Commercial Sales Manager - Northern Bavaria (zip code 9)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission: 

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. 

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are. 

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Job Description

Your Career

Our Commercial Sales Team is an important driver of company revenue and growth. As an experienced and dynamic sales professional, you will be responsible for leading and driving sales engagements into assigned commercial accounts. In this role, you are 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 will be responsible for meeting and exceeding your quota by crafting and implementing strategic and tactical sales plans targeting deployments of the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform. This is a unique opportunity for a closer with a self-starter mentality to win business and market share by actively displacing competing technologies and further improving the security posture of existing customers. Oh, and did you say you love to sell? Because selling is what gets you out of bed every morning. This is not just a career – it’s a meaningful challenge that impacts our lives in the digital age.

Your Impact

• Prospect and sell into assigned commercial accounts
• Be the primary sales driver
• Managing a sales pipeline to deliver to quarterly/annual quota
• Strong discipline around managing sales stages and SFDC hygiene
• Deliver accurate weekly and quarterly forecast
• Create and execute a robust sales strategy to penetrate into new accounts and expand into existing accounts
• Build a fundamental understanding of cybersecurity threats, solutions, security tools or network technologies
• Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
• Communicate value propositions to clients and partners that speak intimately to their needs and requirements
• Generate velocity to deliver a predictable book of business and drive forecast accuracy utilizing channel ecosystem
• Develop and deploy marketing activities and plans to end users through our channel sales partners
• Engage a programmatic approach to demand, to generate, develop, and expand your territory
• Work collaboratively with all cross-functional resources to achieve your quota - inside sales, channel systems engineering, field marketing, cybersecurity sales specialists, the services team, sales ops (including deal desk and the response team), and others

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Min. 2 years of sales experience in a software-selling role with proven track record of success
• Experience building a network and winning new logos
• Self-motivated, driven and committed to success
• Positive and customer-centric attitude
• Aptitude for technology and cybersecurity
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills in German and English
• Experience working in a matrix organisation would be preferred
• Experience working with Channel partners and understanding of a channel-centric go to market would be preferred

Additional Information

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, 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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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