Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 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.
- Experience in selling IT Security solutions to enterprises and a network to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) community in the Nordics region.
Preferred qualifications:
- 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.
- Experience supporting executive relationships, and developing territories/accounts from scratch, while ensuring customer success, adoption and expansion.
- Experience in prioritizing, planning, and organizing solution-based sales activity within business cycles, including qualifying accounts and leveraging our partner ecosystem.
- Experience carrying and exceeding business goals in a sales role.
- Knowledge of market trends, products, and solutions in Cloud and cybersecurity.
About the job
As a Security Sales Specialist supporting our User Protection Services/VirusTotal/Security Operations/Threat Intelligence/Security Command Center business, 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 lead day-to-day relationships with cross-functional team members and external customers, leading with empathy, while identifying innovative ways to multiply your 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 direction of accounts.
- Deliver against quota and achieve or exceed business and growth goals while forecasting and reporting your 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 the customer, and provide prospect and customer experience.
- Construct and execute a territory development plan.
- Work with multiple customers and opportunities simultaneously, understanding each customer’s technology footprint and strategy, growth plans, business drivers, and how they can transform their business using our technologies.