Senior Account Executive

Company: Novum Global
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Location: London
Job Description:

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced and commercially driven Senior Account Executive to lead enterprise sales efforts focused on acquiring new law firm clients across the UK. This is a strategic, consultative sales role focused on managing complex buying cycles and building relationships with senior stakeholders across top-tier and mid-market law firms. You will take ownership of the full sales process from prospecting through to close.

Key Responsibilities:

New Business Development

  • Drive new logo acquisition across UK law firms, targeting top 200 and mid-market firms.
  • Develop and execute territory plans focused on generating pipeline and closing new business opportunities.
  • Identify and engage senior decision-makers including Managing Partners, Heads of Litigation, Innovation Directors, Knowledge Managers, CIOs, and Legal Operations leaders.
  • Build outbound prospecting strategies through networking, referrals, strategic outreach, and industry engagement.

Enterprise Sales Execution

  • Manage the full sales cycle from discovery through product demonstrations, commercial negotiation, procurement, and close.
  • Lead consultative sales conversations focused on understanding law firm operational challenges and aligning our solutions to business outcomes.
  • Navigate complex multi-stakeholder enterprise sales processes within law firms and legal organisations.
  • Build and manage a strong pipeline capable of consistently achieving revenue targets.

Strategic Relationship Building

  • Establish trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across law firms and legal technology buying committees.
  • Become a subject matter expert
  • Represent us at legal technology events, conferences, and industry networking opportunities.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Work closely with Sales Engineering, Customer Success, Marketing, and Product teams to deliver a strong customer buying experience.
  • Collaborate internally on account strategy, competitive positioning, and go-to-market initiatives.
  • Maintain accurate forecasting, pipeline hygiene, and opportunity management within CRM systems.

Market Expertise

  • Stay informed on developments within legal technology and law firm innovation strategies.
  • Understand the evolving challenges facing law firms.
  • Provide market intelligence and competitive feedback to leadership.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years experience in enterprise SaaS sales or strategic B2B technology sales.
  • Proven track record exceeding quota in a full-cycle Account Executive or Senior Account Executive role.
  • Experience selling into law firms or the wider legal sector is strongly preferred.
  • Background selling legal technology, document management software, workflow automation, enterprise SaaS, or other complex software solutions.
  • Experience managing six-figure and multi-year enterprise software deals.
  • Strong consultative selling and discovery skills with the ability to engage senior decision-makers.
  • Comfortable managing long and complex enterprise sales cycles.
  • Excellent commercial negotiation and closing capabilities.
  • Strong pipeline generation and outbound prospecting ability.
  • Experience using Salesforce or similar CRM platforms.

Preferred Experience:

  • Experience selling to top UK law firms.
  • Existing network within UK law firms or legal technology buying communities.
  • Experience working within high-growth SaaS environments.

Key Success Metrics:

  • Achievement of quarterly and annual new business revenue targets.
  • Growth in pipeline generation and qualified opportunities created.
  • Successful acquisition of new law firm clients across the UK market.
  • Strong forecast accuracy and disciplined sales execution.
  • Development of strategic relationships across key legal industry stakeholders.

Posted: July 5th, 2026