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The Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role, aligning how we best serve our customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks. As a Solutions Consultant you provide technical leadership and expertise and guidance in your customer’s security transformation journey. You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives and ensuring value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks across the product lifecycle. You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem, cloud, and security operations services that establish PANW as your customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.
Job Responsibility:
Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions
Ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers
Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions
Demonstrating strong communication skills and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
Orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy
Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner
Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating our leadership
Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events
Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap
Requirements:
Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures
Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives
Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders
prior experience in a pre-sales role is a prerequisite
Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements
Experience in selling, designing, implementing, or managing one or more of the following solutions - Network Security, SASE, SaaS, Cloud Security and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions
Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred
Familiarity working with Channel partners and understanding of a channel-centric market approach
Previous work in the German public networking security space with knowledge and experience in relevant public regulatory requirements and public procurement law