Who You'll Work With
We have an exciting opportunity for a success driven sales professional to fulfil the newly created role of Client Director within our growing Sales organization in Poland. If you thrive in a fast moving, results-oriented, and rewarding environment, take a closer look at Arista Networks.
Join a team which is driving the transformation to Software Defined Cloud Networking via automated solutions to a named list of Enterprise accounts.
What You'll Do
- The Client Director will be responsible for consultative selling and solution development efforts that best address large enterprise customer needs within a small list of targeted Fortune 500 accounts.
- You will identify, develop and close sales opportunities across the Arista product portfolio including Data Centre and Campus Networking platforms including our Cloud based WI-FI and POE switches. In addition, the product portfolio includes the Arista Routing Platform, Cloud Vision (network automation & telemetry), and our DMF Fabric Monitoring, NDR, Endpoint and AI-driven Network Identity Management solutions.
- Establishing productive, professional relationships with key personnel in assigned agencies
- Creating and executing targeted account plans in concert with partner managers and sales engineering team.
- Establish customer demand through pre-engagement planning, research, and solution alignment to mission.
- Manage and align year 1 to year 3 business priorities across a named account territory.
- Create a marketing plan aligned with named accounts and territory.
You are a driven sales leader with a proven track record of pursuing and closing large big bet deals within large enterprise organizations.
- A minimum of 10+ years of Sales experience with a focus on developing large major Fortune 500 customers in the Polish market
- Working knowledge of selling networking equipment (Router, Switch, SDN, SD-WAN, Campus Networks, Network Virtualization, NFV,), data center, and/or network automation solutions are prerequisites.
- Bachelor Degree (BA/BS,CS,BBA) or equivalent. MBA desirable.
- Fluent Polish and English is essential
- Currently resident in Poland - we do not offer relocation. This is a home working / field based role
- Demonstrated leadership skills to lead both internal cross functional teams within Engineering, Legal, Marketing and external partners.
- Proven navigation of End User requirements definition through the contracting and resale processes is mandatory.
- Demonstrated people skills and ability to cultivate and maintain relationships at all levels.
- Proven track record of building business plans, documenting the processes, and exceeding sales targets.
- Travel to our customers and regional partners within the territory
