Regional Sales Director

Amsterdam - Sales

Regional Sales Director - Southern Europe

Located in Amsterdam, our EMEA HQ offices are a stone's throw away from the beautiful NEMO Science Museum, and the Amsterdam Central train station. Famous for its breathtaking architecture, canals, and over 881,000 bikes, Amsterdam is a city that's easy to fall in love with.

Backbase is the industry leader of omni-channel banking platforms and one of the fastest-growing fintech companies in the world. We empower financial institutions to accelerate their digital-first transformation, and become loved by their customers!

We're on a mission to serve 10% of all smartphone users worldwide with a Backbase-powered financial app. Yes, that means 400 million people (ambitious!)). But we see it as exploring millions of initiatives and flexing our brain power. With us so far? What will you bring to make us stronger?

What you'll do

You understand customer business drivers and know how to establish buy-in at all levels (sales management, delivery leads, and senior/executive management). You will identify and qualify new regional sales opportunities and effectively run a sales cycle. Collaborating closely with our demand gen specialist and pre-sales experts you will prepare RFPs, deep dives, pitches, and POCs and work towards closing multi-million dollar deals.

Next to that, you will develop active partner relationships in the assigned region that result in the net new software business. Facilitate partner and Backbase sales team alignment, target account nomination, and opportunity planning to drive joint license (Backbase) and service (partner) wins.

Who you are

You are a seasoned Regional Sales Director, that has a consistent track record of helping your financial services customers achieve their strategic initiatives, engaging at the CxO level. At Backbase you will have the opportunity to steer some of the region's most innovative organisations in their digital transformation journey as they strive to become a true Digital First Bank, in Retail, SME, Corporate or Wealth management.