Regional Sales Manager - Region Nord jobs at Palo Alto in France, Lille

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

Your Career

As a Senior Consultant in Unit 42 you will have the opportunity to work across a number of proactive cyber security domains including Cloud Security, Security Operations, Cyber Risk Management and Artificial Intelligence in cyber security.

Your Impact

• SOC Advisory: 4+ years of consulting experience in SOC, security engineering, SIEM administration, and incident management and demonstrated success with serving large, multinational organisations in designing and implementing an organisation’s security operations program, organisational structures, and capabilities
• Possess a deep technical knowledge in Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) platforms, Security Orchestration and Response (SOAR) technologies, Endpoint Protection and Response/Next Gen Protection and Response (EDR/XDR) tools, Next GenFirewalls, Threat Intelligence and Hunting platforms
• Defensive Security Skills (desired) : Experience in security operations design, engineering and/or analysis and investigations, ideally in complex environments, with security event correlations across a variety of sources i.e. cloud, network, endpoint, logs
• Ability to perform detailed assessments, identify areas for improvement and make recommendations to transform an organisation's cyber security operations and capabilities to better protect, detect and rapidly respond to modern threats
• Demonstrated experience in improving an organisations security operations capabilities such as improvements in asset visibility, threat detection capabilities, automation techniques, case management, enablement of compliance and regulatory requirements
• Experience in conducting threat hunting and/or compromise assessments to identify active or dormant indicators of compromise (IoCs) or evidence of unknown threats within an organisations digital environment
• Relevant industry certifications including GIAC Defensible Security Architect (GDSA), GIAC Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON), CISSP
• Understanding of cyber risk frameworks or industry standards such as 800-53, ISO 27001/2, PCI, CIS 18, CMMC
• Principal Cloud Security: 4+ years of experience performing cloud security advisement and risk assessments based upon industry-accepted standards
• Hands-on experience with a cloud hosting provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc)
• Experience with a Cloud Application Security Broker - MCAS, Netskope
• Possess a deep technical knowledge in CASBs, Cloud Platforms and the dependencies around such an environment (WAF, SSO, Cloud Threats, API Security, Cloud Security Posture Management)
• Former experience with cloud migrations (cloud to cloud, or on-prem to cloud)
• Knowledge of command-line interfaces or scripting tools in cloud environments is a plus
• Cloud Security skills (desired): Secure software development practices, including SecDevOps
• Sound knowledge of applicable frameworks & standards, including OWASP, MITRE ATT@CK & D3FEND, CIS, NIST CSF, CSA CCM & ISO 27107
• Relevant industry certifications including CSCP
• Understanding of cyber risk frameworks or industry standards such as 800-53, ISO 27001/2, PCI, CIS 18, CMMC
• Cyber Risk Management: Experience in performing cyber security threat & risk assessments to support the development of cyber security strategies and roadmaps
• Technical proficiency in a wide range of cyber risk management services, including cyber threat, risk and control assessments, secure software development practices, penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, among others
• Sound knowledge of applicable laws, compliance regulations, and industry standards as it relates to privacy, security, and compliance
• Sound knowledge of applicable frameworks, including MITRE ATT@CK & D3FEND, CIS, NIST CSF, CSA CCM
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Cyber Risk Management skills (desired) : Experience in threat modelling & application security risk assessments, secure software development practices, including SecDevOps
• FAIR Open certified & experience in applying FAIR for cyber risk quantification
• Relevant industry certifications including CISSP, CISM, CISA
• Understanding of cyber risk frameworks or industry standards such as 800-53, ISO 27001/2, PCI, CIS 18, CMMC

Your Experience

• 4+ years of experience performing cyber security consulting in at least two of the three domains above, with SME experience in one of the domains
• Demonstrates a track record in strengthening existing and developing new client relationships
• Ability to strive in a startup environment
• Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands
• Identified ability to grow into a valuable contributor to the practice and, specifically -
• Have credibility, presence, and gravitas
• Able to have a meaningful and rapid delivery contribution
• Have the potential and capacity to understand all aspects of the business and an excellent understanding of PANW products
• Collaborative and able to build relationships internally, externally, and across all PANW functions, including the sales team
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security OR equivalent years of professional experience or equivalent military experience to meet job requirements and expectations

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:

● Exciting opportunity to be a leader on the fastest growing team where experience meets cutting-edge solutions.

● Lead, coach, and develop a team of high-performing sales specialists to achieve and exceed revenue targets.

● Cultivate a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous learning and a customer-centric approach within the sales team.

● Drive strategic sales initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market opportunities. ● Engage in executive-level discussions with CIOs and CISOs, translating complex cybersecurity solutions into clear business value propositions.

● Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including sales engineers, marketing, and alliances, to support deal execution and customer success.

● Develop and implement data-driven sales strategies, leveraging forecasting and pipeline management tools to optimize team performance.

Your Experience

● 10+ years of field sales experience in cybersecurity, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.

● Proven ability to lead and develop high-performance sales teams in a high-growth environment with large quota/deals

● Strong understanding of complex solution sales methodologies, value selling and enterprise buying processes with operational discipline

● Experience selling SIEM, EDR, or CNAPP (DevSecOps, CloudOps) solutions is highly preferred.

● Established relationships with key security decision-makers (CIOs, CISOs) and the ability to drive strategic conversations.

● Expertise in channel and partner sales strategies, with a deep understanding of go-to-market models.

● Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed sales organization with a focus on continuous expansion and customer success

● “Whatever it takes” attitude and motivation to deliver above quota performance

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 $322000 - $443500/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.

This role may require travel to and from Palo Alto Networks, Inc. business meetings and events and requires reliable transportation to do so. If a hire chooses to drive in connection with company business, the hire for this role must maintain a valid driver’s license.

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

Your Impact

• As a Regional Sales Manager(Federal DoD and/or Civilian), 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 (U.S. DOD and/or intelligence community/or Civilian Agencies)

• 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

• Active security clearance

• Good knowledge of the territory: North of France

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