If you like providing efficient, effective solutions to complex challenges, join us at Ascent! Be at the heart of helping achieve extraordinary things with software and data for our customers!

About Us

Ascent is a design-led software, data and cloud business that specialises in advanced analytics and AI.  We are an engineering business. We design, build and manage cloud-native products, solutions, platforms & experiences on Azure.

Our pan-European community of engineers, architects, data scientists and digital consultants helps customers take on challenges and opportunities, so they can do something new, or do existing things better.

From global insurance, pharma, healthcare and retail to smart home devices, space exploration and cricket - we get to work with some of the sharpest minds in the brightest businesses.

About the role

• New Business generation, from targeted campaigns and inbound enquiries and Microsoft referrals.
• Developing new clients proactively supported by Ascent’s Marketing and PR activities
• Adopting a new business growth mindset, taking an innovative approach to growing Ascent’s client base
• Responsibility for opening and then rapidly growing new Clients, across a range of industry sectors
• Manage the sales & bid process with Clients including initial qualification, proposal production and commercial negotiations with the support of our CSO
• Work closely with our pre-sales and consultants to ensure we set Ascent‘s service standards apart
• Handling inbound enquiries and attending events sponsored or organised by Ascent to grow our presence in the industry

Essential requirements:

• Experience selling B2B, generating new business and growing existing accounts
• A consultative approach to, and demonstrable experience of, selling services/service-based solutions
• Cloud migration/modernisation experience required
• High level of fluency in German and English (min C1) both written and verbal

Nice to have:

• Software and data engineering experience
• Experience selling a combination of onshore/nearshore propositions
• Experience across the mittelstand
• Microsoft Azure experience

About you

You will be a highly motivated enthusiastic, creative salesperson committed to delivering superior client outcomes and have skills in;

• Consultative selling approach
• Personable with the natural ability to hold conversations with senior roles at the customer
• A natural networker, confident and collected, to be a natural advocate of Ascent
• Ability to open doors from cold leads and motivate self to generate successful outcomes

Working at Ascent

At Ascent we promote a healthy work-life balance by offering flexibility in where you work.  We also promote well-being and provide access to Well Being Coaches.

Your development and learning will be taken seriously, and we'll support your professional development with training and certification, with regular feedback and review. It is a fun, supportive and modern workplace where we really live by our company values of Empathy, Energy and Audacity! Ascent also offers a variety of benefits in each of our countries.

Ascent is an equal opportunities employer. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are something real here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favourably because of their gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation, please let us know when you apply.