
Romain Franczia
Senior Go-to-Market Strategy Consultant | SaaS
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Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
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About me
Intro
Enterprise Sales Leader with 20+ years of experience scaling revenue 3-10x across EMEA markets. MEDDIC expert trained in Silicon Valley with proven track record building 7-figure deals at Salesforce, Oracle, and Seismic. Specialized in GTM strategy for SaaS/MarTech companies entering 'challenging' foreign markets, with multilingual capabilities and a talent for building high-performing international teams.
Work experience
Founder
S(W)ELL GTMFreelance
Sep 2024 - Present
2 years 2 months
Paris, France
A successful go-to-market strategy requires both great skills and great market conditions. It's just like surfing the ocean -when you need both the swell and the right set of skills and technique to make magic happen. This is why I named it S(W)ELL-
VP South Europe @Seismic
Seismic
May 2021 - Oct 2024
3 years 6 months
Paris, France
Getting Sales and Marketing to work better together. Enabling Sales Professionals to embrace innovation and telling great compelling stories. My mission statement is simple : Building Southern Europe Scaling and generating sustainable revenue, hiring great international teams, and make happy customers. Focused on Value, being obsessed with Customer Success and Employee Recognition
Leader. Helping Global Brands in Personalizing Customer Experiences @Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield
Sep 2017 - May 2021
3 years 9 months
Paris Area, France
Dynamic Yield is the undisputed leader in Personalization. Magic Quadrant Leader 3x in a row Acquired By McDonald's for over $300M in 2019. I was the First man on the ground. Owner of the Go-to-Market and P&L for France, Iberia and Italy Started from scratch : $0 ARR/ACV Book of business No certified partner Not a single local references in France nor Iberia No brand awareness Highly Competitive Market with local established players (AB Tasty, Kameleoon, Target To Sell) Moving away from a typical Grindy tactical Start-Up commercial Sales transactions to to a strategic Enterprise Sales Approach. Bigger deals, scalable and reliable book of business. Results Crossed 1M ARR line Global Agreements in Place Recruited and certified 5 Partners Offices in Paris and Barcelona Onboarding mostly Global CAC 40 IBEX 35 FTSE MIB Companies Enterprise Sales : Lacoste, Fendi, Dior, Rimowa, TAP Portugal, Iberostar, Increasing the the average ARR by 5x 100% Renewal Rate 2nd year Challenges Remote Resources, Local Established Competition, no PR, Limited Marketing Budgets, No Brand Equity Whatsoever, Non existing Enterprise Sales Culture
Kenshoo
Mar 2014 - Oct 2017
3 years 8 months
Paris Area, France
Managing Director, Social, EMEA
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
10 months
Paris Area, France
Managing a team of 20 sales and customer success professionals across Europe UK, Nordics, Germany, South Europe Coaching, Inspiring, Delivering results as an International Team Responsible for talent acquisition and Local Go-To-Market including Product packaging, Pricing and Roadmap. My role is to make sure our teams are enabled to leverage innovative, constantly evolving ads format, audiences targeting and cross device measurement capabilities
Managing Director South Europe
Mar 2014 - Dec 2016
2 years 10 months
Paris Area, France
Over a course of 3 years : 5X Revenue Multiplier from few hundred k's to a Multi-Million P&L Hiring and Managing 7 people across 3 geos : France, Iberia, Italy in Sales, Pre-Sales, Customer Success Enabling Enterprise Selling and Delivery, directly and indirectly via partners Inspiring a new team to lead and deliver in a highly competitive AdTech environment dominated by large players Changing the local organization to move away from tactical, % media based revenue to Large, Fixed MRR/ARR Premium Models Predictive, reliable revenue forecasting MEDDIC, Basho, Sandler's, Value Selling, Story Telling, Methodologies via regular coaching, and mirroring Enabling best-in-class Saas business processes to deliver : -Profitable long term customers -Effective support -Limited Customer Churn -Long Term partnerships -Partner Recruitment Limited resources : No PR, No SDR, Minimal Advertising, Lean Event Marketing Strategy My mission statement : - To acquire new profitable customers and keep the existing ones happy and successful Love being a multi-hat Intrapreneur in a fast paced, global and super competitive environment. My goal is to keep building a sustainable, profitable business in this region with the help of very talented teams across the globe. Driving results to our customers, shareholder and employees.
