Lead Account Executive

BrightAnalytics is an ambitious, international scale-up that helps companies make their financial insights faster, better, and more visual. Our headquarters are located in Roeselare (Belgium), but with our five international sales hubs in Rotterdam, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Paris, our ambition is to become the European market leader. Are you a dynamic and entrepreneurial Lead Account Executive and would you like to play a key role in launching a successful SaaS business in a new country? You will be responsible for developing this new market in Denmark: from market development, creating the first customer base, to building/scaling/leading a winning team that drives business growth. Ready to help shape our story within the world of fintech? What are your responsibilities as a Lead Account Executive? This role requires a mix of strategic vision and hands-on, fast and relentless execution. You will play a pivotal role in the success of BrightAnalytics’ international expansion plan and will drive all the steps of country launch with a strong level of autonomy: Step 1 Market development

Step 2 Create customer base

Step 3 Building, scaling, leading a winning team

Market development Develop local expertise related to our ecosystem, sweet spot buyers and the management reporting landscape as such

Conduct a constant market analysis by experiencing it daily in the field

Actively contribute to the implementation/adjustment of the regional strategy and execute it at fast pace using a mix of sales and marketing levers

Work closely with other teams to deliver market insights, help identify and address business/product priorities and enable BrightAnalytics to stay ahead of the market

Maintain gameplans, playbooks and other content to make winning strategies scalable

Forecast revenue and potential business growth in the region

Create customer base Be the face of BrightAnalytics and make sure we gain visibility in your region

Generate leads via combined business-marketing development actions to fuel our sales pipe

Build and maintain successful relationships with prospects

Achieve and surpass your regional budget by guiding potential clients through our sales cycle and closing deals

Ensure that each local customer becomes an ambassador and generates opportunities using all available resources

Follow and report on predefined business KPIs

Building, scaling, leading Hire, train, lead and retain a top-performing team

Act as a coach to ensure that our global processes and best practices are being adopted in an efficient way

Motivate and inspire your team to achieve and surpass their goals and reach an overall high level of performance (raising the bar)

Protect/breath the team- and company culture (cfr. the way we do things)

Leading by example by closing deals and managing your own sales cycles

Facilitate/support group sales initiatives

Contribute to the improvement of the overall business

What is your added value to the sales team? You have a Master’s Degree in business and/or economics

You have a successful track record of minimum 5 years in a business/sales context or experience in a financial position with the desire to make the switch to an entrepreneurial sales/business challenge

Fluency in Danish is essential due to the platform’s complexity, and fluency in English is a must in our international environment

Being familiar with the local (business) culture is an asset

You have excellent organizational and communication skills

You have the ability to inspire people and let them be the best version of themselves

You’re an entrepreneurial-minded top performer with an internal drive to continuously hit goals and overachieve regional targets

You are resilient and you like challenges. You enjoy working in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment

The benefits of joining this fintech scale-up We are a financially healthy and ISO-certified scale-up with strong international growth ambitions

We have an open corporate culture with freedom to take initiative

You will be a pioneer and can make an impact!

With internal trainings and on-the-job coaching, we teach you unique skills that you can use in your further career

You are part of a driven, dynamic and enthusiastic team and you can also count on a job full of variety

A healthy work-life balance is also important to us

You will receive a competitive salary with bonuses

Pension plan

Friday after-work drinks, legendary team-buildings, and an annual weekend with the entire BrightAnalytics team

Join one of the fastest growing- and sustainable Belgian/European fintech companies today and launch your next career chapter!