Senior Account Executive

Department: Sales

Location: Home based, UK 

Reports to: Director, Enterprise Accounts

Hours: 37.5  per week

Salary: (Depending on experience) 

Role Overview 

Are you a top-performing sales professional looking for your next big opportunity? At Cambridge Spark, you’ll work with FTSE 100 companies and leading global enterprises to drive workforce transformation through cutting-edge Data and AI training.

As a Senior Account Executive, you’ll work directly with senior decision-makers, aligning innovative training solutions with their strategic goals to deliver measurable business impact. This is your opportunity to drive transformation for some of the most recognised organisations in the world, while achieving your own ambitious career and financial goals in a fast-growing, high-performance environment.

We are seeking a dynamic and results-driven Senior Account Executive to fuel growth and expand our presence within a portfolio of key enterprise clients. This role is crucial for executing our growth strategy, with a focus on identifying and capitalising on new business opportunities within existing accounts to drive substantial revenue growth.

Joining our fast-scaling organisation means unparalleled career growth, where your performance directly shapes both company and personal success. You’ll collaborate with some of the most recognised organisations, leading their Data & AI workforce transformation journeys, while enjoying a generous compensation package with uncapped earning potential.

Key responsibilities:

Candidate Specification: 

• Proven Success in Enterprise Sales
  A track record of exceeding targets and driving growth within a B2B environment, ideally working with complex solutions or services.
• Executive Presence
  Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to build trust and influence senior stakeholders.
• Strategic and Results-Oriented
  Proficiency in structured sales frameworks (e.g., MEDDICC, Challenger) and a talent for identifying growth opportunities.
• Self-Driven and Goal-Focused
  A proactive mindset with the discipline to thrive in a remote-first environment and the ambition to exceed expectations.
• Passion for Innovation and Impact
  A genuine interest in technology, education, and driving meaningful change in how businesses adapt to the AI era.

Company Benefits: 

• Remote first company providing flexibility to work from home
• Pension with up to 5% matched contributions
• 25 days holiday + Flexi bank holidays + 1 day off on your birthday
• A day for volunteering
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave 
• Health & Wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month
• Annual Summer and Xmas events
• Company socials including everything from Cambridge College formals, pub nights to team building events
• CPD Allowance
• Private medical insurance and cash plan
• Holiday buy back scheme (up to 10 days p/a)
• EAP with 24 hour confidential support line

Background to the Organisation

We are an education technology company that enables corporate and government organisations to achieve their business goals by educating their workforce with critical digital transformation skills to succeed in the AI era.

We deliver unique and innovative professional education that is accelerating the digital transformation of our clients, advancing the careers of their employees, helping people get into work and closing the digital skills gap. We are in a sector that is crucial to the economy and workforce, with a lot of opportunity for change and innovation. We are at the cutting edge of teaching applied data and digital skills, with our unique patented learning platform EDUKATE.AI offering our clients and learners a unique learning experience. EDUKATE.AI was developed with support from Innovate UK and provides all of our learners with 24/7 immediate feedback on their work, helping accelerate the learning process and providing a sandbox environment to experiment on real world datasets.

Since 2016, we have supported more than 15,000 learners across four continents with nearly 550,000 pieces of code submitted for feedback on EDUKATE.AI. We are trusted by some of the most recognisable brands in the world to educate their workforce, including Microsoft, the NHS, GSK, easyJet, the BBC and John Lewis. Our focus on applied learning to create business impact sets us apart - individual learners have reported applying their skills at work to generate recorded value of up to £40m. 

Values

At the centre of the way we work together and inspire each other to achieve success are these core values:

Entrepreneurial

We take initiative and show entrepreneurial spirit which fuels innovation at Cambridge Spark. This includes identifying opportunities for improvement, taking ownership for implementing solutions effectively and driving improvement by using proof of concepts to demonstrate the feasibility and value of their work.

Team Spirit

Everyone is part of building an open and transparent culture, communicating effectively to raise issues, discuss improvements and share the evidence used to make decisions.

Customer-focused

Our customers are at the centre of everything we do, inspiring us to create great work. We strive to build friendly, professional and lasting relationships with them to better understand and anticipate their needs.

Gold Standard

We are experts in our field and are constantly developing our technology and offering. We set the benchmark in our industry: both in what we offer customers and in how we deliver it.

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Cambridge Spark is an Equal Opportunities Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.  Cambridge Spark is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunities for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Cambridge Spark are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour or ethnicity, ability or disability, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Cambridge Spark will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Cambridge Spark encourages applicants of all ages.