Sales Executive - France

This role is all about growth. You'll be responsible for opening new doors across France, building relationships from scratch, and helping manufacturers understand how advanced AI technology can improve performance across batch, process, and discrete manufacturing environments. It's a genuine hunter role with plenty of autonomy and the chance to make a visible contribution to a growing business.

You'll join an established team but be trusted to run your territory with a high degree of independence. For someone who enjoys creating opportunities, winning new business, and building a career in one of the most exciting areas of enterprise software, this is a chance to get in early and make a name for yourself.

Who’s it for and what’s in it for you?
AI that helps people spend less time chasing info and more time solving problems? Sounds great, right? Well that's exactly what our client is creating. By connecting data, systems, and workflows, they help organisations to automate repetitive work, uncover actionable insights, and get things done faster. They're backed by one of the world's largest enterprise software companies too, so are making waves in the industry. 

It's a great place for someone who wants to work with the latest tech, whilst having a serious impact on how work gets done in businesses each and every day. And with a culture that's designed around growth, you'll get ownership, autonomy, and support on your ideas from day one. 

What will your day to day look like?
The key focus of this role is to drive new-logo sales across France, introducing agentic AI technology into complex industrial enterprise environments.

•    Hunt into strategic industrial accounts, generating your own demand as well as working from planned campaigns and install base motions
•    Lead consultative sales conversations around agentic AI, autonomous workflows, orchestration, and decision intelligence
•    Position the platform as a transformational layer that helps enterprises move beyond dashboards and copilots into autonomous action
•    Engage senior technical and business stakeholders, including CIOs, CTOs, COOs, and Heads of Digital
•    Identify, qualify, and close high-value enterprise opportunities, including 6-7 digit ACV deals
•    Work closely with regional sales teams, product specialists, and solution engineering in a matrixed go-to-market model
•    Build strong knowledge of industrial customer challenges across manufacturing, energy, aerospace, engineering, construction, and related markets

This is a high-visibility opportunity to sell one of the most forward-looking areas of enterprise AI, helping industrial organisations adopt autonomous technology that can transform how critical operations are managed.

This role will suit you if you…
•    Have proven success selling complex enterprise software in a new-business sales role
•    Have experience selling AI, automation, intelligent workflow, or emerging enterprise technology
•    Understand how AI can integrate with enterprise systems and operational processes
•    Can speak fluent French and professional English
•    Are technically credible and confident translating complex AI concepts into commercial outcomes
•    Can engage senior stakeholders across technical, operational, and business functions
•    Are curious, adaptable, and genuinely interested in the future of agentic AI and enterprise automation
•    Have experience selling into industrial markets such as manufacturing, energy, aerospace, engineering, or construction, although this would be a bonus

Think this could be your next role?
Then we’d love to hear from you! If you’re interested in applying or would like to see the full job description for this role, please get in touch with Richard Farmer on richard.farmer@fmctalent.com

The fine print
Reference number: 22278
Temporary or Permanent: Permanent
FMC contact for this role: Richard Farmer