Splunk

Account Executive – UK Intelligence, Security

Splunk

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

CloudSplunk

About the role

  • Consistently deliver against ambitious targets with a strong focus on predictability, long-term engagement, and mission value
  • Own and manage a strategic portfolio of accounts within the UK intelligence and national security domain
  • Shape long-term engagement strategies, drive account planning, and coordinate with internal teams to align on mission objectives and programmatic needs
  • Navigate complex stakeholder ecosystems, including technical, operational, and procurement channels within sensitive or classified environments
  • Collaborate with in-house sales engineering, security, and delivery teams to design and deliver solutions tailored to critical use cases such as cyber defence, threat detection, insider risk, and operational resilience
  • Apply Splunk’s value proposition to real-world intelligence and security challenges—leveraging data to drive situational awareness and mission outcomes
  • Serve as a trusted advisor and advocate for your customers, ensuring they gain full value from their investments in data and technology
  • Engage regularly with C-level, senior officials, and technical leaders, understanding both strategic and tactical priorities
  • Operate within a high-performing team culture with a focus on shared goals, accountability, and continuous improvement

Requirements

  • Proven success (minimum 3 years) in strategic account management or mission engagement within the UK public sector, ideally with direct experience supporting intelligence agencies, national security organisations, or secure government departments
  • Ideally, holding existing SC or DV clearance within the community
  • Deep understanding of the operational needs and challenges facing the UK intelligence and security sector, including sensitivity to governance, risk, and assurance processes
  • Experience managing complex account environments, building trusted relationships, and aligning technology solutions to evolving mission priorities
  • Outstanding interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills in English, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders and technical teams alike
  • Strong executive presence, with comfort navigating ‘C-Suite’ and senior official engagements within government or defence
  • Experience of closing complex software or platform deals, ideally within government procurement frameworks (e.g. G-Cloud, DOS, CCS, or equivalent)
  • Understanding of SaaS or cloud-based forecasting, opportunity risk management, and public sector procurement cycles
  • Strong growth mindset and adaptability—curious, self-aware, and willing to learn continuously in a dynamic, regulated environment
  • Comfortable operating independently and remotely, while maintaining strong collaboration across internal teams and external stakeholders
  • Willingness to travel regularly across the UK for customer meetings, on-site engagement, and industry or government events
Benefits
  • Equal Opportunity Employer

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
strategic account managementmission engagementcyber defencethreat detectioninsider riskoperational resilienceSaaScloud-based forecastingopportunity risk managementgovernment procurement
Soft skills
interpersonal skillsverbal communicationwritten communicationexecutive presencerelationship buildingadaptabilitycuriosityself-awarenesscollaborationcontinuous improvement
Certifications
SC clearanceDV clearance
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