Full-Time Named Account Manager - SLED

The Named Account Manager - SLED 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.

Palo Alto Networks is leading the charge in platformization, offering best-in-breed solutions that enable customers to build a truly zero-trust security architecture and navigate critical transformations.

Your Impact

As a Named Account Manager - SLED, you will drive and orchestrate complex sales cycles and work with our internal partners and teams to best serve the customerBring 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 servicesTravel as necessary within your territory, and to company-wide meetings

Your Experience

Proven Experience selling into the SLED market, with a strong focus on state level accounts, particularly state of MarylandExperience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security contextExperience cultivating mutually beneficial relationships with our channel partners to bring channel-centric go-to-market approach for our customers

Have and able to lead all aspects of the sales cycle with the ability to uncover, qualifying, developing, and closing new, white-space territories and accountsPossess a successful track record selling complex-solutions Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction

Highly competitive, ramp quickly, extremely adaptive, and pride yourself on exceeding production goals

The Team

Our sales team members work hand-in-hand with large organizations around the world to keep their digital environments protected. We educate, inspire, and empower our potential clients in their journey to security.

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.

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