Strategic Account Director, Industrials (EMEA)

Sayari
United Kingdom
On-site

Who this role is best for

Candidates with deep industry experience in large-cap industrials and strong executive presence will find this senior sales role with heavy client engagement and strategic influence

Best fit for

  • Seasoned sales executives with 15+ years in large-cap industrials and a proven track record of closing multiyear, multimillion-dollar deals
    — “15+ years in large-cap industrials ... record of closing multimillion-dollar, multiyear agreements”
  • Individuals with established relationships in EMEA industrial sectors and a history of influencing enterprise-wide adoption
    — “An existing book of business and relationships with tier-1 industrials that you can bring to Sayari”
  • Candidates who can explain agentic AI to non-technical stakeholders and shape sales strategies based on client feedback
    — “Interest in agentic AI and the ability to explain what it can and cannot yet do ... bring buyer feedback to Product and Engineering”

Things to consider

  • Travel commitment is significant, with up to 25% of time spent across EMEA client sites
    — “Willingness to travel up to 25% across EMEA”
  • This role demands a high level of autonomy in building and managing a sales pipeline
    — “Build your own pipeline through your network, targeted outreach, and practitioner communities”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your history of enterprise-wide AI adoption and your ability to map complex buying centers
    — “Map the buying centers: build relationships across supply chain and procurement, trade compliance and sanctions, legal, risk, investigations, and IT”
  • Emphasize your ability to explain agentic AI to non-technical stakeholders in your industry experience
    — “Interest in agentic AI and the ability to explain what it can and cannot yet do”
  • Showcase your experience in shaping sales strategies and influencing product roadmaps with client feedback
    — “Shape the playbook and roadmap: refine how we position and sell into industrials, and bring buyer feedback to Product and Engineering”
  • Demonstrate your capability to forecast accurately using structured sales methodologies
    — “Forecast accurately: run a structured pipeline (MEDDPICC, Challenger, or Miller Heimann)”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • closing multimillion-dollar, multiyear agreements
  • expanding existing accounts
  • building relationships across supply chain and procurement
Typical background
15+ years in large-cap industrialsC-suite level experienceexisting book of business

Skills & requirements

Required

Strategic Account ManagementSales StrategyClient Relationship ManagementMarket AnalysisSales ForecastingContract NegotiationSales Process Optimization

Preferred

Supply Chain ManagementTrade ComplianceRisk ManagementLegal ComplianceIT Infrastructure

Stack & domain

SalesNetworkingBook Of BusinessPipeline ManagementCustomer SuccessSolutions EngineeringSupply ChainProcurementTrade ComplianceRisk ManagementInvestigative TradecraftAI ReasoningData ProvenanceLeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingAttention To DetailProject ManagementTeamworkExecutive PresenceIndustrials

About the role

Original posting from Sayari via Greenhouse

About Sayari: 

Sayari is the judgment infrastructure for trustworthy AI in economic security and commercial risk. The Sayari Commercial World Model resolves 11.7B+ primary-source records from 250+ jurisdictions forming the ground truth of global commerce. A Judgment Ontology, encoding over a decade of investigative tradecraft, and Superconductor, an agentic orchestration platform, deliver AI that reasons like an expert analyst, shows its work, and traces every finding to its source. Trusted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, HM Revenue & Customs, and Fortune 500 enterprises, Sayari is used by thousands of professionals across 35+ countries to secure supply chains and dismantle illicit networks. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Tel Aviv.

The Role

We are hiring a Strategic Account Director to take Superconductor to tier-1 industrials across EMEA. Some of these accounts already use Sayari. Others are new, and you will win them with your experience, your network, and your existing book of business.

You will be among the first to sell Superconductor into this vertical, with a Forward Deployed Engineer and an established global organization behind you. Targets are multiyear agreements of $2M+, with adoption extended across each account’s adjacent buying centers.

What You Will Do

Win new key logos: use your network and book of business to open tier-1 industrial accounts, and take each from first conversation to signed multiyear agreement. Build your own pipeline through your network, targeted outreach, and practitioner communities.

Grow existing accounts: take Superconductor into tier-1 customers that already use Sayari, moving them from a single use case to enterprise-wide deployment across the Commercial World Model and Superconductor agents.

Map the buying centers: build relationships across supply chain and procurement, trade compliance and sanctions, legal, risk, investigations, and IT. Think Chief Procurement Officers, Chief Supply Chain Officers, Heads of Trade Compliance, Chief Risk Officers, Chief Compliance Officers, and General Counsel.

Prove, then scale: work with Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, and the forward-deployed engineers and analysts dedicated to your accounts to get Superconductor workflows into production with top customers, then use those results as references to unlock further budget.

Shape the playbook and roadmap: refine how we position and sell into industrials, and bring buyer feedback to Product and Engineering.

Forecast accurately: run a structured pipeline (MEDDPICC, Challenger, or Miller Heimann) and give leadership a forecast they can plan against.

What You Bring

15+ years in large-cap industrials (for example aerospace and defence, automotive, chemicals, capital goods, or energy equipment), at or near C-suite level, with a verifiable network in the sector.

An existing book of business and relationships with tier-1 industrials that you can bring to Sayari.

A record of closing multimillion-dollar, multiyear agreements, through both new key logos and expansion of existing accounts, that you can walk through in named detail.

Depth in supply chain, procurement, trade compliance, and risk, including supply chain due diligence rules, forced labour import restrictions, sanctions, and export controls.

Executive presence: you can explain data provenance and AI reasoning to non-technical senior stakeholders and be treated as a peer.

Command of structured sales methodology in multithreaded deals involving procurement and legal review.

Interest in agentic AI and the ability to explain what it can and cannot yet do. You do not need to be technical.

Willingness to travel up to 25% across EMEA.

Nice to Have

German speaker

Why Sayari

Uncapped earnings: commission with accelerators on expansion revenue and no bonus caps.

A product that shows its work: agentic AI that traces every finding to a primary source.

Seniority: you are the senior domain voice on an established sales team, with room to shape how the vertical is worked.

Sayari is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages diverse candidates to apply. We believe diversity and inclusion mean our team members should reflect the diversity of the United States. No employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status, genetics, or political affiliation. We strongly encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply.

Source: Sayari careers (Greenhouse)

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