COO Central Europe

Introduction

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Job Description

This executive role is being newly created to support the continued growth and transformation of our EMEA South business. Reporting into the EMEA COOorganization, the COO Central Europe will serve as the primary deputy to theSVPof Central Europe — present in the field, engaged with customers, and accountable for business outcomes across a diverse, multicultural region (Germany, Switzerland, Austria and CEE countries).

The role sits at the heart of the Central Europe leadership team, working in close partnership withCore Sales, Solution Consulting, Solution Sales, Marketing, Customer Excellence Group, GPC, other key GTM functionsand more importantly with the Chief of Staff and the Strategic Pursuit Lead. Where the Chief of Staff ensures the operational engine of the region runs effectively and GTM programs land with discipline, and the Strategic Pursuit Lead coordinates the region’s most complex deals, the COO’s focus is squarely on customer impact, field leadership, and revenue performance.

The right person gets their energy from winning — from building relationships at the C-suite, from helping teams close transformational deals, and from raising the bar on what the region can achieve.

In this role you will

Act as deputy to theSVPof Central Europe representingthe regional leadership in customer meetings, executive briefings, internal reviews, and strategic external engagements

Drive business performance across Central Europe,holdingtheorganizationaccountable for targets and outcomes alongside theSVP

Overlook Central EuropeStrategic planning, demand generation plan, pipelineexcellenceand customer adoption by coordinating and giving direction to the extended South leadership team.

Represent EMEA COO office in the Centralregion by ensuring execution of Pan EMEA initiatives and decisions.

Build and sustain senior relationships with customer executives across the region, reinforcing ServiceNow’s value at the highest levels of key accounts

Engage on strategic pursuits at the executive level, providing senior sponsorship and customer presence while partnering with the Strategic Pursuit Lead on deal structure and process

Champion talent development across the region,identifyingand growing the next generation of leaders in partnership with country managers

Represent Central Europein EMEA-wide and global leadership forums, actively sharing and seeking best practice across Major Areas and GEOs

Your profile

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you have:

Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.

5+ years’ experiencein field sales management,in a matrixed sales environment in the enterprise software space

Strong operational mindset with a focus on building organizations to scale in a cross-functional capacity

A consistent track record of meeting and exceeding team quotas

Experience attracting, retaining, and developing high performing, high potential talent through assessing, selecting, onboarding, coaching, and developing

A historyofdemonstratedskills of salesoperational best practices

Strong forecasting and reporting capabilities

Strong Program Management skills and a history of building out sales programs to support Field Sales teams

Strong organization, communication, team work, presentation, problem solving and time management skills

Experience inspiring the team to follow defined best practices

The ability to navigate and collaborate through complex opportunities

A competitive, can do, optimistic, realistic attitude, strong work ethic, humility and excellent team building communication and listening skills

The willingness and ability to travel 50% of the time

We offer

JV20

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