About the Role
Neara is creating a reality where power grids can be stress-tested against extreme weather before it happens, using advanced machine learning to build digital twins of electricity grids. This empowers utilities to understand challenges, optimize investments, and build a more resilient energy future. We are seeking a driven, dynamic, and strategic commercial leader to drive growth across key accounts in Europe, in a player-coach role focused on account execution and team mentoring.
Responsibilities
- Personally own and grow relationships with a portfolio of strategic accounts, serving as the senior commercial relationship owner and executive point of contact.
- Develop and deliver expansion plans across assigned key accounts to execute against business metrics and revenue goals.
- Coach the team on account strategy, executive engagement, and commercial execution on complex, multi-year contracts.
- Identify new workflow improvements and use-case opportunities, helping to upskill the broader customer-facing team in commercial best practices.
- Collaborate with Customer Success Operations, Customer Value Architects, and Product on overall account strategy and execution.
- Develop processes to scale the Key Account Management function as Neara's European business grows.
- Co-present with utilities at key conferences and events across Europe, helping elevate Neara’s market presence.
- Report on account performance, pipeline, and expansion opportunities to senior leadership.
Requirements
- Demonstrated history of personally managing and expanding enterprise-level accounts within complex technical or SaaS environments, ideally operating as a Key Account Director, Key Account Manager, Client Partner, or in a similar enterprise role.
- Experience leading, managing, or mentoring Account Managers or Customer Success Managers, ideally in a player-coach capacity.
- Experience in strategic sales, management consulting, or tech-enabled enterprise environments.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to navigate executive dynamics and foster a collaborative, customer-centric culture internally.
- Fluent in English (required).
Skills
- Consultative mindset
- Excellent communication skills
- Knowledge of the utilities industry
- Commercial execution across large, multi-year, multi-faceted contracts
- Leading or mentoring a customer-facing team
- Strategic sales
- Management consulting
- Tech-enabled enterprise environments
- Additional European languages are a plus
Location
- London
- Europe
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary + commission structure
Benefits
- Significant development opportunities with scope for lateral and upward movement in a high-growth company.
- Highly meritocratic, non-bureaucratic, and low-ego work culture.
- The opportunity to play a direct, critical role in expanding Neara’s footprint across Europe’s largest utilities to solve real-world infrastructure problems.
- Enjoy the opportunity to work across multiple business areas and build relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
About the Company
- We use advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics enabled digital twins of electricity grids across four continents, this helps asset owners understand their biggest challenges and bring the most viable solutions to life across millions of kilometres of infrastructure.
- By simulating extreme weather and structural stress at a network-wide scale, we empower the world’s largest utilities to pinpoint risks, optimise investments and build a more resilient global energy future.
- Our team is a collection of brilliant minds who are fanatical about making a tangible difference in the real world, utilising AI and machine learning to accelerate everything from data classification to complex scenario analysis.
- We have built a special culture where innovation thrives because everyone owns the mission and we need smart, creative people to help us scale this impact to every corner of the globe.
