Lead Account Executive
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Job Description
Your Impact
As Lead Account Executive at Tacto youll be the cornerstone of our sales organizations successa true player-coach who drives revenue while building our next generation of sales this pivotal role youll balance closing your own deals with developing a high-performing team of Account Executives who can tackle our enormous market opportunity. Youll work directly with founders and sales leadership to shape our go-to-market strategy in a greenfield market with over 15000 potential customers in DACH alone. By delivering tangible value to procurement teams across industrial Mittelstand companies you and your team will help customers optimize costs reduce supply chain risks and meet regulatory requirementsmaking a measurable impact on their bottom line while accelerating our growth trajectory.
Your Tasks
Revenue Generation: Close deals within your personal quota while leading your team to exceed targets applying a value-driven approach that positions Tacto as an essential part of customers infrastructure.
Team Development: Build and coach a high-performing sales team through structured training hands-on deal support and performance management. Youll model best practices while developing each team members capabilities.
Deal Strategy & Execution: Actively join critical customer conversations challenge assumptions eliminate risks and design winning game plans alongside your AEs. Youll roll up your sleeves to support negotiations and business case development.
Sales Excellence: Implement and coach on proven sales methodologies (MEDDIC) while creating a culture of continuous improvement through regular training in discovery negotiation and process management.
Performance Optimization: Drive team performance through structured metrics tracking pipeline reviews and action planning. Youll identify improvement opportunities and implement solutions that increase win rates and deal velocity.
Become AI Native:Proactively identify opportunities to leverage AI to accelerate the work of your team experiment with new approaches and share successful workflows contributing to Tactos culture of high-velocity execution and innovation.
Your Profile
You have 3 years of experience as an Account Executive in a relevant B2B SaaS company with complex non-transactional sales
Youve spent at least 1 year in a sales leadership role preferably in a high-growth SaaS environment
You have a proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding sales targets
You are familiar with structured sales methodologies and can coach others on their application
You combine strategic thinking with tactical executioncapable of developing go-to-market strategies while also diving into individual deals
Youre highly motivated resilient and results-oriented with a genuine drive for purpose
Youre fluent in both German and English
Who We Are
Tacto is an AI-driven procurement platform. Our mission is to strengthen Europes industrial Mittelstand by future proofing their supply chains. We streamline how companies buy negotiate and manage procurement we help them optimize their by far largest cost driver to stay competitive in the long-run. Trusted by hundreds of companies Tacto transforms procurement into a strategic advantage.
Based in Munich our team of builders entrepreneurs and industry experts is creating technology that truly matters. Were backed by some of the best investors in the world including Sequoia Capital Index Ventures Cherry Ventures Visionaries Club UVC Partners as well as the founders of Personio GetYourGuide Helsing & Forto.
Why It Matters
The industrial Mittelstand 90000 small and medium-sized enterprises forms Europes economic backbone driving 25% of Germanys GDP and providing over 30% of jobs. These hidden champions manufacture the physical world around us from the machines that build our cities to the medical devices that save lives.
Today a world of growing uncertainty and disruption is threatening their position. To stay competitive the Mittelstand must unlock new efficiencies and procurement is their largest strategic lever to do so.
At Tacto we deliver tangible cost savings and strategic resilience at a time when its needed most. Our work extends beyond technology its about protecting the foundation of Europes economy for generations to come.
What We Offer
An environment where we enable you to have an impact and where we focus on outcomes not time-tracking
A vibrant in-office culture in a beautiful office (at least 3 days/week)
26 4 vacation days per year (4 fixed company rest days)
Wellpass membership and access to Jobrad for your health
Additional voluntary pension contribution and KITA subsidy for you and your familys future
Competitive salary & meaningful equity stake so you are invested in our success
Tacto is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race religion sexual orientation age marital status disability or gender identity. Please do not submit personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin political opinions religious or philosophical beliefs trade union membership data concerning your health or data concerning your sexual orientation.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
