Manager, Solutions Consulting

Palo Alto Networks; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A global cybersecurity company in Johannesburg is seeking a Manager, Technical Solutions to lead their Solutions Consulting teams. This role involves guiding team members, building customer relationships, and ensuring effective solution implementations. The ideal candidate has a background in sales engineering with a focus on security products. The position requires strong communication skills and a quota-driven attitude, along with industry knowledge of cybersecurity trends and solutions. Travel within the region is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience as a pre-sales System Engineer Manager.
• Industry knowledge of security product market trends.
• Experience in selling, designing, implementing solutions like Network Security.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and hire new Solutions Consultants and Domain Consultant.
• Lead and coach teams on successful technical validation efforts.
• Build and maintain relationships with key customers.

Skills

Communication skills

Quota driven attitude

Technical leadership

Job description

Job Description

Your Career

The Manager, Technical Solutions is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineer Manager role, aligning how we lead teams to best serve our customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks.

As our Manager, Technical Solutions, you are the technical leader for your District Solutions Consulting and Domain Consulting teams. You will work closely with the District Sales Manager and, along with your team, build relationships with your customers with the goal of helping them detect and prevent advanced cyberattacks and breaches. Our customers need guidance on what applications to deploy from our platform. Your guidance, expertise, and mentorship of your team will keep them ahead of the latest cyberthreats and stay on the leading edge of prevention.

As the technical leader for your assigned territory, you will guide and develop your team to define innovative technical solutions that secure customers' key business imperatives and maximize the value of their investment with Palo Alto Networks. You will champion our industry leadership in on-premises, cloud, and security operations services, establishing Palo Alto Networks as the preferred cybersecurity partner for your customers. You will also nurture talent within your team and provide valuable feedback to the product management team on new feature requests and product improvements based on insights gained from your customer interaction. Your team will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives and ensuring value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks.

Your Impact

• Recruit and hire new Solutions Consultants and Domain Consultantinto the territory, hiring the best talent in the industry
• Responsible for training, mentoring, and reviewing employees on your team, keeping them engaged and successful in their careers
• Support field Solutions Consultant and Domain Consultantteam in complex evaluations, problem-solving and challenging customer environments
• Leads and coaches team on successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.
• Define, create and monitor individual development plans for your team
• Works closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions.
• Provide effective technical leadership in customer interactions to include sharing security trends and standard methodologies employed by other customers to actively be part of the selling process
• Drive Palo Alto Networks Platformization efforts within your accounts.
• Ensure optimal use of resources and align the required resources to the projects you are handling
• Act as an escalation point to collaborate with pre-sales and post-sales teams for any issues that arise
• Build and maintain relationships with key customers to solidify reference accounts and to assist the account teams with defining plans to drive more business
• Present to customers as our expert in your area at all levels in the customer hierarchy from technician to CIO
• Discuss competitor products in the marketplace and positions ours as the best alternative
• Working with Product Management, Technical Marketing, and R&D to build requirements and product features for our large customers and provide feedback from customers

50-75% travel within the region

Work with your sales counterpart (DSM) to develop a technical strategy that accelerates growth. Identify key verticals, markets, use cases, and solutions to focus on, and devise a comprehensive strategy and engagement model tailored to your region or district.

Qualifications

Your Experience

Experience as a pre-sales System Engineer Manager

Experience as a Senior System Engineer / Specialist

Industry knowledge of security product market trends and directional awareness of our roadmap and technology development efforts, knowledge of competitor offerings and products

Knowledge of how to deliver comprehensive security solutions to Palo Alto Networks customer base

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

Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills

Quota driven attitude focused on client's best solution by being a trusted advisor

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, 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 Solutions Consulting community is driven by the mission to be our customers’ cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting their digital way of life.

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 info, 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.