District Manager

NetApp; Schiphol; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NetApp seeks a District Manager for the Netherlands to lead a high‑performing sales team, own revenue accountability, and craft territory strategies that accelerate adoption of NetApp's data infrastructure portfolio.

Based in Schiphol‑Rijk, you will travel to engage with customers and partners across the Netherlands, collaborating with Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, Marketing and Partners to drive measurable business outcomes and transformational growth.

Qualifications

• Experience selling complex technology solutions using consultative and value-based sales methods.
• Ability to build executive-level relationships and influence decision-makers.
• Strong forecasting, pipeline management, and business planning.
• Experience leading sales teams (direct or matrixed) for 5+ years.
• Proven track record of growing revenue and achieving targets.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a team of sales professionals to meet revenue objectives.
• Drive revenue growth across the territory by pursuing new and expanding accounts.
• Build executive relationships with customers, partners, and stakeholders.
• Oversee pipeline generation and accurate forecasts using MEDDICC.
• Collaborate with Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, Marketing and Partners to deliver outcomes.

Skills

Enterprise technology sales

Team leadership

Strategic planning

Forecasting and pipeline

Executive relationships

MEDDICC

Job description

Job Title: District Manager - Netherlands

Location: Schiphol-Rijk, North Holland, Netherlands

Job ID: 136169

Own Every Moment at NetApp

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure - delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

Job Summary

As a District Manager in the Netherlands, you will hold a highly visible leadership role that combines people leadership, strategic planning, customer engagement, and revenue accountability. Your primary responsibility will be to lead and inspire a high-performing team of sales professionals

In this role, you will be crucial for driving NetApp's growth across the defined territory of the Netherlands. You will leverage your experience in enterprise technology sales to develop and execute territory strategies that accelerate customer adoption of NetApp's intelligent data infrastructure portfolio.

Key aspects of this role include:

• Maximizing revenue by coaching your teams on developing new opportunities, managing the pipeline, and fostering relationships with customers and partners.
• A focus on landing new accounts, as well as upselling and cross-selling to expand the share-of-wallet within existing accounts.
• Working closely with customers, partners, and cross-functional teams to help organizations modernize their data strategies and achieve measurable business outcomes.
• Residing within the territory and being able to travel regularly to engage with your team, customers, and partners.

You will be instrumental in shaping market strategy, inspiring your teams, and driving transformational outcomes for both customers and NetApp.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of sales professionals to achieve and exceed revenue objectives. This involves fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
• Drive revenue growth across the defined territory, prioritizing hunting new "land" accounts and increasing "share-of-wallet" in existing "expand" accounts through upselling and cross-selling.
• Build strong executive-level relationships with customers, partners, and key stakeholders.
• Drive pipeline generation, opportunity progression, forecast accuracy, and sales execution excellence, including owning and leading the delivery of accurate forecasts and sales stage progression through disciplined use of MEDDICC by all team members.
• Collaborate effectively with Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Success, Marketing, and Partner teams to deliver successful customer outcomes. You will act as a district sales orchestrator, engaging the right experts at the right time.
• Drive a high-performance culture leveraging, providing consistent and actionable feedback, and effectively managing underperforming team members while recruiting high-performing talent.

Job Requirements

• Exceptional communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and develop high-performing sales teams.
• Experience selling complex technology solutions through consultative and value-based sales methodologies.
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT infrastructure, AI, cloud, data management, and storage technologies.
• Proven ability to build executive-level relationships and influence decision-makers.
• Strong forecasting, pipeline management, and business planning capabilities.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Product Management, Professional Services, and Engineering organizations.
• Strategic thinker with a results-oriented mindset and a passion for driving business growth.
• Experience working with channel partners and ecosystem relationships is highly desirable.
• 8+ years of enterprise technology sales experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading direct or matrixed sales teams.
• Demonstrated success in growing revenue, exceeding sales targets, and leading high-performing organizations.
• Experience developing and executing strategic territory plans and business growth initiatives.

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You’ll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

AI Disclosure

For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support - rather than replace - human decision-making.