District Sales Manager - Toronto, Canada - Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Company Description

Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before.

We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we're looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback - it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It's been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values.

We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Job Description:

Your Career
We know the SASE opportunity is massive. 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.

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose.

We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally.

These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive.

Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change.

but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

Your Impact
We are looking for a proven first-line sales leader with great energy, leadership, and initiative to drive team performance and revenue growth for our sales team

This role will entail:

Deeply understanding your customers' needs by doing the research to develop insight into their priorities
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 highperformance sales culture that delivers results in bookings, sales development, and forecast accuracy while simultaneously mentoring and developing your team
Indepth 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 forwardthinking approach when faced with setbacks
Ability to communicate with leaders at all levels, including Csuite 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.

Qualifications:

Your Experience

Experience and knowledge of SaaSbased architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security industry
SASE technology is preferred
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 crossfunctional teams

Additional Information

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