Security Sales Specialist, Strategic Accounts (German, English)
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in a sales role in the enterprise software or cloud space.
- Experience selling to clients in the enterprise cybersecurity or IT field.
- Ability to communicate in German and English fluently to support client relationships in the region.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience carrying and exceeding business goals in a sales role.
- Experience supporting long-term executive relationships, and developing territories/accounts from scratch, while ensuring customer success, adoption and expansion.
- Experience prioritizing, planning, and organizing solution-based business activity within complex business-cycles, including qualifying high value accounts and leveraging our partner ecosystem.
- Experience working with internal/external teams, including account teams, technical leads, procurement, and legal, to inventory existing software estate, build business cases for transformation with implementation plans, and close agreements.
- Knowledge of market trends, products, and solutions in Cloud and cybersecurity.
About the job
As a Security Sales Specialist you will help us grow our cybersecurity business by building and expanding relationships with new and existing customers.
In this role, you will work with customers to deliver true business value, demonstrate product functionality, and provide a comprehensive overview of key business use cases. You will build relationships with cross-functional team members and external customers, leading with empathy, while identifying ways to multiply our impact and the impact of the team as a whole to drive overall value for Google Cloud.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
- Build relationships with customers as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, managing business-cycles, identifying solution use cases, and influencing long-term direction of accounts.
- Deliver against quota and achieve or exceed business and growth goals while forecasting and reporting our territory’s business.
- Work with Google accounts and cross-functional teams (e.g., Customer Engineering, Marketing, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Channels) to develop go-to-market strategies, drive pipeline and business growth, close agreements, understand and represent the customer, and provide excellent prospect and customer experience.
- Construct and execute an effective territory development plan.
- Work with multiple customers and opportunities simultaneously, understanding each customer’s technology footprint and strategy, growth plans, business drivers, performers, and how they can transform their business using our technologies.
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