Regional Sales Manager jobs at Palo Alto in South Korea, Seoul

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

Your Impact

• Serve as the primary technical leader for channel partners within the assigned region
• Collaborate with focus partners in the territory to develop comprehensive business plans that align to strategic objectives
• Provide technical pre-sales support to partners, including product presentations, demonstrations and solution architecture design.
• Collaborate with your sales peers to identify opportunities for new partnerships and expand existing ones
• Plan and drive detailed technical training sessions for partners, ensuring they are proficient in the company’s products, solutions, and integration processes
• Support channel partners with technical issues during and after product implementation, acting as a liaison between them and the company's technical support teams
• Applies Business and Technical Acumen to design and deliver customized solutions based on partner and customer needs, ensuring alignment with company standards and best practices
• Stay updated on product roadmaps, new technologies, and industry trends to better assist partners in growing their business
• Assist in the development and deployment of channel enablement materials, such as technical guides, manuals, and webinars
• Collaborate with the product management and development teams to provide feedback on product improvements based on partner and customer feedback
• Drives results by maintaining detailed records of partner interactions, sales pipeline, and technical support provided, reporting progress to management regularly

Your Experience

• 6+ years of experience in Partner Solution Consulting, pre-sales engineering, or a similar technical role within the technology industry
• Skilled in at least one of the following Networking, Network Security, Cybersecurity, Private/Public Cloud Security, SOC/Endpoint or SASE..
• Prior experience working with channel is required. Strong understanding of channel sales models and experience working with resellers, distributors, and other channel partners
• Previous experience selling, implementing, or managing SaaS offerings is strongly preferred
• Experience in complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions is preferred.
• Prior experience architecting cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence business initiatives is preferred.
• Experience influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to present complex technical information to non-technical audiences
• Hands-on experience with product installations, configurations, and troubleshooting
• Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team, managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude towards resolving issues.
• Willingness to travel within the assigned region to support partners and attend events as necessary

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 member of the Palo Alto Networks Channels team, you will be responsible for delivering our initial customers and growing the territory. You will be responsible for managing your territory to deliver above quota sales performance. Palo Alto Networks has chosen to go to market with Security Focused Channel partners; you will be responsible for identifying and signing appropriate channel partners.

Your Impact

• Manage sizable Enterprise & Commercial business in Korea
• Must have experience handling partners in Korea
• Understands the power of channels and has strong channel CXO level relationships with both partners and Distributors
• Experience in both direct and channel sales a plus
• Territory business planning and execution - understands and has executed partner programs and incentives
• Technology orientation and can articulate well at CXO levels
• Proficiency in driving growth through the process - By leveraging Partner Account Planning, marketing, channels, etc.
• Focus on MSSP working with Telco/SP
• Strong exposure in working with Inside sales team and is seen as a territory leader
• Great communication and presentation skills
• Proven track record by exceeding business quotas regularly for the last 2+ years

Your Experience

• 8+ years of above quota sales/channels sales experience
• Experience working with Channel partners and understanding of a channel-centric go to market approach
• Experience working on B2B sales and/or MSSP with Telco/SP,BS technical degree or equivalent or equivalent military experience is required
• Self-motivated
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills, both internally and externally
• Territory sales experience
• Superb organizational & collaboration skills
• Experience working in a high growth environment
• Knowledge of routing and switching products that will be installed adjacent to the Palo Alto Networks appliances is a plus

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, you will drive and orchestrate complex sales cycles and work with our internal partners and teams to best serve the customer
• 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
• Engage a programmatic approach to demand to generate, develop, and expand your territory
• 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

• Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security context; awareness of SASE technology is preferred
• Experience cultivating mutually beneficial relationships with our channel partners to bring channel-centric go-to-market approach for our customers
• Have and able to lead all aspects of the sales cycle with the ability to uncover, qualifying, developing, and closing new, white-space territories and accounts
• Deep knowledge of the intelligence community
• Possess a successful track record selling complex-solutions
• Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction
• Highly competitive, ramp quickly, extremely adaptive, and pride yourself on exceeding production goals

