Senior Manager, Customer Success Renewals (French speaker- 2year contract)

Veeam Software
Bucharest, Romania

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-to-senior level sales leaders who can manage renewals teams and drive account planning, with strong French and English language skills and a focus on customer success in a matrix-organization structure.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with prior experience managing inside sales teams and achieving high renewal rates
    — “Demonstrated experience in building, training, managing, developing, and getting results from an inside sales team”
  • Individuals with a proven ability to coach and mentor sales staff while aligning with company values
    — “Skilled motivator with demonstrated ability to coach and develop sales staff to exceed targeted sales objectives”
  • Professionals comfortable with high-energy, fast-paced environments and leading through example
    — “Ability to work in a semi-autonomous and fast-paced environment; must be a high-energy, motivated self-starter”

Things to consider

  • The role demands fluency in both French and English, which may be a barrier for non-native speakers
    — “Advanced level of French and English”
  • Renewal-focused leadership may not align with candidates seeking enterprise sales specialization
    — “Proven track record of driving high volume, transactional sales along with more complex enterprise sales”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in improving renewal practices and delivering consistent sales results
    — “Grows maintenance revenue through improving renewal practices”
  • Demonstrate your ability to lead by example and mentor others using real-world management insights
    — “Leads by example and mentors Managers and/or Associate Managers through sharing best practices from personal experience in a management role”
  • Showcase your technical sales acumen and how it aligns with Veeam's data resilience and AI focus
    — “Serves as a technology-focused sales professional who provides strategic business direction and technical vision across the region”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • overachievement of renewal quotas
  • improving renewal practices
Typical background
5+ years of sales or business development experiencetrack record of top performance

Skills & requirements

Required

Team ManagementSales CoachingPerformance ManagementCRM System Management

Preferred

French Language Proficiency

Stack & domain

Customer SuccessRenewalsSales ManagementTeam LeadershipPerformance ManagementSales ForecastingCRMRenewal PracticesCustomer EscalationsLeadershipTeamworkCommunicationProblem-solvingStrategic ThinkingCollaborationCustomer ServiceTechnologyEnterprise Sales

About the role

Original posting from Veeam Software via Greenhouse

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.

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.

About the Role

The Senior Manager, Renewals and Customer Success is responsible for building, managing and leading a team of Renewals Sales Representatives and/or Associate Managers within a regional business segment by overseeing all activities related to retention of customers on maintenance contracts, upsell opportunities and consistently meeting or exceeding renewal quotas.  In addition, this leader serves as a technology-focused sales professional who provides strategic business direction and technical vision across the region, and driving Veeam revenue through expert account planning, resource planning and allocation.  The Senior Manager of Renewals Sales provides leadership to the team to encourage professional and personal growth of each team member while delivering positive results for the company.  Success in the role requires an organized, team player, with the ability to manage multiple renewals sales campaigns simultaneously with a focus on ensuring that the value of Veeam solutions are understood by customers and partners

What You’ll Do

Leads a team of Renewals Sales Representatives and/or Associate Managers driving overachievement and goals with coaching, performance management, engagement, and career development

Coaches team members to improve their results

Nurtures a positive team environment, in alignment with Veeam's Core Values

Manages team performance against quotas and sales forecasts, executes operating plans, and ensures sales objectives are met

Drives revenue and contributes to the continued growth of Veeam through consistently achieving individual and team quotas

Monitors daily activity of Renewals Sales Representatives, including sales activities and use of Veeam's customer relationship management system (Salesforce.com)

Drives metrics regarding performance of renewal rates, prepaid maintenance, and upsell/cross-sell activities

Collaborates with field sales employees on territory division of labor and sales execution

Grows maintenance revenue through improving renewal practices

Proactively monitors pipeline of expiring contracts to forecast renewal closure

Handles customer and partner escalations

Drives positive change in the department, looks to maximize the entire departments performance through analysis and process improvements

Leads by example and mentors Managers and/or Associate Managers through sharing best practices from personal experience in a management role

Building the Sales Team

Creating a Culture of Trust

Coaching the Sales Team, and/or Associate Managers that report to them

Aligning and Executing Sales Strategy

Delegation & Empowerment

Motivating the Sales Team

Guiding the Sales Transformation

Building Customer Relationships

Creating a Service Reputation

Recruitment and selection

Managing employee relations and difficult interactions

What You’ll Bring

Minimum of 3 years of sales management or supervisory experience preferred

Demonstrated experience in building, training, managing, developing, and getting results from an inside sales team

Skilled motivator with demonstrated ability to coach and develop sales staff to exceed targeted sales objectives and deliver high quality service to customers

Ability to work in a semi-autonomous and fast-paced environment; must be a high-energy, motivated self-starter

Proven track record of driving high volume, transactional sales along with more complex enterprise sales

Ability to work well with all levels of people and teams in a matrix-organization structure, including to work with variety of leaders from different lines of business

Ability to adapt to changes in roles and responsibilities

Demonstrated negotiation skill

Demonstrated work ethic and teamwork

Advanced level of French and English

Bonus Skills

Communication skills; Active Listening Skills; Presentation Skills; Problem-solving skills

Telephone and internet based sales experience required

What You’ll Get 

21 annual vacation days, additional days based on tenure, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares

Private health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents, including outpatient care, hospitalization, pregnancy monitoring, and psychology support

Monthly lifestyle and daily meal benefits: 40 RON/day via Edenred and 600 RON/month through a flexible cafeteria platform

Life insurance (2× annual gross salary), critical illness, and disability coverage, plus vision reimbursement

Free access to Bookster library platform for borrowing your favorite books for free

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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Source: Veeam Software careers (Greenhouse)

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