Job Summary
The Solutions Consultant is a critical role that involves providing technical leadership and expertise to customers in their security transformation journey. This individual will work closely with customers to understand their environment, provide solution guidance, and ensure value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks.
This role requires a high level of curiosity and the ability to see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures.
Your Impact
* Meet and exceed sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions
* Position, demonstrate, and create high-level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
* Conduct discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers
* Work closely with Professional Services, Customer Success, and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions
* Demonstrate strong communication skills and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
* Lead successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
* Orchestrate supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy
* Promote end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner
* Understand the competitive landscape and effectively differentiate our leadership
* Continuously invest in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to the success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events
* Identify technical stakeholders and cultivate relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap
Your Experience
* Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives
* Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role; prior experience in a presales role is ideal
* Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements
* Experience in selling, designing, implementing, or managing one or more of the following solutions: Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP, and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
* Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions
* Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred
* Proficiency in German and English language skills
The Team
The Solutions Consultant 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 transform their security architectures.
We empower our team members with unmatched systems and tools and a team built on joint success. Everyone pitches in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. Our Solutions Consulting community is driven by the mission to be our customers' cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting their digital way of life.
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 [emailprotected].
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.
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