Senior Sales Executive – Financial Services Germany (Banking & Insurance) (all genders)

Location: Eschborn, Germany, with close face-to-face engagement across the Frankfurt am Main/Eschborn Financial Services hub

Company

Zühlke is a Switzerland-founded global transformation partner delivering engineering, innovation, digital solutions, software, data, AI, and technology consulting for complex and regulated industries.

What you will do

• Build the Financial Services business in Germany through new-logo acquisition.
• Identify prospects, activate senior relationships, open opportunities, and lead complex sales cycles through signed contracts.
• Shape bids and proposals with Engagement Managers and coordinate offer preparation across specialist teams.
• Sell custom software, data, AI, and engineering-led services to Banking and Insurance clients.
• Engage C-level executives and senior business-line leaders and represent Zühlke in German Financial Services networks, events, associations, and communities.
• Qualify opportunities rigorously and protect target margins while closing commercially sound deals.

Requirements

• Several years of new-business sales experience in German Banking or Insurance, with a proven record of closing complex deals.
• An active, credible senior network in the target Financial Services segment.
• Experience selling custom services in complex technical environments, ideally involving software, data, AI, or technology consulting.
• Professional services experience, preferably in a delivery-led firm selling engineering-led work rather than body leasing.
• Strong commercial drive and confidence working with senior stakeholders up to C-level.
• Fluent business German, written and spoken, is essential.

Nice to have

• Strong English for internal collaboration and international contexts.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial freedom to shape the German Financial Services market and growth strategy.
• Base salary with a performance-based component linked to sales achievements.
• Access to 1,700 specialists across engineering, data and AI, design, and strategy.
• Collaborative, open, respectful, and interdisciplinary working culture.
• Opportunity to deliver measurable ROI through implementation in complex, regulated environments.