EMEA Financial Services Leader

EMEA Financial Services Leader - Databricks

SLSQ424R438

While candidates in the listed locations are encouraged for this role, we are open to remote candidates in other locations.

As Go-to-Market Leader for EMEA Financial Services, you will drive the go-to-market strategy to grow the Banking/Payments, Capital Markets and Insurances businesses from a revenue and new logo perspective. You will be the domain expert and business executive for financial services within Databricks. You will set the vision, build executive relationships with customers and partners, and work with a cross-functional team across Databricks. You have a passion for how Data+AI will transform the banking industry, be familiar with unique challenges that European Financial Service Institutions (FSIs) face, and be effective at articulating your vision to audiences big and small.

This job will require travel for conferences, customer and team meetings. You will report to the VP of Financial Services, Cyber Security and Sustainability GTM.

The impact you will have:

Own the strategy for Financial Services GTM - create growth execution plan, drive C-level relationships with customers, and drive new customers logos and revenue growth

Work with the sales and pre-sales teams to create account-level, segment-level and region-level go-to-market plans across the globe for the vertical

Work with partners to develop strategic C-level relationships with ISV and CSI partners

Identify operational gaps in each sub-segment of the GTM motion, be data-driven about quantifying business opportunities and execute improvement plans

Develop comprehensive sales plays with Sales Programs teams to build scalable and geographically tailored motions to drive growth in EMEA, America and APJ

Act as a thought leader in the industry by authoring white-papers, speaking at events, and engaging with C-suite

Become trusted advisor to multiple stakeholders within Databricks from product, sales, pre-sales, marketing, to partner teams.

Create unique content for Sales Enablement teams to boost productivity of verticalised sales and pre-sales teams

Partner with marketing to develop Financial Services content, collateral, blogs and demand generation plan

Keynote marquee industry events and plan and execute Databricks events in Financial Services

Ensure Databricks has security messaging and positioning for Financial Services

What we look for:

Experience working as an executive in the Financial Services Vertical

Intimate knowledge of key global regulations in Banking/Payments, Capital Markets and Insurance industries with a particular focus on European regulations

Experience driving change at large FSI institutions both from technical and business perspective with a strong understanding of how large FSIs make decisions

Strong customer-facing presence (CXO, IT and Business Leaders), ability to cultivate executive relationships and open doors for the field

Experience working in with cross-functional resources to built-out Vertical Solutions on an existing technology platform that has generated revenue and value for the customer

Experience working with sales and technical pre-sales, building go-to-market sales kits to drive market penetration

Strong knowledge of the technology landscape in banking/payments

Hands-on experience with program managing vertical solutions (which includes: collecting, tracking and prioritising vertical business requirements, working with technical resources to ensure timelines are met, collaborating with marketing to develop marketing assets and event planning, working with partner teams to track partner relationship progress ensuring key milestones are met)

Demonstrated ability to enable and coach sales teams on how to position technology to customers in Financial Services

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Private dental insurance

Health Cash Plan

Life, income protection & critical illness insurance

Pension PlanEquity awards

Enhanced Parental Leaves

Fitness reimbursement

Annual career development fund

Home office & work headphones reimbursement

Business travel accident insurance

Mental wellness resources

Employee referral bonus

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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