Job Description

Job Description

**This person can be located in: Illinois or Texas

As a member of our sales leadership team, you will build and drive strategic sales teams to exceed company objectives while growing your Region according to plan. You’ll be responsible for building a high-performance sales culture that delivers results in bookings, sales development, and forecast accuracy while simultaneously mentoring and developing your team members to accomplish individual and organizational goals. It will be required that you track sales activity, provide sales projects, and create and analyze metrics.

A challenge inspires you, rather than intimidates you, and you aren’t afraid of setting accelerated goals to drive you to succeed. More than that, you are motivated by empowering our clients to meet their cybersecurity needs and you are driven with an encompassing passion for solutions selling. You’re not afraid of addressing the critical challenges they are facing within digital transactions – and really, you thrive on the pressure.

Your Impact

• Manage and lead a team Field based District Managers and Account Representatives–exceeding revenue targets, building pipeline, and landing new customer logos for the US strategic sales team
• Develop a business plan with clear actions to exceed regional revenue targets and build well qualified pipeline
• Work closely with the Channel, Sales Engineering and all Cross Functional teams to drive overall business results
• Deliver well-inspected, accurate weekly sales forecasts and pipeline management
• Ensure District Sales Managers have well documented territory and account plans aligned with the value proposition and differentiated strengths of the company
• Evangelize the Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Partner of Choice within End Users, SI, and partner communities and act as an ambassador for the company in the region

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Executive Leadership and Management skills, with the ability to take ownership and responsibility for a senior, fast moving and growing team.
• Resourceful, innovative and transformational. Passionate about building great teams. High EQ and ability to lead with positive influence
• Proven 2nd line leader experience in leading Sales Managers and Enterprise Account Executives
• Drives a culture of strong business execution and outcome orientation as well as innovation, particularly in coaching the team on crafting innovative solution offerings
• Track record of consistently delivering revenue numbers and goals while maintaining a focus on team development and growth.
• 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.
• Ability to create high performing teams and lead them to success

Additional Information

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.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work 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.

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $360,000/yr to $495,000/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.