Sr. Regional Sales Director, UAE

Gigamon; Dubai; On-site; AED 551,000 - 771,000; Full time

Job summary

Gigamon seeks a Sr. Regional Sales Director to cover the UAE region. The role focuses on direct sales, identifying, qualifying and closing opportunities within large enterprise accounts. You will manage the full life cycle and collaborate with product and regional teams to expand Gigamon’s presence.

The ideal candidate brings enterprise sales success in Networking or Security, experience with Salesforce, and a hunter mentality to drive growth in a fast-paced market.

Qualifications

• Proven sales success in large enterprise accounts.
• Experience selling in Networking or Network Security space.
• Forecasting and pipeline management experience.
• Familiarity with channel partner ecosystems within the region.
• Technical understanding of Networking and security landscape is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Owns sales within UAE territory and named accounts to meet and exceed quota.
• Manages full sales cycle from lead to closure with strategic account planning.
• Maintains accurate customer data in SalesForce and tracks opportunities.
• Develops business strategies and solutions for complex customer problems.
• Collaborates with Product Managers and cross-functional teams to tailor offerings for the region.
• Represent the sales group in cross-functional meetings and client visits.
• Provides timely market feedback and competitive intelligence to the organization.

Skills

Enterprise sales

SalesForce

Networking know-how

Security landscape

Channel partners

Consultative selling

Tools

SalesForce

Job description

At Gigamon, our purpose is to protect the hybrid networks and data of the largest, most complex organizations on the planet. Certified as a Great Place to Work, we offer a deep observability pipeline that efficiently delivers network-derived intelligence to cloud, security, and observability tools. This helps our customers to eliminate security blind spots, optimize network traffic, and dramatically reduce tool cost and complexity, enabling them to better secure and manage their hybrid cloud infrastructure. Gigamon has served more than 4,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of Fortune 100 enterprises, 9 of the 10 largest mobile network providers, and hundreds of governments and educational organizations.

Gigamon seeks a motivated individual to fill the position of Sr. Regional Sales Director (a Sr. Account Executive / Individual Contributor role) to cover the UAE region. As a direct sales position, you will identify, qualify and capture sales opportunities that will align Gigamon strategically. In this role, you will also command and manage all the moving parts through the full life cycle to closure. We are searching for an entrepreneurial, hunter and self-starter who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, completing multiple complex tasks simultaneously, who can use his or her direct sales talent to expand adoption of Gigamon capabilities. Duties also include development of business strategies and solutions for complex and multi‑faceted customer problems, and internally provide advice to support the overall growth strategy for driving Gigamon's business activities in the region.

What you'll do:

• Responsible for the sales of company's products within an assigned geographic territory and within an assigned group of named accounts within the region. Achieves sales budget by the growth of existing accounts and the development of new accounts.
• Maintains database of customers. Enters interactions with customers in SalesForce database.
• Uses available resources to develop effective sales calls. These resources include opportunities identified by previous sales calls, invoices, Tech Service cases, webinar attendees and sample requests.
• Sells new and existing products, discovers new opportunities, and secures incremental business.
• Explores, identifies, and communicates potential opportunities with the Regional Business Managers and Product Managers.
• Consistently performs effective sales calls throughout the assigned territory and closes new business opportunities.
• Attends trade and vendor shows and meetings as required.
• Provides timely communication and follow‑up to customers, consistently meets the customers' expectations.
• Provide pertinent market and competitive information to the organization.
• In collaboration with Product Managers, develops short and long‑range strategies for product expansion; assesses potential application of the company products to meet customer needs and prepares detailed product specifications for the development, implementation, and customization of customer solutions.
• Collaborates with Product Managers on presentations, product demonstrations, and on‑site customer visits.
• Represents Sales group on cross‑functional team interfacing with R&D, production, and manufacturing to develop new products or enhance existing products or product lines.
• Researches and analyzes the territories and the company's markets, competition and product mix; makes presentations on new and existing products to current and potential customers.
• Provides innovative problem‑solving approaches to enhance organizational capabilities; uses peer network to expand technical and sales capabilities and identify new sales opportunities.
• Devises new approaches to problems encountered, shares approach with Regional Business Managers.
• Uses a wide application of complex principles, theories and concepts in the specific field.
• Creates opportunities to enhance technical methodology or content through expansion of existing or development of new efforts.
• Track record of success YoY attainment of quota.
• Other duties as assigned.

What you've done:

• Advanced level of specialized knowledge, with record of sales success; expert in the field.
• Experience of selling in the Networking or/and Network Security space.
• Large enterprise accounts experience.
• Experience with SalesForce. Disciplined around forecasting.
• Channel partner landscape knowledge.
• Technical understanding of Networking and security landscape is a plus.

Who you are:

• Excellent consultative, solution selling skills to all levels within organizations.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills a must.
• Inspiring leadership skills.
• Passion and high energy level should be part of your DNA.
• Reside in region, track record of relationships with local major Service Providers and channel partners in the region.
• Team player.