Commercial Sales Manager jobs at Palo Alto in Switzerland, Geneva

This role requires business professional fluency in French, German and English.

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

Your Career

You will centre your role on relationship management to achieve measurable results in increased revenue, market share, and depth within each partner sales team at the assigned Partner Accounts. Your success in this role will span the creation and execution of unique business plans with each partner. You'll be measured primarily on the joint business executed with these strategic partners at the heart of the VAR, GSI & MSSP account teams. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders, including Global / International Account Directors.

Your experience across all channel routes to market (VAR, GSI, SP, CSP, and distribution) is essential. You must be able to navigate the entire channel and have long-standing existing relationships.

Your Impact

• Develop and execute business plans in collaboration with the Account Directors, driving all aspects of the partner relationship to maximize growth opportunities and ensuring the partner is well-positioned to deliver successful customer implementations and deployments
• Work well in a team environment to ensure partner and customer satisfaction
• Design a compelling value proposition that inspires this strategic partner to promote our solutions
• Develop/activate services based on our emerging and established technologies, increasing revenue growth, and liaise closely with our product teams to innovate new solutions and GTM strategies to drive new ways to differentiate in the market and take market share (drive scale)
• Provide clear and consistent communication (internally and externally) across the region with partners to build strong partnerships throughout your assignment
• Lead regular business performance and relationship reviews with senior management and various stakeholders
• Build and maintain the activity of performance reports and activity dashboards
• Work on your own initiative when it comes to partner development, solution creation, and garnering assistance across the business and partner

Your Experience

• Experience in Channel Management roles within the enterprise software ecosystem and network security industry
• Understanding of the local Swiss-German and Swiss-French markets
• Fluent language skills in English, French and German
• Understanding of VAR, SP & GSI operating models
• Knowledge of sales, marketing, and solution development
• Demonstrate strong initiative and ability to think creatively with excellent presentation, written, and overall communication skills
• Consistent track record of leading complex sales situations through negotiation and conflict resolution

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, create and execute a robust sales strategy to penetrate into new accounts and expand into existing accounts
• Be the primary sales driver, managing a pipeline to deliver quarterly/ annual quota; strong discipline around managing sales stages and SFDC hygiene
• Create clear goals and complete accurate forecasting through developing a detailed territory plan
• Understand the competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectively position the portfolio of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for that specific account
• 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
• 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
• Travel as necessary within your territory, and to company-wide meetings

Your Experience

• Proven track record of success in achieving sales quotas
• Demonstrated experience selling complex solutions, value selling, and/or consultative sales techniques
• Cultivate relationships with our channel partners to bring channel-centric go-to-market approach for our customers
• Technical aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of the full sales cycle and the ability to follow a structured sales process; experience leading all aspects of the sales cycle with the ability to uncover, qualify, develop, and close white-space territories and accounts
• Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction
• Proficiency in French and English language skills

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