Sales Manager - France Mid Market

Our Southern Europe Sales Team has been building an Enterprise focussed team spanning across mid-tier and all the way up to Global 2000 Enterprise accounts. Cloudflare has accelerated bringing both Enterprise and Fortune 1000 companies onto our platform in recent years, and this team will do that with more focus, faster pace, and higher long term growth expectations.

As the Sales Manager you will lead our France Mid Market Sales Team. We are seeking a highly experienced and talented Mid Market Accounts’ Sales Leader to help us manage and grow the organisation with overall responsibility for driving Cloudflare's revenue, hiring and brand awareness while maintaining the Cloudflare Culture.

The position will require leadership that spans go-to-market strategy development, managing Mid Market Account Executives and key account planning program development and implementation, executive relationship mapping and alignment, cultivating deep levels of trust and product co-creation, balancing short term with long term sales cycles and collaborating extensively cross-functionally to bring to bear product, marketing, support, success, solution engineering and channel onto our highest growth potential accounts.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Building & Hiring: Continue to build, recruit, and coach the France Mid-Market Sales Team in close partnership with recruiting resources and regional leadership.

• Team Leadership: Direct leadership of Mid-Market Account Executives (AEs), while aligning cross-functional support roles (BDRs, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Field Marketing).

• Execution & Revenue Growth: Drive sales growth through operational rigor, consistent pipeline generation, tight sales execution, and targeted regional go-to-market initiatives.

• Process & Methodology: Implement and drive best practices using the company’s sales methodology (e.g., MEDDPICC ) across pipeline management, forecasting, and account expansion.

• Regional Strategy: Execute sales strategies tailored to the French mid-market segment and mid-sized enterprises ( ETI ), ensuring fast sales cycles and quick customer time-to-value.

• Deal Support: Act as an operational point of contact and dynamic "player-coach" to help close strategic mid-market deals and resolve operational roadblocks.

• Governance: Ensure corporate policy and sales standards are consistently followed by the team.

• Cadence & Rigor: Maintain a structured operational cadence: weekly forecast calls, pipeline reviews, 1-on-1 coaching sessions, deal reviews, and team meetings.

Desired Skills, Knowledge and Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years of sales management experience in B2B SaaS/Tech, preceded by a strong track record as an individual contributor selling into mid-sized businesses.

• Language skills: Fluency in French and English is required.

• Mid-Market Focus: Proven success managing medium-length, high-velocity sales cycles (30–90 days ) with a strong quarterly execution cadence.

• Ecosystem Knowledge: Solid understanding of the French IT, Cloud, and Cybersecurity landscape (mid-market / ETI segment).

• Technical Aptitude: Experience or strong familiarity with cloud security , network performance , Zero Trust , SASE , and modern web architecture.

• Sales Rigor: Mastery of sales methodologies, CRM hygiene ( Salesforce ), pipeline generation strategies, and accurate quarterly forecasting.

• Leadership Style: Hands-on leader capable of coaching, developing early-to-mid career AEs, and driving high team energy and performance.