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

• Prospect and sell into assigned commercial accounts
• Be the primary sales driver
• Managing a sales pipeline to deliver to quarterly/annual quota
• Strong discipline around managing sales stages and SFDC hygiene
• Deliver accurate weekly and quarterly forecast
• Create and execute a robust sales strategy to penetrate into new accounts and expand into existing accounts
• Build a fundamental understanding of cybersecurity threats, solutions, security tools or network technologies
• Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
• Communicate value propositions to clients and partners that speak intimately to their needs and requirements
• Generate velocity to deliver a predictable book of business and drive forecast accuracy utilizing channel ecosystem
• Develop and deploy marketing activities and plans to end users through our channel sales partners
• Engage a programmatic approach to demand, to generate, develop, and expand your territory
• Work collaboratively with all cross-functional resources to achieve your quota: inside sales, channel systems engineering, field marketing, cybersecurity sales specialists, the services team, sales ops (including deal desk and the response team), and others

Your Experience

• Experience in prospecting, specifically in the mid-market sector / commercial sector
• Self-motivated, driven and committed to success
• Proven track record of success in achieving sales quotas
• 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 managing end to end sales process
• Aptitude for technology and cybersecurity
• Experience working in a high growth, fast-paced environment
• Experience working with Channel partners and understanding of a channel centric go to market

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 Major Account Manager, you will drive and orchestrate large complex sales cycles and work with our internal partners and teams to best serve the customer

• Your consultative selling experience will identify business challenges and create solutions for prospects and our customers

• Understand the competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectively position the portfolio of Palo Alto Networks solutions

• Create clear goals and complete accurate forecasting through developing a detailed territory plan

• 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 meetings

Your Experience

• Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security industry - SASE technology is preferred

• Demonstrated experience selling complex solutions, value selling, and/or consultative sales techniques

• Experience with Manufacturing or Retail clients is advantageous, however not essential

• Technical aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems

• Identifies problems, reviews data, determines the root causes, and provides scalable solutions

• Cultivate relationships with our channel partners to bring channel-centric go-to-market approach for our customers

• Demonstrates in depth knowledge of the full sales cycle and the ability to follow a structured sales process

• Ability to take a holistic approach to problem solving by understanding the bigger picture, and considering complex interrelationships and outcomes

• Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction

• Business level Korean required, basic English preferred

• Experience in the manufacturing industry preferred

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

• Recruit and hire new Solutions Consultants into the territory, hiring the best talent in the industry
• Responsible for training, mentoring, and reviewing employees on your team, keeping them engaged and successful in their careers
• Support field Solutions Consultant team in complex evaluations, problem-solving and challenging customer environments
• Leads and coaches team on successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.
• Define, create and monitor individual development plans for your team
• Works closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions
• Provide effective technical leadership in customer interactions to include sharing security trends and standard methodologies employed by other customers to actively be part of the selling process
• Drive Palo Alto Networks Platformization efforts within your accounts
• Work closely with the Domain Specialist Manager to ensure optimal use of resources and align the required resources to the projects you are handling
• Act as an escalation point to collaborate with pre-sales and post-sales teams for any issues that arise
• Build and maintain relationships with key customers to solidify reference accounts and to assist the account teams with defining plans to drive more business
• Present to customers as our expert in your area at all levels in the customer hierarchy from technician to CIO
• Discuss competitor products in the marketplace and positions ours as the best alternative
• Working with Product Management, Technical Marketing, and R&D to build requirements and product features for our large customers and provide feedback from customers
• 50-75% travel within the region
• Work with your sales counterpart (DSM) to develop a technical strategy that accelerates growth - Identify key verticals, markets, use cases, and solutions to focus on, and devise a comprehensive strategy and engagement model tailored to your region or district

Your Experience

• Experience as a pre-sales System Engineer Manager
• Experience as a Senior System Engineer/Specialist
• Industry knowledge of security product market trends and directional awareness of our roadmap and technology development efforts, knowledge of competitor offerings and products
• Knowledge of how to deliver comprehensive security solutions to Palo Alto Networks customer base
• Experience in selling, designing, implementing or managing one or more of the following solutions - Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
• Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
• Quota driven attitude focused on client's best solution by being a trusted advisor
• Proficient in English

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $218,600/yr to $300,650/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

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