Sales Specialist Sase & jobs at Palo Alto in Sweden, Stockholm

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

Your Impact

• Collaborate with sales teams to recommend and develop customer solutions within your assigned specialization
• Present to customers as our expert at all levels in the customer hierarchy, from practitioner to senior leadership
• Lead and support customer demonstrations that showcase our unique value proposition
• Responsible for prospective customers and partners' Technical Validation projects based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
• Architect solutions that will help our customers strengthen and simplify their security posture
• Document high-level design and key use cases to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape
• Responsible for discussing and highlighting product alignment with customer requirements and differentiation
• As the main technical point of contact for Network Security, you will assist and collaborate to respond effectively to RFIs/RFPs
• Position Palo Alto Networks or Partner delivered services as appropriate to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and position ours as the best alternative

Your Experience

• Fluent Swedish
• 3+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering within Zero Trust, Networking, Network Security, SaaS Security or SSE/SASE
• Outstanding customer communication and problem-solving skills
• Experience in working with customers, demonstrating problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude
• Solid understanding of NGFW, Network Security, SASE, SD-WAN, CASB, Proxy, DLP and BYOD Solutions
• Advanced knowledge of On-Premise and Cloud-Delivered Network Security Technologies

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
• High level of German language skills and business fluency in English

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

We are looking for a proven first-line sales leader with great energy, leadership, and initiative to drive team performance and revenue growth for our sales team. This role will entail:

• Deeply understanding your customers’ needs by doing the research to develop insight into their priorities

• Bring support to your team by participating in and leading prospect meetings

• Deep dive into weekly territory pipeline and forecasting activities to coach direct reports on strategies to drive closure

• Actively engage in territory planning and development, relationship development and opportunity to drive revenue by supporting and assisting your team in closing opportunities

• Lead a high-performance sales culture that delivers results in bookings, sales development, and forecast accuracy while simultaneously mentoring and developing your team

• In-depth technical knowledge of our portfolio with the ability to take a holistic approach to help solve our customers' problems

• Drive and oversee team selling opportunities

• Holds team and self accountable to achieve challenging goals while maintaining a forward-thinking approach when faced with setbacks

• Ability to communicate with leaders at all levels, including C-suite and establishes open and trusting relationships

• Successfully influences others through change management

• Development of a winning team, including recruiting, hiring and training while upholding our core values.

Qualifications

• Strategic level Sales leader with the ability to create high performing teams in a rapidly growing sales environment.

• Fluent Swedish

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

• Experience with channel and partner sales models

• Year over year track record of successful sales pipeline management and results

• Highly driven individual with an execution focus and a strong sense of urgency with an entrepreneurial mindset.

• Track record of consistently delivering revenue numbers and goals while maintaining a focus on team development and growth.

• Capable of successfully managing significant client escalations and issues

• Excellent at influencing others, both externally and internally; ability to communicate effectively and build consensus across various functional groups to achieve goals.

• You're a leader and you know that to get the best results, you also have to be a great team player, building excellent rapport and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

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

You are required to exceed your quota, obtain/maintain subject matter expertise, create/update detailed written plans, and regularly present to a variety of audiences (large and small, live and virtual).

Your Impact

• Ability to work in partnership with your respective geography’s leadership to engage the SASE portfolio to customers, partners, and colleagues
• 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
• Bring to bear all cross-functional resources to achieve your quota.
• Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
• Conduct in-person sessions, webinars and learning materials that can be consumed by the appropriate audience
• Identify cross-selling and up-selling opportunities within accounts
• Educate customers and partners on the modern network security landscape
• Establish relationships with and sell through channel partners

Your Experience

• 5+ years of field or technical sales selling SASE or SD-WAN for a multinational organization
• Above quota sales experience in a high-tempo culture
• Experience selling network infrastructure-based security appliances including, but not limited to - Firewalls, SSL/IPSec VPNs, Security Proxies and Caches, SD-WAN
• Practical experience working with routing and switching products that will be installed adjacent to our appliances
• Strong communication and presentation skills, both written and verbally
• Experience working with Channel partners and understanding of a channel centric go to market approach
• Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction

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

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

本ポジションでは、Cortex XIAM（次世代AI搭載セキュリティ運用プラットフォーム）およびCortex Cloud（クラウドセキュリティプラットフォーム）の両方を担当し、企業のセキュリティ強化を支援します。世界トップクラスのSecOpsプラットフォームを搭載したCDRが組み合わさり、Cortex Cloudによるリアルタイムクラウドセキュリティの未来を切り開きます。

