Strategic Account Manager / Responsable De Comptes Stratégiques

Working at The Adaptavist Group
The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.Working at The Adaptavist Group
The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow. We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, monday.Com and Aha! We make change happen. From anywhere.What We Offer You
We offer a very generous holiday (PTO) allowance, trusting you to take vacation time that suits your personal life, alongside flexible working hours that empower you to work when it best fits you and your team. We provide MacBooks to all employees and additional support for fully remote workers to set up their home offices. Our exceptional Time Away Policy includes 26 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents, 13 weeks for non-birthing parents, and extended leave for adoption, IVF, surrogacy, elective egg freezing, and women's health needs such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, and PCOS. Our trusting, flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work. Read our full list of benefitsDescription Du Poste
About the role
The Strategic Account Manager for NAMER drives profitable growth across a portfolio of Adaptavist's most strategically important enterprise customers, working in close partnership with a Strategic Account Director. The role is accountable for executing account growth plans, building multi-threaded stakeholder relationships, generating and progressing pipeline, and helping to expand Adaptavist's footprint across the enterprise. The Strategic Account Manager coordinates across Presales, Delivery, Customer Success and strategic partners to move opportunities forward and deliver meaningful customer outcomes. This role would suit commercially ambitious professionals who want to build the skills, relationships and commercial track record required to grow into a Strategic Account Director.What You'll Be Doing
Strategic account development
Support the Strategic Account Director in developing and executing multi-year strategic account plansMaintain a detailed, current understanding of customer organisational structures, priorities and transformation programmesIdentify opportunities to expand Adaptavist's footprint across business units and technology domainsTrack account health, stakeholder changes and competitive dynamics on an ongoing basisPipeline generation & value-based selling
Build and maintain a pipeline within assigned strategic accounts through structured, account-based engagementDevelop customer-specific points of view that connect Adaptavist's capabilities to identifiable business outcomesLead discovery across stakeholder layers to uncover business problems, drivers and decision criteriaBuild commercial proposals and business cases anchored in measurable customer outcomesApply MEDDPICC consistently across all qualified opportunities to maintain qualification disciplineStakeholder & relationship management
Build multi-threaded relationships across customer organisations, spanning both technology and business stakeholdersIdentify and develop champions, maintaining active relationships with influencers and decision makersSupport the Strategic Account Director in establishing and maintaining Economic Buyer and executive accessDevelop a clear understanding of stakeholder motivations, organisational dynamics and decision‑making processesPartner collaboration
Participate in joint account planning with strategic partners, including Atlassian, GitLab, Harness, AWS, IBM and DatadogIdentify and develop partner-sourced opportunities within assigned accountsBuild credibility and working relationships within the partner ecosystemSupport partner-involved deal execution with attention to commercial structure and marginForecasting & commercial discipline
Maintain consistently high CRM hygiene and accurate, timely opportunity dataEnsure forecast accuracy through rigorous qualification and active pipeline managementParticipate in account reviews, pipeline reviews and QBRs with clear articulation of risks, opportunities and dependenciesManage opportunities efficiently from qualification through to closure, coordinating internal resources effectivelyQualifications
What we're looking for
Demonstrable experience in enterprise technology sales, consulting services or software sales, with evidence of consistently achieving commercial targetsProven ability to generate and progress pipeline independently, not only respond to inbound demand or support more senior sellersExperience managing sales opportunities involving multiple stakeholders, with an understanding of how to navigate complex buying processesAbility to develop customer‑centric points of view that connect solutions to business outcomes, rather than leading with product or feature descriptionsStrong discovery skills: able to ask effective questions, listen actively and uncover motivations across different stakeholder typesExperience building and maintaining relationships across multiple levels within a customer organisation simultaneouslyClear commercial acumen: understands margin, deal structure and the difference between activity and value‑generating pipelineStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to construct coherent commercial narratives for different audiencesA few nice to haves
Experience working within or alongside the Atlassian ecosystem, or a closely comparable enterprise technology partner ecosystem (GitLab, Harness, AWS, Datadog, IBM)Exposure to Developer Experience, DevOps, Service Management, AI adoption or Cloud transformation programmes — either as a seller or from a delivery/consulting backgroundWorking knowledge of a structured sales qualification methodology such as MEDDPICC or comparable, with evidence of consistent applicationExperience contributing to or executing joint account plans with technology partnersEarly evidence of economic buyer or C‑suite access within enterprise accountsExperience in a services‑led or professional services selling environmentWhat To Expect
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From our family-friendly policies to our flexible work environment we offer a range of benefits and policies in order to support staff from all different backgrounds. If you have any questions, please do ask us. Check out our WORK180 page. Check out our Flexa page.Equal opportunities for everyone
At The Adaptavist Group, we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community and believe this positively impacts both the creation of our innovative products and our delivery of bespoke solutions to our global customers and our own unique culture. We encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage, and civil partnership status.Égalité des chances pour tous
Chez The Adaptavist Group, nous nous engageons à promouvoir une communauté diversifiée et inclusive et sommes convaincus que cela a un impact positif sur la création de nos produits innovants, la fourniture de solutions sur mesure à nos clients internationaux et notre culture unique. Nous encourageons toutes les candidatures qualifiées, quels que soient leur âge, leur handicap, leur origine ethnique, leur orientation sexuelle, leur religion ou leurs convictions, leur sexe, leur identité de genre, leur état civil, leur grossesse et leur maternité.
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