Account Executive, Europe

ABOUT EARTHDAILY
EarthDaily is revolutionizing the way we understand and monitor our planet. Through cutting-edge Earth Observation (EO) technology and geospatial analytics, we provide unparalleled insights for industries ranging from agriculture to mining, insurance, and government intelligence. Our mission is to build the world's most advanced change detection system to capture, analyze, and interpret global shifts in near real-time.

OUR CREW
Our global, distributed team represents a variety of business lines and is made up of business development, sales, marketing and support professionals, data scientists, software engineers, project managers and finance, HR, and IT professionals. EarthDaily's Global Sales team is nimble and creative, and in preparation for launching frontier and disruptive products and services, we are building a wide and deep customer base for a variety of use cases. We are currently looking for an experienced, European-based Account Executive, Europe to join our crew
This is a remote position for a candidate located in Europe, ideally in Brussels, Belgium. All candidates must be eligible to work in their country of residence.
THE ROLE
The Account Executive, Europe is responsible for sales of EarthDaily's products within the Agro line of business. As a strategic planner and a creative thinker, the AE will leverage their existing contacts in the agri-business sector, market experience and all available tools and processes in order to achieve sales targets. Customers within their territory will predominately be comprised of large enterprise and government accounts. The ideal candidate will take a "hunter" approach, regularly prospecting to uncover and close new-logo business while developing opportunities for growth within existing customer accounts. The AE will continuously qualify new opportunities and by leveraging EDAs cross-functional team, will manage complex deals through the entire sales cycle to successfully maximize and close business. By acting as a trusted advisor and using a value-based selling approach, the AE will uncover the customers' true business pain/potential and align their value-drivers with EarthDaily's key differentiators to deliver positive business outcomes. The AE will also be expected to regularly report against their meticulously maintained opportunity pipeline and provide sales forecasts to EarthDaily's management. 
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive revenue growth by developing a pipeline and closing new-logo business while uncovering expansion opportunities within existing accounts. 
• Develop and execute against a territory sales plan. 
• Generate new logo and expansion business pipeline by employing demand-gen and pipeline-gen techniques/workflows. 
• Present and demonstrate the value of EarthDaily's products to its customers. 
• Accurately manage and forecast against an opportunity pipeline. 
• Work with cross-functional team as needed to support key activities such as pipeline generation efforts, closing business, and customer/account management. 
• Understand the market trends of your territory and advise to cross-functional teams (i.e. Marketing; Product; Partnerships; Executive). 
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with your customers. 
• Manage the contracting and procurement process. 
• Regularly educate customers on new use-cases, solutions, market trends etc. (be a trusted advisor and deliver commercial insight). 
• Conduct regular field activity (i.e. customer meetings, attend conferences/tradeshows/workshops. 
• Regularly achieve and exceed sales quota by meeting New-Logo, Expansion and Renewal business targets (TBC depending on the region). 

• University degree or equivalent in technical areas (Remote Sensing, Aerospace Engineering, Aeronautic, Physics, Geology, Geography, environmental science etc.) or Business, Administration or a related field will be considered an asset. 
• 5+ years' experience in a quota-carrying customer-facing role, selling a SaaS or highly technical solution in the Ag-Tech/Precision-Tech sector with a proven track record of regularly achieving and exceeding sales targets.
• Must be bilingual in English and have proficiency in one or more of French, German, Spanish, and Dutch. 
• Strong experience in developing and managing opportunities and closing business with large enterprise and government accounts.  
• Established professional networks in the European Ag-Tech/Agri-Business sector and EU/national agriculture agencies
• Candidates with experience in sales or technical roles involving remote sensing or geospatial data applications in agriculture will be more strongly considered. 

OUR SPACE (including travel)
We'd love to welcome you to the Sales team for this remote, European-based opportunity. Ours is a fun, fast-paced and exciting work environment where we hold earth-smart (living sustainably), creativity and innovation, proactive communication, diversity and accountability as core values. And just like space exploration - we're constantly evolving and pushing new boundaries.
This position has a substantial requirement for travel (50% of time) for sales meetings, inter-company training, off-sites, strategic planning, and for conferences/trade shows and event attendance.
Hours of work typically fall between 9:00am and 5:30pm Monday to Friday with periodic cross-over work required with other team members across a few time zones in addition to occasional evening and weekend work.