Solutions Consultant

Palo Alto Networks; United Arab Emirates; Remote; AED 240,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity firm in the United Arab Emirates seeks a Solutions Consultant to drive customer engagement and deliver innovative cybersecurity solutions. The candidate will be responsible for meeting sales quotas, conducting technical presentations, and fostering customer relationships. A strong background in data networking, excellent communication skills, and proficiency in English are essential. This full-time role allows for remote work, and the firm emphasizes diversity and support for all employees.

Qualifications

• Understanding of data networking and modern application design.
• Experience in selling or managing cybersecurity solutions.
• Prior experience in a pre-sales role is ideal.
• Experience in conducting technical validation engagements.

Responsibilities

• Exceed sales quotas by implementing strategic account plans.
• Conduct discovery to understand customers' requirements.
• Work with Professional Services and Customer Success teams.
• Demonstrate strong communication skills in presentations.

Skills

Understanding of data networking

Delivering cybersecurity solutions

Influencing stakeholders

Creating technical presentations

Experience in network security solutions

Partnering with Customer Support

Complex sales experience

Proficient in English

Job description

Your Career

The Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role aligning how we best serve our customers in understanding their environment providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks. As a Solutions Consultant you provide technical leadership and expertise and guidance in your customers security transformation journey. You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customers key business imperatives and ensuring value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks. You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem cloud and security operations services that establish PANW as your customers cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact

Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions.
• Your ability to position demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
• Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical operational and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers
• Working closely with Professional Services Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions.
• Demonstrating strong communication skills and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos technical engagements and workshops
• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.
• Orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists Channel Resources Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy
• Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner
• Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating our leadership
• Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events
• (OT) - Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures
• 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 pre-sales 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
• Proficient in English

Additional Information

The Team

Our Solutions Consultant team members work hand-in-hand with large organizations around the world to keep their digital environments protected. We educate inspireand empower our potential clients in their journey to transform their security architectures.

You are empowered with unmatched systems and tools and a team built on joint success. You wont find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isnt committed to your success with everyone pitching 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

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant 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.

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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship: Yes

Remote Work

Yes

Employment Type

Full-time