Senior Named Account Executive, Emerging Markets

We are seeking a highly accomplished and strategic Account Executive to join our team in Dubai. As a Senior Named Account Executive, you will drive significant growth by leading comprehensive sales cycles within a portfolio of assigned enterprise-level clients, and strategically acquiring new logos.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Revenue Generation: Architect and execute advanced territory and account plans to consistently exceed multi-million dollar sales targets and annual quotas.
• Expert Pipeline & Forecasting: Lead proactive and strategic pipeline management efforts, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of sales cycles and customer buying processes.
• Deep Customer & IT Architecture Understanding: Develop a profound understanding of customers' IT architectures, including applications and third-party technologies.
• Multi-Engagement Leadership: Orchestrate and manage multiple complex customer engagements simultaneously across various business units within an organization.
• Virtual Team Leadership: Set clear direction and lead a virtual team of in-GEO specialists, Product Managers, Deal Desk, and Legal to collaboratively manage and close complex customer opportunities.
• Digital Transformation Authority: Act as an authority on digital transformation, understanding key drivers and the broader market trends influencing these decisions.
• Compelling Value Creation: Articulate highly compelling, strategic value propositions for Cloudflare's services, directly linking them to customer business outcomes and strategic objectives.
• Advanced Negotiation & Closure: Expertly lead and navigate complex contract negotiations, driving win-win scenarios for all parties.
• Trusted Advisor & Coach: Build long-term, executive-level strategic relationships, ensuring deep customer adoption, retention, and expansion.
• Organizational Impact & Leadership: Consistently focus on the long-term needs of the team and the business, understanding how decisions impact other teams and openly sharing these insights.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

• Fluency in Arabic and English. French is a plus.
• 10+ years of advanced experience selling complex related technology solutions to the biggest enterprise companies across Emerging Markets.
• Deep expertise and fluency in Cloud Networking, Security and Edge Computing technologies.
• Proven ability to deeply understand complex customer IT architectures and effectively map them to Cloudflare Reference Architectures for successful platform sales.
• Demonstrated success leading and influencing virtual cross-functional teams to drive complex deals to closure.
• Exceptional strategic communication and presentation skills.
• Advanced negotiation skills with a track record of closing large, complex, six-figure and multi-million dollar deals.