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Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks.
Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than 50% of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
Strategic Accounts Manager
The Role
We are seeking a proactive, creative, and tenacious Strategic Accounts Manager to drive new cyber security business across multiple vertical markets for a region in DACH. This role will demand interaction with large scale enterprises at the ‘C’ level, as well as with technical staff within the security and IT organisation.
You will manage a portfolio of named accounts, encompassing a mix of white-space and existing customers. Selling the full Proofpoint Platform, while leveraging all internal resources and our ecosystem of partners to enable continued growth of your account portfolio. In this role you will be able to expand the Proofpoint footprint, ensuring your customers are effectively protected from advanced threats and targeted attacks by our award winning technology.
Your day-to-day
We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.
We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint!
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks.
Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than 50% of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
Strategic Accounts Manager
The Role
We are seeking a proactive, creative, and tenacious Strategic Accounts Manager to drive new cyber security business across multiple vertical markets for a region in DACH. This role will demand interaction with large scale enterprises at the ‘C’ level, as well as with technical staff within the security and IT organisation.
You will manage a portfolio of named accounts, encompassing a mix of white-space and existing customers. Selling the full Proofpoint Platform, while leveraging all internal resources and our ecosystem of partners to enable continued growth of your account portfolio. In this role you will be able to expand the Proofpoint footprint, ensuring your customers are effectively protected from advanced threats and targeted attacks by our award winning technology.
Your day-to-day
- Establish strong business relationships at the executive level within Strategic accounts above 15,000 users (cross-vertical focus)
- Focus on both penetrating new accounts as well as expanding our presence with existing customers by introducing them to all our security, compliance and information protection platform.
- Articulate and promote the company’s value proposition and services to become a trusted advisor within your customer base
- Work with internal resources, including aligned System Engineers to prepare account strategies and plans.
- Collaborate with Systems Engineers to organise and deliver compelling and flawless product demonstrations
- Partner with the channel ecosystem to gain access into new accounts
- Deliver operational excellence, to include forecast accuracy and pipeline generation progression
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Proofpoint’s competitive positioning in the marketplace
- Experienced technology sales professional, with a particular focus on SaaS value-based technologies. Experience within Cyber Security is an advantage.
- Proven track record of over-achieving targets, net new logo achievements and capacity to leverage channel partnerships
- Relentless attention to detail and never-give-up attitude with a high level of activity, i.e., customer and partner meetings emphasizing executive value selling (CISO, CIO, CMO, etc.)
- Ability to establish business relationships at the executive level, and ability to become a trusted client advisor
- Experience of closing complex high value business opportunities
- Proficient user of formal sales playbook methodologies e.g. MEDDIC, Challenger, TAS, Command of the Message.
- Growth mindset, willingness to be coached, and diligence to follow a proven sales process
- Entrepreneurial self-starter with a consistent focus on account planning, pipeline generation and opportunity progression. You’re strategic in approach, but always act with urgency.
- Preferably you’ll have experience of using Salesforce
- Fluent English and local regional language is required
- Supportive leadership; an inclusive and employee centric culture
- Award winning and market leading technology
- We invest in our sales teams, through world-class leadership & enablement programs
We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.
We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint!
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
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- Dec 12, 2024
- Type
- Full-time
- Level
- Not Applicable
- Location
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- Company
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