דרושים Cloud Security Specialist Presales ב-Palo Alto ב-צרפת

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

Your Impact

• Win new logos, renew existing customer and expand business within your territory
• Achieve ACV sales quotas on a monthly and quarterly basis
• Present regular/accurate forecasting for review
• Track and report on all opportunities, pipeline, and bookings to provide forecast reports to region management
• Establish relationships and engage with the local reseller and alliance partners on sales programs and joint activities
• Develop, share and implement standard methodologies and account strategies to increase our sales penetration of Enterprise Browser into our top accounts
• Engage with customers to identify and progress opportunities whilst delivering subject matter expertise on Enterprise Browser solutions
• Qualify and progress leads and opportunities through the sales cycle to closure
• Keep up-to-date knowledge of Enterprise Browser and other browser technologies as well as the competitive position of the company
• Conduct consistent training and communications for the sales and channel teams as well as joint engagement within the wider organization
• Contribute to the larger Palo Alto Network’s Prisma SASE strategy by providing regional specific intelligence and reporting
• Apply subject matter expertise in training, QBRs, enablement, and other engagement activities
• Gather “Voice of Customer” and competitive intelligence and share with theater and global Prisma SASE organization
• Help build and project Palo Alto Networks position

Your Experience

• 4+ years' experience exceeding sales quota as Account Manager, or Territory Account Manager for a multinational company
• Sales excellence - ability to demonstrate planning, strategy, qualification and execution
• Prior experience selling SAAS or Cybersecurity network solutions
• Existing relationships within the region, including top accounts and reseller partners
• Excellent communication skills including strong verbal and written skills and proven presentation skills being able to articulate complex topics
• Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and consultative sales techniques
• Fluent French & 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 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 public sector 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 French & 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 Impact

• Develop and execute targeted sales and go-to-market (GTM) strategies focused on pipeline generation, technically winning, and closing new customers for Palo Alto Networks Next Generation Software Firewall solutions (VM Series, Cloud Firewall, and AIRS solutions)

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including your extended sales teams, GTM, product, marketing, and channel to align Sales Plays to targeted customers in your sales territory within the EMEA region.

• Execute Next Generation/Software Firewall sales plays to build software firewall pipeline in your region in collaboration with your extended sales teams.

• Collaborate with your extended Palo Alto Networks sales teams to identify, conduct discovery, and qualify new Software Firewall opportunities with customers.

• Work with the technical solutions team to technically validate and win Software Firewall opportunities with customers.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to strategic customers and partners, driving consultative sales cycles from initial engagement to close as needed

• Identify and understand customer requirements and articulate the value proposition of Palo Alto Networks’ AI security and Software and Cloud Firewall offerings and use cases to meet those requirements.

• Evangelize the importance and value of securing AI across industry events, executive briefings, and thought leadership opportunities

• Track and report performance metrics, pipeline health, and market insights to support forecasting and strategy refinement in your area.

• Build close partnerships with the sales team and cloud service providers in the Region to identify new opportunities and close business.

Your Experience

• 8+ years of experience in a sales or sales specialist role in the cybersecurity, cloud, or AI space

• Proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets and driving net-new revenue growth

• Understanding of AI technologies, including generative AI tools, machine learning, and large language models (LLMs)

• Strong grasp of firewall fundamentals, including the ability to discuss how modern software firewalls help customers secure traffic in the cloud, prevent advanced threats from spreading across their network, gain visibility and control over applications, and enable a secure hybrid workforce.

• Deep understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals, including data security, network security, and cloud security

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex sales engagements

• Extensive experience cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders

• Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with minimal direction

• Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, engineering, or a related field; advanced degrees a plus

• Experience selling to CISOs, CIOs, and data science/security teams

• Experience working in a high-growth or scale-up environment

• Background in working with or through VARs, cloud marketplaces, or CSP partnerships

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 public sector 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 French & 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 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
• Travel domestically as needed to support team members, engage customers and business needs

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

This role can be based in the UK, the Netherlands, France or Germany

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

Your Career

This role will be EMEA focused and requires attention to detail and ability to multi task and respond to tight deadlines. It is expected that the role will have consistent interaction with sales, channels, finance, deals desk, order processing across the region, as well as with the Global HQ team.

Your Responsibilities

• Work with sales to create private offers for customers in CSP marketplace
• Manage sales processing and work with order support teams to ensure fulfillment of transactions
• Occasionally act as escalation point for private offer requests and issues
• Work with relevant teams to identify root causes and communicate appropriately to internal stakeholders
• Provide subject matter expertise and training to internal team members and partners
• Create and manage sales opportunities in CSP partner portals
• Facilitate introductory calls between sales on shared opportunities, account mapping and other sales engagements.
• Develop reports, dashboards, metrics to measure and understand effectiveness of sales & marketing campaigns, and enablement activities
• Provide and understand program and insights reporting as required to the sales and finance teams
• Support projects and initiatives aligned with functional and company objectives
  

Requirements:

• Attention to detail and excellent problem solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow-through on tasks
• Effective verbal/written communication and data presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams
• Highly organized, excellent multi-tasking skills, and efficient in ambiguous situations
• Business analysis and functional experience with quantitative, analytical and organizational skills preferred
• Be able to handle stressful situations and respond to tight deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to work in a virtual and matrix environment with an international team
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel is required; other sales tools like Salesforce.com is 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:

• 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, sales 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.

• 5+ years of field sales experience focusing on key customer accounts and delivering value to Enterprise or Major-level accounts.

• Extensive platform selling experience in complex sales with multiple buying centers.

• Experience selling Cybersecurity, 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.

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