Cloud Sales Specialist

Why Join Us?

You will join an exciting and high growth business unit with Check Point, positioning the industry’s most comprehensive cloud native security platform, with the industry’s broadest security and compliance coverage for applications, data, and the entire cloud native technology stack throughout the development lifecycle and across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing a territory and driving the sales for our CloudGuard security solutions, into new and existing customers.

It is expected that you deliver or exceed your sales targets in both new business and renewals for ACV and TCV bookings.

The role expects you to define your territory, strategies and then lead local execution and in alignment to company strategies and tactics with its Cloud Provider partnerships including, but not limited to, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Accenture and IBM.

We are looking for individuals who are excited to share in what is a high energy start-up mentality within a secure and successful $2bn organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Win new logos and expand business within your assigned list of target accounts.
• Achieve ACV sales quotas on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Generate and maintain a 4 rolling quarter pipeline.
• Present regular/accurate forecasting for review.
• Track and report on all opportunities, pipelines, and bookings to provide forecast reports to region management.
• Engage with the local Cloud Provider (AWS, Azure, and Google) sales programs and joint activities.
• Develop, share, and implement standard methodologies and account strategies to increase our sales penetration of Cloud Security into your top accounts.
• Engage with customers to identify and progress opportunities whilst delivering subject matter expertise on Cloud & Cloud Native Security solutions.
• Qualify and progress leads and opportunities through the sales cycle to closure.
• Keep up-to-date knowledge of Cloud Computing, DevOps & Cloud Native technologies as well as the competitive position of the company.
• Gather “Voice of Customer” and competitive intelligence and share with theatre and global Cloud organisation.
  
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in sales.
• A hunter mentality with the drive to win new logo accounts and upsell to existing accounts.
• An understanding of working in a matrix business, selling directly, through, and with the overall assigned account manager.
• Sales excellence; ability to demonstrate planning, strategy, qualification, and execution.
• Deep understanding of Public Cloud and the uniqueness of public cloud architectures.
• Prior experience selling SAAS or Cloud solutions.
• Existing relationships within one or all Public Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, Google) is preferred.
• A strong understanding of DevOps, containers/Kubernetes, CI/CD, and the cloud native technology ecosystem.
• Excellent communication skills including strong verbal and written skills and proven presentation skills being able to articulate complex topics.
• Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and consultative sales techniques.