- Create and execute both strategic and tactical plans to significantly increase our presence, revenue and market share in select Very Large Enterprise accounts in the Central region
- Lead a team of virtual Strategic Account Managers throughout the region
- Must reside in the Central region
- Develop a comprehensive strategy and set of tactics to maximize Proofpoint sales into each assigned account.
- Lead prospecting and cultivation of all new sales opportunities.
- Assist team in Forecasting sales opportunities accurately and achieve quarterly and annual sales quotas.
- Ensure a high level of satisfaction with each assigned account.
- 7+ years of experience successfully leading high performing field sales teams spread over a large geography
- Prior experience selling Security or Enterprise SaaS solutions preferred
- Strong knowledge of new and current technologies and trends specifically in the security industry
- Strong security industry contacts in the prospective customer and influencer communities
- Outstanding consultative selling skills and ability to clearly and effectively articulate the company's value proposition
- Strong business acumen with the ability to create a business plan, build a strong business pipeline, accurately forecast and close business
- Experience driving and participating in outbound calling
- Experience building demand generation plans with marketing
- Experience selling into the fortune 100
- Build and enhance our proven security platform
- Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture
- Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel
- Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges
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Regional Director, Strategic Accounts-Central - Chicago, United States - Proofpoint
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Description
It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing
We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations' greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That's why we're a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint
The Role and the Team
Department Overview
The Strategic Accounts group leads Proofpoint's sales and account management efforts into the largest, most complex, commercial enterprises in the world.
Role Overview
We are seeking an exceptional Senior Director, Strategic Accounts for the Central to join and lead our rapidly expanding team focused on a select list of the region's largest enterprise accounts. In this role you will be leading and coaching Strategic Accounts Managers, identifying, developing, and retaining high talent who deliver value to the company's business. You will play a play a hands-on role with the field sales organization in this customer facing and highly visible position, including direct participation in closing deals at key accounts.
Establish and maintain key select customer relationships and develop and implement strategies for expanding the company's customer base
Job Requirements
What:
How:
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with ability to conduct sales presentations and interact effectively with internal and external customers at all levels
Why Proofpoint
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We're a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly 'culture-add', and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.
We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint
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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us
Proofpoint has been honored with five Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams.
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Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos.
We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers' sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees.
Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.
We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace.
At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today's advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That's why we're a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.
Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.
Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.