製品の特徴:

• クラウド攻撃をリアルタイムで阻止

• AIによるクラウドリスクの優先順位付け、修復の自動化、セキュリティの合理化

• エンタープライズおよびクラウド向けの最も完全なSOCプラットフォームを強化

• Cortex XSIAMを統合されたリアルタイム クラウドセキュリティで拡張

担当するポートフォリオには、Cortex XDR（エンドポイント、ネットワーク、クラウドにわたる拡張検出および対応）、Cortex XSOAR（セキュリティオーケストレーション、自動化、脅威インテリジェンス管理）、Cortex Xpanse（攻撃対象領域管理）、Cortex XSIAM（拡張セキュリティインテリジェンスおよび自動化管理）、およびCortex Cloud（クラウドネイティブ環境のセキュリティプラットフォーム）が含まれます。

営業チームの主要メンバーとして、地域内の部門横断的なチームと緊密に連携し、エンドポイントセキュリティ、行動分析、SOCセキュリティ、およびクラウドセキュリティの成長を促進します。業界のトレンドと顧客のニーズの最前線に立ち続けることで、市場におけるCortex Cloudのビジネス成長を主導します。

Your Impact

• 既存顧客および新規顧客に対し、Cortex Cloudのソリューションを販売し、地域全体のビジネスを開発および推進

• コアセールスチームと提携し、顧客戦略とエンゲージメントをマッピング

• クライアントおよびパートナーと戦略的および戦術的な課題についてコミュニケーションを促進

• 市場戦略と目標を策定し、アカウント戦略の実行を支援

• 販売サイクル全体に関する詳細な知識を活用し、正確な販売予測を管理

• 地元のクラウドプロバイダー（AWS、Azure、Google）とのパートナーシップを活用し、共同活動を実施

• クラウドセキュリティおよびエンドポイントセキュリティのトレンド、競争環境についての知識を維持し、適切な営業戦略を展開

• チャネルパートナーとの強固な関係を構築・維持し、販売機会を拡大

Experience:

• EDR/XDRを含むエンドポイントセキュリティソリューション、SIEM、SOAR、インシデント対応、脅威管理、クラウドセキュリティの3年以上の販売経験

• パブリッククラウドの深い理解、およびそのアーキテクチャの独自性に関する知識

• SaaSまたはクラウドソリューションの販売経験

• DevOps、コンテナ/Kubernetes、CI/CD、Cloud Native技術エコシステムに関する強い理解

• ベンダーでの勤務経験

• 顧客志向のアプローチを持ち、チャネルパートナーとの協業経験がある方(AWS、Azure、Google Cloudのクラウドプロバイダーとの関係があれば望ましい)

Skills:

• 優れた営業力（計画、戦略立案、資格認定、実行能力）

• 優れたコミュニケーションスキル（口頭および書面、日本語必須）

• 読み書きレベルでの英語力

• ターゲットアカウント営業、ソリューション営業、コンサルティング営業技術の経験

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

• Join the fastest-growing team where experience meets cutting-edge solutions
• Build and cultivate strong customer relationships, driving business growth within the region
• Partner with the core sales team to align customer strategies and engagements with Cortex and Cloud business objectives
• Take full ownership of leading strategic sales campaigns and forecasting, utilizing in-depth knowledge of sales cycles from initial contact through procurement
• Engage in deep technical discussions beyond standard sales presentations and pitches while translating complex technical cybersecurity solutions into clear business value propositions for customers
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including sales engineers, to provide tailored customer-centric solutions
• Partner with Alliances to develop joint strategies, enhance customer engagement, and deliver innovative solutions for existing and prospective clients
• Travel domestically as needed to meet with customers and attend key business events

Your Experience

• 5+ years of field sales experience focusing on key customer accounts and delivering value to Enterprise or Major-level accounts in the cybersecurity industry
• Extensive platform selling experience in complex sales with multiple buying centers
• Experience selling SIEM, EDR, or CNAPP (DevSecOps, CloudOps) solutions is highly preferred
• Established trusted relationships with CIOs and CISOs with the ability to influence and drive strategic conversations
• Expertise in applying complex solution sales methodologies to drive results
• Experience working with channel partners and a deep understanding of a channel-centric go-to-market strategy
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment while collaborating effectively with sales engineers and cross-functional teams
• Experience operating in a continuous adoption, expansion, and upsell sales motion within a matrixed sales organization is preferred
• Willingness to travel domestically as necessary to meet business needs
• Fluent English and Swedish

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