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Commercial Account Executive - UK & I (Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Minimum 5 years of experience as an Account Executive within the commercial segment.
  • Proven track record of driving new customer acquisition.
  • Strong 'hunter' mindset with the ability to open new accounts and develop new verticals.
  • Solid understanding of the SaaS landscape; experience in backup, recovery, or cybersecurity is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Build and nurture strong relationships with commercial customers (1,000–5,000 employees) and key decision-makers.
  • Drive new business development by creating and expanding a high-quality pipeline in collaboration with SDRs and Field Marketing.
  • Own the full sales cycle—from initial engagement and discovery to demos, negotiation, and close.
  • Manage pipeline effectively and deliver accurate forecasts.

About the company

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Keepit

Cybersecurity

Streamline your #SaaS backup & recovery with Keepit. 20+ years of providing dedicated data protection, ensuring companies protect and manage SaaS data at scale. Keepit protects your cloud data and leaves you free to leverage new cloud technologies without fear of data loss. Simple to set up and deploy, with the best restore options available so you can find and recover historic data in no time. The Keepit platform is ready for any Cloud Workload and offers full retention on your terms – from one year to eternity. Born with indexing and search to ensure you always have the complete view of your data.

Company details

Company typeSME
IndustryCybersecurity
Company size201 - 500

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Job description

As a Commercial Account Executive at Keepit, you will play a key role in our ambitious expansion across Northern UK (Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds). Our mission is to become the preferred provider of cloud data security, backup, and recovery solutions for SMB, Commercial, and Enterprise customers.

To support your success, you will partner closely with a dedicated team of Sales Development Representatives (SDRs) who generate qualified opportunities. You will take ownership of these opportunities while proactively building additional pipeline through your assigned accounts and collaboration with channel partners. Success in this role requires the ability to build trusted relationships with key stakeholders, deeply understand customer needs, and drive the full sales process in close collaboration with partners and Presales.

Key Responsibilities:

· Build and nurture strong relationships with commercial customers (1,000–5,000 employees) and key decision-makers.

· Drive new business development by creating and expanding a high-quality pipeline in collaboration with SDRs and Field Marketing.

· Own the full sales cycle—from initial engagement and discovery to demos, negotiation, and close.

· Manage pipeline effectively and deliver accurate forecasts.
Collaborate closely with channel partners in a 100% partner-led go-to-market model.

· Consistently achieve and exceed quarterly revenue targets.

You will join our growing UK & I team and report to the RVP Sales, UK&I. The role is based in region (Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds), with occasional travel to our London office.

About You

· Minimum 5 years of experience as an Account Executive within the commercial segment.

· Proven track record of driving new customer acquisition.

· Strong “hunter” mindset with the ability to open new accounts and develop new verticals.

· Hands-on, tactical, and commercially sharp dealmaker.

· Skilled at building long-term relationships with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.

· Solid understanding of the SaaS landscape; experience in backup, recovery, or cybersecurity is a plus.

· Strong knowledge of the UK market.

· Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey ideas clearly and confidently.

· Fluent in English.

Keepit is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we welcome and encourage diversity in our workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, and to perform essential job functions. We kindly ask you not to provide us with any sensitive categories of personal data when applying for a job with us. When applying for the vacancy, Keepit will process your personal data, and therefore we recommend that you also read our privacy policy, which describes our processing of personal data and your rights as a data subject.

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