Global Client Executive

Title: Global Client Executive

Location: Wallisellen, CH, 8304

Requisition ID: 134692

Own Every Moment at NetApp

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins.

Job Summary

The market is shifting fast. AI is accelerating. Data is exploding. Customers are urgently rethinking how they modernize, secure, and unlock value from their environments. NetApp is built for this exact moment — with a differentiated platform, deep enterprise credibility, and a clear strategy to win.

Joining NetApp now means operating in a high achievement environment where you are empowered to own every moment. Our culture is grounded in three principles: innovate to elevate, drive results, excel as a team. These are more than words. They define how we show up, how we sell, and how we grow.

As a Global Client Executive, you play a pivotal role as the trusted advisor supporting customers with their transformations - driving outcomes, expanding relationships, and growing NetApp's business through its integrated cloud, data, storage, security, and AI platform.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of C-Level customer strategies and transformation priorities to connect them to NetApp’s differentiated and unified platform and solutions.
• Act as a trusted advisor to C-Level customers by combining technical curiosity, business acumen, and solution expertise to guide customer transformation.
• Demonstrate strong hunting mentality — identifying whitespace opportunities, new workloads, emerging buyer personas, and expansion paths across your accounts or customer subsidiaries.
• Execute with disciplined sales excellence, including pipeline management and forecast accuracy, using MEDDICC aligned with discovery and qualification.
• Ensure delivery of in-quarter deal execution while driving multi-quarter account planning to create demand and solve the customers’ greatest pain points.
• Lead the orchestration of an integrated pursuit team ensuring the customer experiences one, integrated team.

Job Requirements

• You understand hybrid cloud architectures, data and AI platforms, consumption economics, and how to translate technology decisions into KPI impact for executives.
• You are results-driven, resilient, and committed to winning — not just personally, but as part of a team that elevates one another.
• You thrive in account expansion, finding new workloads and buyers and turning customer challenges into high-value opportunities.
• You are a credible executive seller with the ability to drive solution selling by tailoring discovery, storytelling, and creating value cases customized for buying personas across IT, Finance, Procurement, Security, Data/AI, and business leaders.
• You are experienced building ROI/TCO models, structuring deal economics, and guiding executives through financial decisions with clarity and credibility.
• Your communication is crisp, timely, and tailored to the buying persona. Customers trust your ability to translate complexity into clear next steps and to guide them confidently toward the right outcome.
• You believe in orchestration, clarity, and empowerment. You leverage partners, specialists, and internal resources as multipliers. You’re committed to a culture of belonging where diverse perspectives fuel stronger outcomes.
• You are results-driven, resilient, and committed to winning — not just personally, but as part of a team that elevates one another.
• Fluency in English, German and Swiss German.
• Comfortable in work travel across EU and at times the US

If you’re a builder, a hunter, a strategic closer, and someone who thrives in a culture where expectations are high and impact is nonnegotiable — this is your arena.

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You'll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.

Submitting an application

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