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
- Proficient in Italian and English
Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
