependents
Life insurance with enhanced coverage above the Social Security ceiling
Education pension for dependent children up to age 26 if in full-time education
State and supplementary pension contributions by Veeam
Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning
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