Account Manager, Commercial Sales, CEE (Romanian Speaking)

Proofpoint; Reading; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Proofpoint, a leading cybersecurity company, is seeking a Commercial Account Manager to develop business in the CEE region. This role involves building relationships with organizations, managing sales strategies, and leveraging internal resources to expand the customer base. Ideal candidates will have a strong sales background, excellent communication skills, and the ability to engage at the executive level.

Benefits

Supportive leadership

Inclusive culture

Career development programs

Qualifications

• Proven track record of over-achieving targets.
• Experience in selling SaaS solutions to SME and Mid Enterprise markets.
• Fluent in English & Romanian.

Responsibilities

• Establish influential business relationships at the executive level.
• Collaborate with Sales Engineers for product demonstrations.
• Manage a portfolio of focus accounts.

Skills

Communication

Sales Strategy

Relationship Building

Negotiation

Detail Orientation

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

The Role

We are seeking a tenacious, creative and highly motivated Commercial Account Manager to further develop an assigned region in CEE. You will be tasked with converting prospects into sales by differentiating from the competition and working with our channel partners to build and grow a joint Proofpoint business. The role will demand interaction with organisations from SME to large Enterprise (dependent on region), typically up to CISO level, as well as with technical staff within the security and IT organisation. You will also work closely with the Sales Engineer team, as well as with partners and leverage the power of corporate resources within your account base.

You will manage a portfolio of nominated focus accounts, encompassing a mix of white-space and existing customers. Selling the full Proofpoint Platform, while leveraging all internal resources and our ecosystem of partners to enable continued growth of your account portfolio. In this role you will be able to expand the Proofpoint footprint, ensuring your customers are effectively protected from advanced threats and targeted attacks by our award winning

Your day-to-day

• Establish influential business relationships at the executive level within organisations between 750 to 2,500 users (cross-vertical focus)

• Focus on both hunting for introducing them to the full breadth of our security, compliance and information protection platform.

• Articulate and promote the company’s value proposition and services to become a trusted advisor within your customer base

• Collaborate with Sales Engineers to organise and deliver compelling and flawless product demonstrations and Proof-of-Concepts (POCs) where you’re able to articulate value and differentiation

• Leverage all internal resources, including aligned System Engineers to prepare action-oriented account strategies and plans. Partner with the Customer Success organisation, contributing to Customer Business Reviews

• Partner with the channel ecosystem to gain access into new accounts

• Deliver operational excellence, to include forecast accuracy and pipeline generation progression

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Proofpoint’s competitive positioning in the marketplace

What You Bring to The Team

• Proven track record of over-achieving targets, and capacity to leverage channel partnerships.

• Experienced technology sales professional, ideally you will have sold SaaS solutions to the SME and Mid Enterprise markets in the CEE region.

• Growth mindset, desire to continue learning and developing, responds positively to coaching

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and be able to clearly and effectively articulate Proofpoint’s value.

• Relentless attention to detail and never-give-up attitude with a high level of activity, i.e., customer and partner meetings emphasizing executive value selling (CISO, CIO, CMO, etc.)

• Ability to establish business relationships at the executive level, and ability to become a trusted client advisor

• Experience of closing complex opportunities in the range of $100k+

• Proven ability to develop a new business pipeline and accurately forecast

• Ability to coordinate multiple resources to execute complex sales strategies.

• Ideally you will be familiar with a formal sales playbook methodology e.g. MEDDIC, Challenger, TAS, Command of the Message.

• Preferably you’ll have experience of using Salesforce (or equivalent CRM tool)
• Fluent in English & Romanian language skill is essential. Any additional languages are a plus.

Why Proofpoint

• Supportive leadership; an inclusive and employee centric culture

• Award winning and market leading technology

• We invest in our sales teams, and your career, through world-class leadership & enablement programs

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!