Regional Sales Manager & See jobs at Palo Alto in Romania, Bucharest

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As a Distribution Business Manager (DBM) at Palo Alto Networks, you will drive our entire Sales & Channel engagement with distributors across the NextWave partner ecosystem across the CEE region. You will own the overall GTM relationship, defining the evolution of distributors’ businesses, headcount, investments, and go-to-market strategies each year based on regional priorities. Your role includes overall business execution and performance management with the distributor, augmenting the Enterprise & Commercial Segment needs with your DBM peers and associated sales segment leads.

Your Impact

• Provide necessary data and reports to distributors to set plan targets and KPIs.
• Schedule, prepare, and lead recurring Business Review meetings (QBRs) at least three times per year with cross-functional audience
• Meet with Distributors to update the annual business plan with previous quarter’s results and set targets for the new quarter
• Establish senior executive relationships and leverage rapport with distributors’ executives to influence investments
• Lead monthly updates with the distributor(s) to cover relevant new company information
• Increase the distributor’s quoting utilization and provide adequate training
• Manage semi-annual NextWave Program Compliance efforts for Distribution Managed Partners
• Work closely with the Renewals team and distributors to improve renewals process efficiency
• Build and monitor plans with distributors to drive attendance to important events
• Give face-to-face presentations to distributors at the start of each quarter
• Facilitate cadence of 'Peering' between local management teams
• Handle escalations related to day-to-day order processing and Distributor Credit situations
• Be onsite at a local distributor at each end of month / EOQ
• Manage the Distribution Rebates by setting targets and defining MBOs
• Manage all processes and documentation related to Distribution Development Funds (DDF)
• Lead weekly forecast call with each local distributor

Your Experience

• 5 – 7 years of distribution or channel management experience
• 2 – 3 years of channel sales management experience in vendor environments
• Working knowledge and experience selling technology solutions
• Proven experience influencing senior-level partner executives
• Ability to develop complex partner and territory plans and strategies
• Strong presentation skills and the ability to describe market transitions
• Proven ability to communicate effectively and professionally
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to develop and manage virtual sales teams
• Strong time management, organizational, and negotiation skills
• Professional IT Sales and business development experience
• Strong public speaking skills

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• As a Regional Sales Manager for Romania and other South Eastern Europe (SEE) countries, you will drive and orchestrate complex sales cycles and work with our internal partners and teams to best serve the customer
• You will be responsible for selling our multiple award–winning portfolio of solutions in network security, SASE, endpoint and cloud security
• Your account base will include public and enterprise clients
• Bring your experience and consultative selling skills to initiate long–standing relationships with prospective customers and executive sponsors
• Your focus will be to create and implement strategic account plans focused on attaining enterprise–wide deployments
• Understanding of the strategic competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectively position Palo Alto Networks
• Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for that specific account
• Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
• Travel as necessary within your territory, and to company–wide meeting

Your Experience

• A successful track record in selling complex cybersecurity solutions in Romania and preferably across the SEE region
• A hunter mentality with proven ability to win and expand accounts
• Experience cultivating mutually beneficial relationships with partners (system integrators, resellers, consultancies, ISVs) to expand the go–to–market approach for our customers
• Able to lead all aspects of the sales cycle with the ability to uncover, qualify, develop, and close big tickets as well unlock new growth opportunities
• Possess a successful track record making/exceeding sales targets
• Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self–direction
• English and Romanian language proficiency – strong communication and presentation skills (written and spoken)
• Willingness to travel

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• In these markets, we pride ourselves on having a very high market share and support our customers' digital transformation from a security perspective - Our basic sales style involves proposals and contract negotiations with management and decision-makers
• You will also approach end-users and provide sales support and post-sales activities for related partners
• You will collaborate with internal departments such as product sales and the marketing team to enhance recognition in your assigned market and generate business opportunities

Your Experience

• 3+ years of high-touch sales experience in the IT industry (experience in the security industry is not required - software sales, hardware sales, or SIer sales are acceptable)
• 3+ years of corporate sales experience targeting large enterprises
• Experience in the security industry

Desired Qualities

• Excellent communication and self-management skills
• Proficiency in English at a reading and writing level
• Ability to develop accounts and build relationships with assigned customers, including executives
• Capability to formulate account strategies with logical thinking
• Ability to advance proposals by collaborating with various internal teams (different product departments), possessing team-building skills and initiative to drive projects forward

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As a Domain Consultant (pre-sales) for Cortex, an Autonomous Security Platform, you will be the expert for our modern SOC solution within our offerings with a focus on enterprise accounts and our key MDR partners.

Your award-winning portfolio includes Cortex XDR (Extended Detection and Response platform across endpoints, network and cloud), Cortex XSOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, Response & Threat Intel Management), Cortex Xpanse (Attack Surface Management) and Cortex XSIAM (AI-driven platform for the modern SOC).

You are the “go to” person for customer interactions that exceed standard systems engineering support requirements. Your role is one of technical mentorship – working with Account Managers to build integrated solutions for our client’s unique environments. With your colleagues, you will displace competing technologies, and build market share within your targeted list of major accounts in your focus region, and most importantly, help your client through the journey for a safer world, as our product integrates to build secure digital transactions. This position is not limited to a physical Palo Alto Networks office location, but instead covers a particular market for our sales prospects.

Your Impact

• Present to customers as our expert at all levels in the customer hierarchy from technician to manager
• Lead Proof of Concept (PoC) projects for prospective customers and partners
• Help our key MDR partners build and develop further their services around Cortex solutions
• Architect solutions which will help our customers strengthen and simplify their security posture
• Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape that every customer needs to be aware of and planning to deal with
• Discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and positions ours as the best one
• Lead and support customer demonstrations that showcase our unique value proposition
• Respond effectively to RFIs/RFPs while serving as the main technical point of contact
• Responsible for a solution sales-based quota and successful deployments of Cortex products
• Collaborate with field & channel sales teams to recommend and develop customer solutions

Your Experience

• Cybersecurity expertise with proven experience of SOC technologies is preferred (Endpoint, SIEM, SOAR etc.)
• Client facing experience, preferably in a pre-sales/sales engineering role
• Experience working with enterprise customers, demonstrating positive can do attitude with a client-centric approach and problem solving skills
• Networking, DevOps and Scripting (Python) are preferred
• Willingness to travel to meet customers in the CEE/SEE regions
• Strong presentation skills in Romanian and English (written & spoken)

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.