Major Account Manager Defence

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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

This role is critical to achieving our goal of growing the UK Defence business to over the next five years.

The Opportunity: Driving Digital Resilience in UK Defence Industry - as we enable digitalization for greater impact. The UK Defence sector is undergoing a massive transformation. We are seeking an elite sales professional to capitalize on this investment, particularly within the Defence Industry Base (DIB) and strategic Aerospace customers.

This market is focused on delivering Digital Resilience at the core of National Security. Your work will directly enable critical modern defense initiatives, including the development of a common digital foundation of Data, AI, Synthetic Environments, and Networks to enhance speed and agility for our customers and defence.

Job Description

Your Impact

As a Major Account Manager, you will be responsible for challenging the status quo and current ways of operating by driving tech change and digitalization across our most critical defence accounts. You will be instrumental in executing our strategy to EXPAND our footprint by driving BIG DEALS through PLATFORMIZATION and strategic programs.

• Consultative Sales and Digitalization: Leverage consultative selling experience to identify complex business challenges and champion solutions that drive significant operational and business case benefits for defence customers. Focus on driving Adoption and Value of our existing security services within the DIB.
• Strategic Customer Engagement: Lead, drive, and orchestrate large complex sales cycles. Build and maintain enduring relationships with key CXX/C-exec level decision-makers across the UK Defence Industry Base, including target accounts such as Lockheed Martin, Rayteon, Qinetiq etc….
• Platform Leadership: Position our multi-domain capabilities around core modernization themes, including Zero Trust Networks and Secure Cloud & AI Assets.
• Ecosystem Development: Develop and execute sales strategies tailored for the UK Defence Industry Base, including building and executing against Joint Venture approaches with Primes and large System Integrators (SIs).
• Opportunity Generation: Actively pursue new business opportunities and identify how our Next Gen Platforms and Cyber Intelligence offerings can contribute to portfolio growth.

Qualifications

Your Experience

We are looking for a highly accomplished sales leader who is motivated by tackling complex, mission-critical challenges.

• Industry Expertise: Strong enterprise sales experience (ideally 6+ years), ideally but equally comparable industries, a strong understanding of the UK Defence Industry and Aerospace market and the wider Defence Sector, including the partner eco-system and procurement landscape.
• Driving Change: Demonstrated experience in disrupting or challenging the status quo through new business wins and platform adoption. Must be able to evidence success in selling large, complex solutions.
• Technical Acumen for Digital Transformation: Technical aptitude for understanding how technology products solve business problems. Specific experience or knowledge relating to key digital themes in defence is highly desirable.
• Strategic Engagement: Proven ability to engage at the CXX level and collaborate effectively with key partners, taking a holistic approach to problem-solving within complex interrelationships.
• Sales Execution: Demonstrated ability to follow a structured sales process, managing the full sales cycle, including pipeline creation and pursuit management across large, complex programs defined as multi-threaded opportunities with $3-4m+ potential.
• This role offers the opportunity to contribute directly to securing the nation's most critical digital environments and enabling operational advantage. 

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 research and sales libraries, and a team built on joint success. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. As a member of our sales team, you are motivated by a solutions-focused sales environment and find fulfillment in working with clients to resolve incredibly complex cyberthreats.

• Our Commitment
• We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

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.