Account Executive - B2B CSE

About the Position

Account Executive - B2B CSE

Join Cafeyn: Where Innovation Meets Inspiration

At Cafeyn, we're redefining the way people discover, access, and enjoy premium digital content. Since 2006, we've evolved into one of Europe's leading digital reading platforms, serving more than 2 million users worldwide with unlimited, personalized access to thousands of newspapers and magazines.

Our ambition goes beyond news. Through Cafeyn, Milibris, Kidjo and Mangas.io, we create innovative digital content experiences that inform, entertain and inspire millions of users every day.

Together, the Group now operates across 15 markets, serves 2.5 million users, and provides access to more than 5,200 publications from 1,100 partner publishers.

If you're passionate about building strategic partnerships, driving commercial growth and shaping the future of digital media, we'd love to meet you.

We are looking for an Account Executive to join our team and work with our CSE partners.

Responsibilities

• Build and own a strong pipeline and full sales cycle: Develop and convert a qualified pipeline through SDR-generated leads and proactive outbound prospecting, managing opportunities end-to-end from qualification through negotiation and closing.
• Achieve and exceed New Business targets: Deliver against revenue and new customer acquisition targets within the CSE segment.
• Drive outbound opportunities: Proactively identify and generate new business opportunities beyond SDR-sourced leads.
• Own your pipeline and forecast: Manage priorities, opportunities and sales forecasts with rigor and a high level of autonomy.
• Ensure strong sales execution: Maintain rigorous follow-up on opportunities, next steps, deal progression and forecasting.
• Maintain accurate CRM data: Keep Salesforce fully up to date and ensure structured and reliable tracking of all opportunities.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with SDR, Sales, Product, Marketing and other internal teams to maximize sales performance and ensure strong execution.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and team performance: Share market feedback and best practices to continuously improve the sales approach, processes, and actively contribute to improving team processes and overall performance.
• Develop strong market knowledge: Build a deep understanding of the CSE market, customer needs, key players and competitive landscape.

Requirements

• Hunting & Pipeline Generation: Proven ability to proactively generate new business opportunities through outbound prospecting, in addition to working with SDR-generated leads.
• Sales Methodology & Qualification: Strong understanding of sales methodologies and ability to qualify opportunities effectively, identify decision-makers and assess deal potential.
• Closing & Negotiation: Demonstrated ability to lead negotiations, handle objections and successfully close complex B2B deals.
• Ownership & Autonomy: Highly autonomous, with a strong sense of ownership over your territory, pipeline, opportunities and results.
• Pipeline & Forecast Management: Strong ability to manage a sales pipeline, prioritize opportunities and provide accurate, data-driven forecasts. Experience using Salesforce or a similar CRM is a plus.
• Communication & Influence: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships with multiple stakeholders and influence decision-makers.
• Results Orientation & Resilience: Strongly target-driven, persistent and resilient, with the ability to navigate rejection and maintain momentum in a high-performance sales environment.
• Collaboration & Team Contribution: A strong team player who actively shares best practices, market insights and feedback, and contributes to the continuous improvement of sales processes and team performance.

We Offer

• Classic package 🎓
  • Swile card for meal vouchers
  • Sidecare health insurance
  • Mobility package to reimburse transport subscription
• Sports 🏃
  • Partnership with Wellpass for fitness classes and wellness activities
• Mental Health 🧠
  • Access to mental health platform teale for psychologist appointments and mental health monitoring
• Hybrid policy 🏠
  • Work remotely two days per week
• Cafeyn’s access 🗞️
  • VIP code for unlimited access to all content on our platform
• Team life 🪅
  • Four office meet-ups per year

About the Company

We are:

• Entrepreneurs – bold and action-driven
• Digital Crafters – passionate about product and user experience
• Explorers – curious, always eager to learn and discover
• Mavericks – free thinkers, creative, unafraid to go against the grain

These four dimensions coexist and balance each other in everything we do.

About Cafeyn

• Founded in 2006
• Co-workers 120
• Index de l’égalité professionnelle : 93/100

Location: Paris

Remote status: Hybrid

Employment type: Full-time

You don’t have to match all the requirements, if you feel this offer could be a great opportunity for you, reach out anyways! We hire based on talent and we promote inclusivity inside Cafeyn and strongly believe that our culture is strongest when it is the most diverse.