Job Description

Innovation Starts With You

Propel your career at Belden, where innovation creates possibilities—for our people, our customers, and the communities we serve. We connect people, information, and ideas to solve the world’s most complex connectivity challenges, turning curiosity into meaningful impact. Here, you’ll take on work that challenges you, supports your growth, and empowers you to shape what’s next. You’ll collaborate with global teams, gain diverse perspectives, and contribute to solutions that extend beyond our business—creating value in the world around us.

Together, we are shaping the future of digitization and paving the way for the next generation of innovation.

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SOLUTION ACCOUNT MANAGER FRANCE

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• Place: France
• Type: Full-time
• Level: Senior

You will make an impact in the following way: 

• Own the Schneider Electric business in France within defined scope, with full accountability for commercial performance and execution.
• Drive revenue growth and margin performance by identifying, developing, and closing opportunities across the full portfolio (products, solutions, and services).
• Build, maintain, and lead a robust, qualified pipeline (generation, qualification, forecasting, and conversion), ensuring coverage aligned with targets.
• Contribute to and deploy the global account strategy locally in France, translating priorities into actionable account plans and measurable outcomes.
• Map stakeholders and decision-making processes across Schneider Electric France; identify influencers, economic buyers, and key decision criteria to expand footprint.
• Manage day-to-day customer engagement and relationships across multiple organizational levels; position the company as a trusted and value-driven partner.
• Ensure a consistent approach to value selling by aligning customer needs with company capabilities and articulating the overall value proposition clearly.
• Collaborate closely with the Global Account Director to ensure local execution supports global strategy, priorities, and executive engagement plans.
• Coordinate and align internal teams (sales, product management, engineering, services, operations) to shape offers, respond to customer requirements, and support deal execution.
• Ensure execution excellence: secure reliable and timely delivery, manage internal follow-up, and remove blockers to improve customer experience.
• Resolve operational and commercial issues proactively, ensuring customer satisfaction, retention, and long-term partnership development.
• Contribute to opportunity shaping and offer/value proposition development in collaboration with Business Development and other stakeholders.

What you will bring: 

• Proven sales/account management experience (5+ years) – Demonstrated success delivering revenue growth and margin performance in B2B sales.
• Experience in complex solution environments – Strong background in industrial/automation/energy (preferred) with multi-stakeholder, value-based selling.
• Pipeline & funnel management excellence – Ability to generate demand, qualify opportunities, forecast accurately, and drive conversion to orders.
• Strategic account planning capability – Skilled at deploying account strategy locally, expanding share of wallet, and increasing footprint within key accounts.
• Strong customer engagement and relationship building – Comfortable interacting across multiple levels, including senior stakeholders, and building long-term trust.
• Portfolio mindset (products + solutions + services) – Able to connect customer needs to a broad offering and create consistent, relevant proposals.
• Cross-functional leadership in a matrix organization – Effective at coordinating internal stakeholders to deliver outcomes without direct authority.
• Ownership, accountability, and execution discipline – Hands-on, results-oriented, and able to balance short-term delivery with long-term development.
• Customer-centric, value-driven approach – Focused on solving customer problems and demonstrating measurable value.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills – Able to influence internally and externally, navigate complexity, and close business effectively.

Let’s Create Possibilities Together.

Join a global community shaping the future of intelligent connectivity. At Belden, you’ll help push the boundaries of technology and write the next chapter of innovation, creating possibilities for your career, your future, and the world around you.

These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work involved for this job. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of this job.