
Services Account Executive
€85,100 - €161,600 per year
Key Skills
Job Description
- You will lead the shaping and sale of strategic projects and transformation programs for the implementation and scaling of our software services, particularly in PLM and digital engineering solutions.
- You will work closely with customers to understand their priorities and shape service initiatives related to our software solutions.
- You will be responsible for complex customer engagements and ensure successful alignment between customer requirements, service offerings, and software strategy.
- You will develop long-term strategic customer relationships and position our services as an integral part of the customers’ software strategy.
- You will develop structured strategies for selling professional services.
- You will identify and develop new service opportunities within strategic enterprise accounts.
- You will translate complex customer requirements into clearly structured, commercially viable, and scalable service offerings.
- You will manage the entire engagement lifecycle, from opportunity development and proposal preparation through negotiation, contracting, and a structured handover to delivery.
- You will ensure that service offerings support service revenue, customer value, profitability, and successful delivery.
- You will actively contribute your experience and best practices to the ongoing development of service sales and engagement management.
- You will develop structured proposal strategies for service offerings in collaboration with Sales and PreSales.
- You will ensure that proposals are commercially viable, scalable, and transparently costed.
- You will support the structuring of large-scale service programs and commercial models.
- You will work closely with Sales, Delivery, and Commercial teams to ensure service revenue, profitability, and delivery feasibility.
- You will engage with customer management and key stakeholders across procurement, IT, and business functions to align expectations, priorities, commercial considerations, and decision-making.
- You will analyze complex program situations and derive clear recommendations for the sale and delivery of services.
- You will address critical situations, emerging risks, and alignment gaps within your customer engagements in a structured and solution-oriented manner.
- You will communicate complex issues effectively to different audiences and provide transparency regarding opportunities, risks, decisions, and next steps.
- You will develop the foundations for successful and scalable service structures for strategic software customers.
- During the selling and proposal phase, you will establish a clear engagement framework covering governance, delivery approach, roles and responsibilities, decision-making, dependencies, and expectations required for successful delivery.
- You will promote the scaling of best practices across multiple engagements and foster a continuous coaching and learning culture within the engagement management organization.
- You will ensure transparency regarding the commercial performance of your engagements and services.
- You will be responsible for forecasting, pipeline quality, opportunity assessment, and new order reporting.
- You have several years of hands-on experience working for a software vendor or within a closely related software ecosystem.
- You have experience in service sales, engagement management, or managing transformation programs at a software vendor or in a software-related consulting environment, such as enterprise software, PLM, engineering software, or digital engineering platforms.
- You have a proven track record of managing complex enterprise customer relationships and selling complex service projects or transformation programs.
- You have experience managing large-scale transformation programs involving software platforms, ideally in PLM or digital engineering solutions.
- You have a strong understanding of PLM and digital engineering processes.
- You possess strong analytical skills in business case development, deal structuring, and proposal costing.
- You are able to structure complex topics clearly and communicate them convincingly.
- You demonstrate a high level of ownership and can independently manage complex opportunities and customer relationships, even in dynamic and challenging situations.
- You are fluent in English, both written and spoken, and have strong negotiation skills.
Why Us
#SaaS
- Netherlands
Core Responsibilities
You will lead the sale of complex transformation programs and strategic service projects while managing long-term customer relationships. You are responsible for the entire engagement lifecycle, from proposal development and negotiation to ensuring successful delivery and commercial profitability.
Requirements
You must have several years of hands-on experience in service sales or engagement management within a software vendor or consulting environment. A strong understanding of PLM and digital engineering processes, combined with excellent analytical and negotiation skills, is required.
Benefits
- Health and wellness benefits
- Annual incentive target
- Global mobility
- Hybrid work environment
About Siemens
Industry: Automation Machinery Manufacturing
Company size: 10,001+ employees
Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare. The company’s purpose is to create technology to transform the everyday, for everyone. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more livable, and transportation more sustainable. A leader in industrial AI, Siemens leverages its deep domain know-how to apply AI – including generative AI – to real-world applications, making AI accessible and impactful for customers across diverse industries. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably. In fiscal 2025, which ended on September 30, 2025, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €78.9 billion and net income of €10.4 billion. As of September 30, 2025, the company employed around 318,000 people worldwide on the basis of continuing operations.