Tencent Cloud Senior Strategic Sales Manager

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Business Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Tencent Cloud seeks a Senior Strategic Sales Manager in Paris to manage strategic enterprise accounts in Europe, focusing on France. Key sectors include fashion/retail, automotive, pharmaceuticals, telcos, and video gaming. Responsibilities involve creating sales plans, building relationships with key stakeholders, exceeding sales targets, articulating Tencent's technology strengths (SuperApp, AI, low-latency media services), generating leads, and collaborating with internal teams (Legal/FIN/Tax, Solutions Engineering). The role requires experience in consultative selling, managing complex accounts, analyzing market trends, and developing strategic plans to increase high-profile cloud platform contracts. The successful candidate will manage the sales lifecycle, prepare reports, and forecast revenue.
Must have:
  • 5+ years B2B sales experience in technology/telecom/media
  • Hunter mentality; results-oriented
  • Excellent presentation & communication skills
  • Consultative selling at executive levels
  • Revenue growth & complex account management
  • Fluency in English and French
Good to have:
  • Spoken/Written Mandarin Chinese
  • Cloud industry experience
  • Enterprise sales experience in target industries

Job Details

Business Unit

Cloud & Smart Industries Group (CSIG) is responsible for promoting the company's cloud and industry Internet strategy. CSIG explores the interactions between users and industries to create innovative solutions for smart industries via technological advancements such as cloud, AI, and network security. While driving the digitalization of retail, medical, education, transportation and other industries, CSIG helps companies serve users in smarter ways, building a new ecosystem of intelligent industries that connect users and businesses.

What the Role Entails

Position Overview

Tencent Cloud is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Strategic Sales Manager who would be based in Paris, France. The chosen candidate will be tasked with creating and handling Tencent Cloud's strategic enterprise accounts in Europe, especially in France. Key sectors include fashion/retail, automotives, pharmaceuticals, telcos, video gaming, etc. Many such target companies are Fortune 500/1000 industry leaders.

Through a strategic approach, this individual will establish sales priorities and action plans, cultivate valuable relationships with key stakeholders of target companies and deliver/surpass cloud sales targets. With support of the broader team, the individual is to articulate Tencent's strength in delivering digital use experience, innovative technology such as SuperApp, artificial intelligence, low-latency media services, to key stakeholders of target companies.

  • Utilize networking and prospecting skills to generate leads and identify strategic solution-based sales opportunities

  • Develop and manage high-value relationships with key stakeholders

  • Provide leadership and guidance to other team members on large digital native accounts and participate in providing input on sales and marketing collateral

  • Partner with the Legal/FIN/Tax teams on contract negotiations

  • Achieve/exceed sales goals, sustain revenue growth and provide recommendations to enhance account growth and revenue potential

  • Preparation and execution of strategic account plans, status reports, sales and revenue forecasting and quota attainment

  • Be an expert on Tencent’s cloud's digital native offerings, working to understand customers' needs and providing service solutions

  • Develop strategic plans based on industry trending and customer analysis

  • Accountable and instrumental in increasing high-profile cloud platform contracts

  • Work closely with the Solutions Engineer team in delivering and ensuring customers are gaining high value from their investments

  • Manage sales life-cycle for all accounts

Who We Look For

  • 5+ years B2B sales experience in the technology/telecommunication/media sector

  • Exhibits a “hunter” mentality: hightly-motivated self-starter and result-oriented

  • Outstanding presentation and communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively and tactfully with customer and staff at all levels

  • Ability to solve customer-related problems in a positive manner

  • Strong in consultative and insight-based selling at executive levels

  • Experience articulating complex solutions to decision-makers and executives

  • Proven ability to grow revenue and manage complex accounts

  • Good team player who can collaborate well within virtual / remote teams

  • Experience analyzing data, trends and the market to develop key selling points

  • Fluency in English and French

  • Spoken/Written Mandarin Chinese is a plus, but not a must

  • Experience with cloud industry is a major plus

  • Experience in enterprise sales towards relevant industries (fashion / retail / telco / advanced manufacturing, etc.) is a plus

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent

As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.

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About The Company

Tencent is a world-leading internet and technology company that develops innovative products and services to improve the quality of life of people around the world.


Founded in 1998 with its headquarters in Shenzhen, China, Tencent's guiding principle is to use technology for good. Our communication and social services connect more than one billion people around the world, helping them to keep in touch with friends and family, access transportation, pay for daily necessities, and even be entertained.


Tencent also publishes some of the world's most popular video games and other high-quality digital content, enriching interactive entertainment experiences for people around the globe.


Tencent also offers a range of services such as cloud computing, advertising, FinTech, and other enterprise services to support our clients' digital transformation and business growth.


Tencent has been listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong since 2004.

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