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Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place. Who We Are In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us! This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters. Job Summary Your Career Our solutions are best-in-breed and customers need a trusted cybersecurity partner who can create a truly zero-trust-based security architecture. Our customers are looking to us to create critical transformations and our portfolio of solutions will help us do that. As a District Sales Manager, you will lead a team of field sellers and to help formulate and execute a strategy to maximize business growth. You are instrumental in developing and managing your team to generate revenue and achieve individual, team, and organizational quotas.
Job Responsibility
Deeply understanding your customers’ needs by doing the research to develop insight into their priorities
Demonstrated experience in hunting and landing net-new logos. We expect you to bring fresh, executable playbooks for Greenfield acquisition and to effectively lead the strategic alignment with our Associate Account Manager (BDR) team to maximize outbound success
Deep understanding of the specific dynamics, buying centers, and pain points of the German Mid-Market segment. You excel at tailoring our platform messaging for resource-constrained IT leaders and know exactly how to build trust and translate technical complexity into clear business value (ROI) for C-level decision-makers
Bring support to your team by participating in and leading prospect meetings
Deep dive into weekly territory pipeline and forecasting activities to coach direct reports on strategies to drive closure
Actively engage in territory planning and development, relationship development and opportunity to drive revenue by supporting and assisting your team in closing opportunities
Lead a high-performance sales culture that delivers results in bookings, sales development, and forecast accuracy while simultaneously mentoring and developing your team
In-depth technical knowledge of our portfolio with the ability to take a holistic approach to help solve our customers' problems
Drive and oversee team selling opportunities
Holds team and self accountable to achieve challenging goals while maintaining a forward-thinking approach when faced with setbacks
Ability to communicate with leaders at all levels, including C-suite and establishes open and trusting relationships
Successfully influences others through change management
Development of a winning team, including recruiting, hiring and training while upholding our core values
Requirements
Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security industry
Experience with channel and partner sales models
Proven leader with the ability to create high performing teams in a rapidly growing sales environment
Year over year track record of successful sales pipeline management and results
Highly driven individual with an execution focus and a strong sense of urgency with an entrepreneurial mindset
Track record of consistently delivering revenue numbers and goals while maintaining a focus on team development and growth
Capable of successfully managing significant client escalations and issues
Excellent at influencing others, both externally and internally
ability to communicate effectively and build consensus across various functional groups to achieve goals
You're a leader and you know that to get the best results, you also have to be a great team player, building excellent rapport and collaboration with cross-functional teams
English and German language proficiency – strong communication and presentation skills, written and spoken