CONNECT Cloud Platform Account Manager

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Job Title: CONNECT Cloud Platform Account Manager

Location: Paris, FR - Hybrid

Employment Type: Full-time  

The job

The CONNECT Platform Specialist is a high-impact, revenue-driving role at the forefront of AVEVA’s most strategic growth initiative: the CONNECT Platform. As an integral part of this CONNECT commercial team, you won’t just sell—you’ll help define how we bring this platform to market. You’ll be responsible for building and executing a winning sales strategy that delivers measurable customer value and drives ARR growth.

This is a role for a results-oriented enterprise seller who thrives in fast-moving environments. You bring the full spectrum of enterprise sales skills—strategic prospecting, value-based selling, and deal closing—paired with a strong ability to grow accounts through stakeholder enablement and platform adoption. This role goes beyond achieving sales targets; it's about building long-term customer value, expanding product adoption, and accelerating AVEVA’s next wave of growth. Your insights will directly influence our sales motion, customer playbooks, and broader go-to-market strategy.

Key responsibilities: 

Enterprise Selling & Commercial Execution

•    Own commercial outcomes-including pipeline generation, opportunity progression, and ARR achievement- for a portfolio of target accounts

•    Identify and qualify business-case-driven opportunities for CONNECT platform products, using a consultative, MEDDPICC-informed sales process

•    Engage technical and business stakeholders (at a senior level and cross-functionally) to build strong buying coalitions and drive collaboration

•    Drive and close new SaaS/Cloud platform deals, with a focus on land-and-expand strategies

•    Negotiate commercial terms in alignment with value delivered, usage patterns, and strategic fit

Platform Adoption & Value Realization

•    Support onboarding and deployment strategies to accelerate time-to-value

•    Develop usage and expansion plans in partnership with customers and internal teams

•    Monitor usage trends, identify adoption gaps, and proactively address risk

•    Influence post-sale expansion by championing new use cases and capabilities

•    Serve as a customer advocate internally to shape roadmap, pricing, and support

Strategic Feedback & GTM Iteration

•    Capture and share customer insights to improve CONNECT product-market fit and GTM messaging

•    Inform commercial model, onboarding approaches, and playbooks for future scale

•    Collaborate closely with product, marketing, customer success, partnerships, sales enablement, and regional sales teams

Essential requirements

•    Experienced in direct enterprise B2B SaaS or Cloud software sales roles

•    Proven track record owning and delivering against ARR targets and closing complex deals

•    Strong sales acumen, Commercial and analytical skills to identify market trends and opportunities creating dynamic business and account plans to exploit such opportunities, including territory planning, value-based selling, stakeholder mapping, and negotiation

•    Well versed and experienced with IT Software and Solutions and business drivers and sector specific trends within the industries served by AVEVA (O&G, Transmission & Distribution, Water and Wastewater, Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Life Sciences/Pharma, Mining, Metals, Materials/Marine)

•    Comfortable engaging both technical users and business decision-makers

•    Experience driving product adoption and account growth post sale, bringing a strong understanding of the business benefits of AVEVA solutions and services, able to describe the product benefits to demonstrate ROI

•    You will be a self-starter who can operate autonomously and influence cross-functional teams

•    Strong communication skills in all forms – written, oral, email, presentation etc. Fluency in English and the local language to C1/C2 level is required

Desired skills

•    Experience in industrial software, engineering software, or automation is highly preferred. 

•    Experience working with (or selling into) asset-intensive/heavy process industries like energy, chemicals, or manufacturing is preferred

•    Familiarity with Salesforce and the MEDDPICC sales framework (and/or Challenger, or ‘Command of the Message’). 

Commercial at AVEVA 

Our Commercial team, comprised of over 2,000 dedicated colleagues, is the backbone of our customer relationships and business growth. From industry experts and solution architects to sales, support, success managers, and business operations, everyone shares a common goal: to deeply understand our customers' needs and deliver tailored solutions. 

If you're passionate about driving growth, tackling complex business challenges, and fostering strong customer relationships, you'll find success and fulfilment in our Commercial team. 

Find out more: https://www.aveva.com/en/about/careers/ 

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