Hiring Manager: Blayde Watkin
Talent Acquisition Advisor: Elise Kreuz Borkowski
Job Code Level: SGP3
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Candidate to be located in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada.

YOUR IMPACT
In this role, you will target assigned accounts for our Cybersecurity product portfolio by representing one of our key pillars within: Application Security, Data Security and Data Privacy, Security Operations or Identity and Access Management

Senior Account Executives are product, services, software or solution specialists that are responsible for leading pursuit in their assigned focus areas and will have named accounts allocated within a designated geography. They collaborate with Solution Engineers, Product Leaders and Channel Organization to provide specialist expertise within the sales team. They drive proactive initiatives to generate pipeline through direct prospecting, networking, and Business Development Representative campaigns to build the pipeline of leads. The role uses specialized knowledge in any one of the Application Security, Data Security/Data Privacy, Identity& Access Management and Security Operations to build demand through use cases and qualify, negotiate, and close opportunities.

WHAT THE ROLE OFFERS

• Understanding the whitespace and promoting new product placements into all accounts.
• Managing the sales process from solutions identification to solution delivery that results in a successful product placement.
• Helping with areas to defend our current position to achieve incremental growth.
• Focusing on customer gaps to build a sales plan to address customer requirements with an associated return on investment.
• Leading customer through a buying process and challenge their thinking by guiding a mutual buying process applying the right resources and information (professional services, SE, PM, White papers, use cases, model).
• Developing long-term sales pipeline to increase the company's market share in specialized areas.
• Building authentic relationships with decision makers, influencers, and supporters across organizations to drive adoption and help build sustainable customer value.
• Selling complex solutions across multiple verticals.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

• Creating strong business relationships and negotiating large enterprise deals.
• Verifiable achievement of consistent, over quota attainment.
• Collaboration, and ability to navigate a matrixed organization.
• 5+ years of successful software sales experience in similar space in:
• Application Security
• Data Security and Data Privacy
• Identity& Access Management
• Security Operations
• Typically, 8+ years of enterprise software sales experience with results closing large complex deals.
• University or bachelor’s degree.
• Effective communication skills both written and spoken.

ONE LAST THING

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