Vacancy title:
Commercial Sales Manager - East Africa
Jobs at:
Palo Alto NetworksDeadline of this Job:
08 July 2021
Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Commercial Sales Manager - East Africa
Job Description
Our Commercial Sales Team is a significant driver of company revenue and growth. As an experienced and dynamic sales professional, you’re responsible for leading and driving sales engagements. You’re motivated by the desire to solve critical challenges facing our customer’s secure environment, so you’re prepared to connect them with a solution for every stage of threat prevention.
You’ll be responsible for meeting and exceeding your quota by crafting and implementing strategic territory plans targeting deployments of the Palo Alto Networks Next Generation Security Platform. This is a unique opportunity for a closer with a self starter mentality to win business and market share by actively displacing competing technologies. Oh, and did we say you love to sell? Because selling is what gets you out of bed every morning. This is not just a career – it’s a meaningful challenge that impacts our lives in the digital age.
Your Impact
• Build mid-market sales and pipeline generation campaigns with your partners
• Perform high-level sales planning, leading to accurate forecasting of the business
• Build a fundamental understanding of security threats, solutions, security tools or network technologies
• Generate volume opportunities to deliver a predictable book of business and drive forecast accuracy utilizing channel sale opportunities
• Develop and deploy marketing activities and plans to end users through our channel sales partners
• Engage a programmatic approach to demand generate, develop, and expand your territory
• In close partnership with your Systems Engineer, you’ll demonstrate mid-market account selling strategies into a mix of install base and competitively held private companies
• Communicate value propositions to clients and partners that speak intimately to their needs and requirements
• Bring to bear all cross-functional resources to achieve your quota: inside sales, channel systems engineering, field marketing, cyber security sales specialists, the services team, sales ops (including deal desk and the response team), and others
• Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
Qualifications
Your Experience
• 3 - 5 years of above quota sales experience with an emphasis in technology
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Self-motivated, driven, and committed to transparent sales goals
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills, both internally and externally
• Superb organisational skills
• Highly competitive, ramp quickly, extremely adaptive, and pride yourself on exceeding goals
• Competence in the end to end sales process
• Interest in technology and cloud security
• Experience working in a high growth, fast-paced environment is a bonus
• Experience working with channel partners and understanding of a channel centric go to market is preferred
Education Requirement: No Requirements
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 60 Bachelor Degree
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Job application procedure
Interested and qualified? Go to Palo Alto Networks on www.linkedin.com to apply
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