Senior Account Executive, Commercial (North-West Region)

Milan, Lombardy

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Function Sales Team Field Sales Role Type Permanent Work Location Remote Date Posted 03/12/2026

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Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.

The Senior Account Executive will be responsible for developing/closing business indirectly with a number of customers in the assigned market (North-West Region) and account set of company of different size and industry, selling through and with Veeam business partner community. The primary focus is aimed at opening sales opportunities and is achieved by collaborating with partners to identify, develop, accelerate, up-sell, cross-sell and close sales transactions.

Job Functions:

Develop and close business with defined accounts
Leverage partners to close sales with their end customers 
Cold calls to develop sales activities with a large number of new mid-market and high-segment end users 
Up-sell and cross-sell to the existing customer base 
Forecasts and account/opportunity details in Salesforce
Propose, coordinate and participate to marketing activities in the defined territory

Job Requirements:

Direct, new business sales experience
Experience with vendors associated with Virtualization, Cloud & SaaS technology is a plus 
Have experience of selling through channel and direct 
Track record of accomplishment selling to the IT infrastructure specialists
Proven ability to develop new sales 
Be a self-starter with the ability to learn quickly
Be a high-energy salesperson
Be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where roles and responsibilities change quickly
Be comfortable travelling for at least 50% of the time
Current full driving license
Business proficient language skills in Italian & English

We offer:

26 paid vacation days, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
Statutory pension and illness coverage via INPS contributions
Private medical insurance for employees and dependents
Life and disability insurance with enhanced coverage
Accidental death and disability coverage with increased benefit for Dirigenti roles
Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning

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