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Your Career
At Palo Alto Networks, we are committed to securing the digital world and empowering organizations with endless possibilities. As a Strategic Account Director, you will play a pivotal role in managing major, strategic accounts, establishing strong relationships with key executives, and exceeding sales quotas and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). You will adopt an indirect leadership role across a number of shared services all focused on ensuring your and our success in your assigned territory, and optimizing market presence, revenues, and results for Palo Alto Networks.
Your Impact
- Create and drive multimillion dollar, multi year pursuits with key Victorian Public Sector strategic accounts
- Build and nurture relationships with key executive stakeholders in the Victorian Public Sector
- Leverage your consultative selling experience to identify business challenges and create solutions for Victorian Public Sector prospects and our customers
- Understand the Victorian Public Sector 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 Victorian Public Sector territory plan
- Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for the Victorian Public Sector
- Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services. Demonstrate Victorian Public Sector industry knowledge, articulating unique value to customers - Develop strategies aligning Victorian Public Sector customer's business goals with Palo Alto Networks’ value proposition
- Travel as necessary within your territory, and to company-wide meetings
- Take up an indirect leadership role responsible for orchestrating a diverse shared services team to optimise revenues and profitability
- Establish strong relationships with C-level executives and decision-makers and identify mutually beneficial business opportunities with external partners
- Provide credible leadership across various business functions, fostering collaboration - Be accountable and trusted in customer and internal interactions
- Drive revenue-maximising opportunities, utilising Palo Alto Networks’ capabilities - Focus on high-value growth with long-term perspective, executing innovative business models
- Enhance Total Customer Experience and deliver maximum value through continuous improvement
- Cultivate value-added partnerships, extending Palo Alto Networks’ reach and capabilities - Deliver incremental benefits to customers through strategic collaborations
Your Experience
- To excel in this role, you'll bring a wealth of experience and knowledge in B2B SaaS sales, ideally within the Victorian Public Sector
- Relationships with key executive stakeholders ideally in the Victorian Public Sector
- Understand the Victorian Public Sector competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectively position the portfolio of Palo Alto Networks solutions
- Proven track record of leading multi-year, multi million dollar initiatives, from pre-sales to customer service handoff ideally in the Victorian Public Sector
- Successful history of direct selling, consulting, and service delivery in the technology industry, focusing on multi-year solutions
- Strong understanding of various business models and connecting them with how IT drives profitability
- Resilient and credible leadership abilities, indirectly leading across multiple functions and fostering collaboration and accountability
- Entrepreneurial mindset, identifying and pursuing substantial growth opportunities with a long-term view
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to engage with executives and decision-makers
- Strong executive presence, building relationships with senior stakeholders and partners
- Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security industry
- Demonstrated experience selling complex solutions, value selling, and/or consultative sales techniques
- Technical aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems
- 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