Salesforce.com
Aug 2010 - Mar 2014
3 years 8 months
Paris Area, France
Strategic Account Executive, Paris,
Feb 2012 - Mar 2014
2 years 2 months
Paris Area, France
Carrying a Multi-Million Quota Promote and evangelize CRM and Cloud Computing aka Saas in South Europe France, Spain, Italy Hyper growth Pains Competitive Market Reluctance of Cloud Based Solution vs On-Prem in a conservative market Growing the Pipeline, Closing Large Enterprise Deals with Ubisoft, Zodiac, Dover Group, Addecco... Supporting the local Leadership with a tremendous amount of work in hiring, training and ramping up Sales and Customer Success Professionals Ownership of customer success with multiple stakeholders within SFDC Verticals : Manufacturing and High Tech Achievement : 98% of Quota
Senior Account Executive, San Francisco, CA
Aug 2010 - Mar 2012
1 year 8 months
San Francisco, CA, USA
The only French National Account Executive in the Silicon Valley Region. -> Think about doing a super challenging job in a very competitive market, in a language that's not your mother tongue. And yeap, I made it! Selling Saas CRM to High Tech Companies in the Bay Area. Highly Competitive market, yet extremely rewarding Mission : - Carrying a multi Million Quota - Closing deals with local Tech Savvy Execs - Competitive situations, that you overcome by telling Compelling Story Telling - Convincing prospects that Saas is the future of Software at a time when it's wasn't obvious - Build value proposals at scale - Selling the vision to different layers of org (Sales, IT, Marketing) - Best in class Sales Automation Processes, Pipeline Generation and Forecasting Revenue Achievements FY11 : - 167% - Win 7 new accounts - Never lost an account to the competition
Oracle Corporation
Aug 2008 - Aug 2010
2 years 1 month
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Hyperion Account Manager, Santa Clara, CA
May 2009 - Aug 2010
1 year 4 months
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Named account : > $500 Mill revenue companies Financial services, Manufacturers, Professional Services Global account management : US-CAN-Europe Mission Strategic solution positioning Opening new global accounts Results : -Opened 4 new accounts -Generated $100K of new pipe every week for 11 month - Achieve 100% of budget against a $1.5 M quota
EPM Applications (Hyperion) Account Manager, Santa Clara, CA
Aug 2008 - Aug 2010
2 years 1 month
Santa Clara, CA, USA
EPM Enterprise Perfomance Management (Hyperion) Territory: New England- NY Metro Area- Eastern Canada Mission: Promote the Hyperion product suite to the Mid-Market space Conceive and execute a strategic territory plan Open new accounts Results: Created at least 3 new opportunities or $100K of pipeline a week for 9 month FY 09 : 102% of budget against a $1.4 M quota
Global Account Manager, Paris, France
ORSYP
Sep 2006 - Mar 2008
1 year 7 months
Paris Area, France
Responsible for 5 Global strategic customers among the Fortune Global 150. Achievements: - Pipeline building : 5 Millions every six month for 2 years - Establish and develop C-level relationships - Conception and execution of a global strategic territory plan - Forecasting accuracy and reliability : within 10% of actuals - Team player : manage a virtual team of 10 people globally Results : - Consistently overachieved a 2.2 Millions euros quota -FY 07 :117% -FY 08: 126%
Account Manager
Oracle France
Sep 2004 - Aug 2006
2 years
Paris Area, France
Responsible for the 5 largest French Financial Services companies Mission: - Promote a wide range of technology products to attain specific goals per product lines - Building deals/ Negotiating overseas on three different continents (Europe, America and Asia) in two languages (English/French) - Consultative selling approach and territory planning to upsell and cross sell existing customers Results : FY06 107% by closing 1.92M Euros FY05 115% by closing 2.14M Euros
Ingénieur commercial
CEGID
Aug 2002 - Aug 2004
2 years 1 month
Responsable de compte Indus, Retail et Tertiaire New Bi/Net new Chasse pure/ouverture de comptes Construction et execution de plan de prospection a grande echelle Gestion de cycle de vente complexe, negociation Region Sud Est Offre BI : Open Executive et Open Convergence Basé à Lyon
Education
Stanford University
Continuing Studies
2008 - 2008
1 month
HEC Montréal
BA
1999 - 2001
2 years 1 month
Lycée Ampére
Classes Préparatoires HEC
1998 - 1999
1 year 1 month
Lycée Jean Perrin
High School
1994 - 1997
3 years 1 month