Client Executive - Lyon

Job Summary

Join us as a Commercial Client Executive, where you'll work alongside channel partners and commercial account managers to drive sales within South East France region (AURA & PACA).

Your main focus will be developing, qualifying, managing, and facilitating a robust pipeline of sales opportunities. As a quota-driven professional, you'll collaborate closely with our channel partners, 'co-selling' and representing NetApp's cutting-edge products and solutions to both existing and prospective customers. Additionally, you'll coordinate with our dynamic marketing team to execute targeted campaigns, amplifying your impact in the market.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop, manage, and expand a robust sales pipeline with key channel partners to drive revenue growth
• Provide sales support to enhance partner communication, collaboration, and accountability focusing on generating and closing opportunities
• Work with Cloud sales specialists to establish cloud software targes and drive growth
• Lead the strategic Go-to-Market plan for the territory ensuring active engagement and contribution for both internal and external resources
• Support partner sales requests and serve as a liaison between partners and internal sales support teams to identify strategies to acquire new accounts with new products and services.
• Engage customers by inviting them to exclusive partner or hyperscaler events.
• Report sales activities and forecasts to upper management.
• Deliver compelling NetApp strategy, vision, and messaging to customers, prospects and partner sales and technical teams.

Job Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of field technology sales with a focus on new logo acquisition and business development.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, presentation skills, customer service and negotiation skills in French and English.

Ability to work in teamwork.

Consistent track record of exceeding quota and driving net new business.

Self-starter who is comfortable working independently and in a team environment.

Highly organized and disciplined with the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues within departments across functions.

Located within assigned territory and able to travel regularly to visit local customers and partners.

Desired location - Lyon

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You'll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.

Submitting an Application

To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.

AI Disclosure

For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.