Adaptavist Business Development Strategic Account Director (DACH) (f/m/d) Cologne , Germany

Strategic Account Director (DACH) (f/m/d)

• Full-time


• Job Field: Business Development


• Candidate Location: Germany


• Hire type: Full time

Working at The Adaptavist Group

The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.

We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, monday.com and Aha!

We make change happen. From anywhere.

What you’ll be doing

The Strategic Account Director owns a portfolio of 3 – 5 of Adaptavist’s most strategically important enterprise customers. These are typically global organisations with the potential to generate in excess of £1m in annual gross margin.

The Strategic Account Director is accountable for building multi-year growth strategies, deepening executive relationships, and positioning Adaptavist as a long-term transformation partner, orchestrating virtual teams across Sales, Presales, Delivery, Customer Success and strategic partners to drive wallet share expansion and sustainable account growth.

What we’re looking for

Strategic account leadership

Own and execute multi-year account growth plans across a portfolio of complex enterprise accounts

Build executive-level relationships across customer organisations, establishing Adaptavist as a trusted transformation partner

Lead and coordinate virtual strategic account manager and supporting teams across Sales, Presales, Delivery and Customer Success

Identify and pursue whitespace opportunities across business units and geographies

Pipeline generation and value-based selling

Develop customer-centric points of view that connect Adaptavist capabilities to measurable business outcomes

Lead structured discovery to uncover business problems, organisational drivers and stakeholder motivations

Build compelling business cases and value realisation plans anchored in customer outcomes, articulating value across:

Toolchain Modernisation

AI Adoption

Compliance and Change Assurance

Apply MEDDPICC discipline to qualify, inspect and progress opportunities to a consistent standard

Generate pipeline through executive engagement, account-based selling and partner collaboration

Stakeholder & relationship management

Establish and champion direct access to Economic Buyers and C-suite sponsors

Build multi-threaded relationships spanning technology and business leadership simultaneously

Identify, develop and mobilise internal champions capable of influencing customer decisions

Navigate complex organisational structures, including informal influencer networks

Partner ecosystem leadership

Develop joint account strategies with strategic partners that generate an identifiable pipeline

Build working relationships across partner sales and technical teams

Execute partner-involved deals with discipline around co-sell structures and margin management

Position Adaptavist as the preferred services and transformation partner within shared accounts

Operating rhythm and commercial excellence

Maintain exceptional CRM hygiene and forecast accuracy, with clear articulation of deal risk to sales leadership

Lead quarterly account reviews and strategic planning sessions

Drive commercial governance, deal quality and margin discipline through complex negotiations

Contribute to QBRs, deal inspections and sales excellence initiatives

Proven track record managing and growing complex enterprise or global accounts in a services setting, with high six- to seven-figure AOVs and £1m+ gross margin responsibility, delivering sustained account growth.

Strong experience building relationships, with strong communication capability evidenced by engaging credibly at the C-suite level

Experience leading multi-stakeholder transformation opportunities, with the ability to identify, develop and mobilise internal champions

Experience developing and executing account strategies and growth plans that have generated identifiable pipeline or revenue

High-quality discovery skills with the ability to uncover business problems, organisational drivers and personal motivations across multiple stakeholder layers

Experience developing compelling business cases anchored in measurable customer outcomes

Proven application of MEDDPICC (or directly comparable methodology) at a standard sufficient to qualify and inspect opportunities consistently

Strong commercial negotiation skills across complex, multi-variable deals where price, scope, terms and relationship are all active dimensions

Commercial experience executing partner-involved deals, including familiarity with co-sell structures and margin management in partner-led engagements

Experience working within or alongside the Atlassian ecosystem, or a closely comparable enterprise technology partner ecosystem (GitLab, Harness, AWS, Datadog, IBM)

Established executive relationships with key strategic partners that could be activated in support of Adaptavist’s account portfolio

What to expect

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