Regional Sales Manager - Higher Education - Northern Germany

Your Career

The Regional Sales Manager is a significant driver of company revenue and growth. As an experienced and dynamic sales professional, you're responsible for leading and driving sales engagements. You're motivated by the desire to solve critical challenges facing our customer's secure environment, so you're prepared to connect them with a solution for every stage of threat prevention.

You'll be responsible for meeting and exceeding your quota by crafting and implementing strategic territory plans targeting deployments of the Palo Alto Networks Next Generation Security Platform. This is a unique opportunity for a closer with a go–getter mentality to win business and market share by actively displacing competing technologies. 

Your Impact

• As a Regional Sales Manager, you will drive and orchestrate complex sales cycles and work with our internal partners and teams to best serve the customer
• Bring your experience and consultative selling skills to initiate long–standing relationships with prospective customers and executive sponsors
• Your focus will be to create and implement strategic account plans focused on attaining enterprise–wide deployments 
• Understanding of the strategic competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectively position Palo Alto Networks 
• Engage a programmatic approach to demand to generate, develop, and expand your territory
• Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for that specific account
• Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
• Travel as necessary within your territory, and to company–wide meetings

Your Experience

• 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 to accounts in the German Public Sector, ideally in Higher Education
• Technical aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems
• Identifies problems, reviews data, determines the root causes, and provides scalable solutions
• Cultivate relationships with our channel partners to bring a channel-centric go-to-market approach to 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
• English and German language proficiency – strong communication and presentation skills, written and spoken

The Team

Palo Alto Networks has brought technology to market that is reshaping the cybersecurity threat and protection landscape. Our ability to protect digital transactions is limited only by our ability to establish relationships with our potential customers and help them understand how our products can protect their environments. This is where our sales teams come in. Our sales team members work together with large organizations to keep their digital information safe. Our passionate sales teams educate, inspire, and empower our potential clients.

As part of our sales team, you are empowered with unmatched systems and tools, constantly updated research and sales libraries, and a team built on joint success. You won't find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn't committed to your success - with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. As a member of our sales team, you are motivated by a solutions-focused sales environment and find fulfillment in working with clients to resolve incredibly complex cyberthreats. You're an amazing salesperson - you're just looking for something more substantial and challenging as your next step.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

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