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Nicolas Lemonnier

Nicolas Lemonnier

Sales Leader in SaaS Business
Paris

Profil professionnel

+15 years of experience as a Sales leader in High-Growth

SaaS business. Entrepreneurship mindset launching &

restructuring SaaS businesses from SMB's to Enterprises. Passionate about business 7 people, development & top exec network.

Vue d'ensemble

20
20
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Expérience

VICE PRESIDENT EMEA

FORTER
PARIS
09.2024 - Current

- Rebooting a 54M ARR business & 17m ACV Target

- Re-define completely the EMEA Go-to-Market

- Hiring & reshaping Sales EMEA team (3 RVP & 20 AE's) in 12 months

- Set up operational rigour across EMEA: pipeline management, meddpic methodology, forecast cadence, a strong enablement plan

- Develop strategic partnership with Banks & PSP

- Launch partner strategic co-selling (AWS, SAlESFORCE, PWC)

AREA VICE PRESIDENT - Head of digital & AI

SALESFORCE
PARIS
02.2024 - 09.2024
  • Running $250m ARR Business with 42m ACV target
  • Leading & aligning 8 RVP's & 42 AE's and + 100 Extended team
  • Relaunch pipeline management program (Target $150m)
  • Planning quota, people ressources, marketing plan, organisation
  • Define Data Cloud GTM for France

Area Vice-president, Head of Commerce Cloud

Salesforce
Paris
02.2022 - 02.2024
  • Growing the business in France from $52 to $120M ARR (top performer 2 years in row)
  • Defining & implementing a new 3 year strategic plan with new product launches, pricing & branding
  • Cadencing & forecasting the business
  • Engaging Top exec customers to help generate & close strategic deals (3 deals > $6M ARR)
  • Leading & aligning an extended team of 80 people for one goal: Customer success (Retention < 5%)
  • Training, developing, retaining the best talents in the industry

EMEA Regional Vice-President, Datorama

Salesforce
Paris, London
02.2019 - 02.2020
  • Launching new business in EMEA & growing from $6M to $22M
  • Defining new Go-to-market strategy for EMEA (Business model, pricing, branding)
  • Reshaping the EMEA sales team (25 sales)
  • Building & enabling a new digital agencies network across Europe
  • Sales operation integration: people, processes and tools

Sales director, Retail industry

Salesforce
Paris
02.2017 - 02.2019
  • Launching new Retail business in France growing from $1.5M to $12M (Top performer 2 years in a row)
  • Defining & executing multi Cloud go-to-market
  • Building a new team of 9 account executives

B2C account Executive

Salesforce
Dublin, Paris
09.2012 - 01.2017
  • Various sales roles accross B2C industries for Mid Market& Enterprise accounts (Top performer 4 years in a row)

Co-founder & Business Development Director

Pealk (Acquired by Viadeo)
Paris
01.2010 - 06.2012
  • Pealk is the #1 Hunting App. Easily search, sort & engage millions of professionals online!

Financial Management Program (FMP)

General Electric
London
06.2006 - 12.2009
  • Investment analyst | GE Money HQ -FRANCE-
  • Financial Analyst | CAM-GE -SPAIN-
  • Pricing Analyst | GE Money home lending -UK-
  • Financial Analyst | GE Aviation services -IRELAND-
  • GE's graduate program of 4 rotational assignments across GE businesses. Combines operational roles, intensive finance training, exposure to senior management and development seminars.

Formation

Master in Economics & business administration - Major in Finance

ICN Business School
Nancy
09.2002 - 06.2006

Compétences

  • Consultative selling expertise
  • Growth strategy
  • Talent recruitement
  • People development

Informations complémentaires

Politics

Literature and history

Classical guitar

Opera

Boxing

Langues

French
Mother Tongue
English
Fluent
Spanish
Fluent

Chronologie

VICE PRESIDENT EMEA

FORTER
09.2024 - Current

AREA VICE PRESIDENT - Head of digital & AI

SALESFORCE
02.2024 - 09.2024

Area Vice-president, Head of Commerce Cloud

Salesforce
02.2022 - 02.2024

EMEA Regional Vice-President, Datorama

Salesforce
02.2019 - 02.2020

Sales director, Retail industry

Salesforce
02.2017 - 02.2019

B2C account Executive

Salesforce
09.2012 - 01.2017

Co-founder & Business Development Director

Pealk (Acquired by Viadeo)
01.2010 - 06.2012

Financial Management Program (FMP)

General Electric
06.2006 - 12.2009

Master in Economics & business administration - Major in Finance

ICN Business School
09.2002 - 06.2006
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