Executive Account Manager

At NetWitness, we empower organizations to detect, respond to, and neutralize cyber threats in real time. Our cutting-edge security solutions provide deep visibility, advanced threat intelligence, and rapid incident response capabilities to help businesses stay ahead of evolving cyber threats.

This individual must have more than 5 years enterprise software sales experience with information security domain expertise. Experience selling complex technology solutions to large enterprises is a must. A proven background of successful prospecting and sales closure is mandatory. Annual sales objective and performance should exceed $3,000,000 annually. Reporting to the Regional Manager, the role holder will be responsible for managing and increasing the business stream in the Named Accounts of his/her assigned sales territory.

This is a sales role targeting the large Enterprise business market for NetWitness product lines. The candidate is responsible for generating net new business as well as for maintaining and growing relationships with existing accounts. The candidate is responsible for the overall health and sales performance, including growing the size of the large transactions including multimillion and multiyear sales, of a defined list of enterprise class accounts in defined patch, with global responsibility in some of them. Daily responsibilities will include end user sales calls, joint account calls with various internal and external partners or stakeholders, cold calling, forecasting and other sales related activities.

PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Achieve both quarterly and annual sales goals and objectives
• Responsible for the overall sales strategies and generating results across all key Accounts
• Develops and implements comprehensive local/global strategic account plans based on industry trending and customer analysis.
• Responsible for managing environments suited to instill best practices across all key Accounts
• By leveraging appropriate NetWitness offerings and expertise they will endeavor to objectively address customer needs to become their Trusted Advisor
• Participates and leads in key contract negotiations, with special focus on frame agreements, or ELAs.
• Manages the production of proposals, account or market plans, and forecast/report sales activity, and recommendations to enhance account growth and revenue potential.
• Gathers detailed information about the account (install base, financial footprint, potential revenue, etc.).
• Identifies decision makers, understands their strategic business challenges and prioritizes opportunities critical to the account.
• Works with Finance, Legal, Sales Ops, and Sales Engineering groups to effectively propose value added solutions at local or global scale
• Ensures proper qualification of sales leads/opportunities and provide high quality opportunity management during all phases of the sales cycle.
• Identifies customer requirements that may necessitate customized and complex solutions.
• Identify and close new information security sales for the defined account set
• Maintain current and rolling 12 months forecast and pipeline
• Manage consistent prospecting activities including but not limited to cold calling, seminar management and partnering with business partners
• Expand current customer base as well as land net new accounts and sales
• Directs the activities of the account teams (both Channel and Specialists) for sales, service and technical support to ensure optimum customer satisfaction with RSA products and services.
• Ensures high post-sales satisfaction that enables repeat business with customers
• Shorten the sales cycle by focusing the customer on core problems and solutions
• Collaborate with and manage team members to solve complex information security problems for customers
• Maintain NetWitness product knowledge as well as stay current with industry trends and technologies

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required, master’s degree desirable. Professional sales training courses preferred. Experience Required
• Track record of consistent sales over target achievement
• Focus on relationship building with key executives.
• Strong technical aptitude and the ability to apply technology to solve business problems
• Proven ability to achieve results working with complex organizations, both internally and externally
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work in a matrix environment
• Ability to excel managing complex, matrixed customer and internal organization
• Ability to influence others to achieve results
• Ability to manage teams and resources in a highly matrix environment
• Understanding of relevant market trends and opportunities
• Excellent and proven presentation and Consultative skills
• Negotiator - can reach appropriate resolution in many varied situations without damaging internal or external relationships
• Experience working on global/large complex accounts in multinational environments