About Achille
Italian
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
German
Conversational
Experience
- Houzz GmbHSenior Sales Development Representative → Acting Account ExecutiveJanuary 2022 - June 2023 (1 year and 5 months)Berlin, GermanyOwned the full sales cycle for the Italian SMB/mid-market segment — from outbound prospecting and cold outreach (120+ calls/day) to discovery, product demo, negotiation, and close — with zero handoff to a separate AE.• • Strategically positioned multi-feature SaaS solutions to key decision-makers (business owners, marketing managers, studio leads), applying value-based and consultative selling to align product capabilities with client pain points.• • Consistently exceeded quota by 130–160%, ranking among the top performers across all markets and regions; +40% above meetings-booked target quarter over quarter.• • Maintained rigorous Salesforce pipeline hygiene — tracking lead status, deal stage, forecasting accuracy, and follow-up cadences — contributing to zero pipeline surprise at end-of-quarter reviews.• • Designed and optimized multi-step outreach sequences in Outreach.io, improving lead-to-qualified opportunity conversion rates and pipeline velocity for the Italian market.• • Collaborated with Account Executives and Customer Success to ensure smooth post-sales handoff, and with Marketing to refine Italian-market messaging and improve lead quality.• • Gathered continuous market intelligence on SMB decision-making dynamics, pricing sensitivity, and competitive objections — sharing structured insights to improve sales scripts and outbound playbooks.Key results:▸ 130–160% quota attainment◦ · Top performer across all markets◦ · +40% above meetings target
- Concentrix (Facebook/Meta Project)Client Services Representative —September 2020 - September 2021 (1 year)Berlin, GermanySupported European SMB and mid-market clients on Meta advertising solutions — consultative advisory, performance analysis, and compliance management at scale.• • Advised B2B clients across multiple European markets on advertising strategy and platform compliance, delivering performance-based recommendations that drove measurable ROI improvement — a consultative approach directly transferable to selling security and compliance SaaS.• • Managed 70+ daily client interactions (chats, calls, emails) while maintaining SLA targets and consultative quality — demonstrating the ability to handle high-volume pipeline with discipline.• • Resolved complex account health, compliance, and billing issues for B2B clients — building trust and maintaining long-term relationships under pressure, skills directly relevant to navigating GDPR and data protection conversations with DataGuard prospects.• • Contributed process improvement insights adopted at scale — demonstrating the structured, improvement oriented mindset DataGuard values in its sales team.
- Sixt GmbH & Co. KGSales & Customer CoordinatorOctober 2021 - January 2022 (3 months)Berlin, GermanyManaged full customer commercial lifecycle with active upselling (insurance, upgrades, ancillary services), consistently contributing to branch-level KPIs in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.Maintained CRM accuracy and SLA compliance while resolving complex billing and account cases — demonstrating pipeline discipline and customer-centric problem solving.
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Education
- MSc in Business & International ManagementUNINT — International University of Rome2020MSc
- BA in Languages, Culture, Literature and TranslationSapienza University of Rome2016BA