Solution Consultant - Public Sector

Palo Alto Networks; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Solutions Consultant to drive innovative cybersecurity solutions. In this dynamic role, you will leverage your technical expertise to guide customers through their zero trust journey, ensuring they achieve their security objectives. With a focus on building strong relationships and delivering tailored solutions, you will play a crucial part in enhancing customer satisfaction and driving business growth. This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative environment, where your contributions will be valued and recognized. If you're passionate about cybersecurity and eager to make a significant impact, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering cybersecurity solutions and influencing business initiatives.
• Strong communication skills for effective presentations and demos.

Responsibilities

• Define technical solutions for customers' zero trust journey.
• Meet sales quotas through strategic technical account plans.

Skills

Data Networking

Cybersecurity Solutions

Technical Presentations

SaaS/SASE/Cloud Management

Sales Strategy

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

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Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission:

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

Job Description

Your Career

As a Solutions Consultant, you provide technical expertise and guidance in your customer’s zero trust journey. You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives. You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem, cloud, and security services that establish PANW as your customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact

Role

Curiosity is core to the SC 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
• Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers
• Planning and building compelling technical and business-focused solutions which drive adoption and growth after the initial sale and across the portfolio
• Demonstrating strong communication skills and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
• Orchestrating supporting resources 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 differentiate our leadership
• Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to customer success while actively participating within the SC community and at industry events
  
  

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Understanding of data networking
• 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 selling, implementing, or managing SaaS/SASE/cloud/managed/on-prem offerings is a plus
• 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 is preferred
• Public Sector experience preferred, but not required
  
  

Additional Information

The Team

Our SC 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 security.

You are empowered with unmatched systems and tools and a team built on joint success. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. Our SC community is driven by the mission to be our customers’ cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting their digital way of life.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, 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 [e-mail].

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.

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 [e-mail].

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Computer and Network Security

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