Regional Sales Manager

OPSWAT; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

OPSWAT in Cape Town is looking for a Regional Sales Manager to drive revenue and growth through strategic account planning. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years of experience in technology sales, with a successful track record in closing complex solutions. Responsibilities include developing sales strategies, targeting key verticals, and maintaining records in Salesforce CRM. The role demands excellent negotiation skills and the ability to communicate technical value propositions effectively, as well as a commitment to ethical conduct.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years experience selling technology products and solutions.
• Proven track record in complex solutions sales to enterprise customers.
• Strong knowledge of security threats and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Strategically target business opportunities in key verticals.
• Develop and execute sales strategies to meet quotas.
• Communicate value propositions tailored to client needs.
• Maintain detailed account information in Salesforce CRM.
• Forecast and report revenue projections accurately.

Skills

Negotiation skills

Presentation skills

Sales strategy development

Client-centric selling

Account management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Salesforce CRM

Job description

OPSWAT, a global leader in IT, OT, and ics critical infrastructure cybersecurity, delivers an end-to-end platform that gives public and private sector organizations and enterprises the critical advantage needed to protect their complex networks, secure their devices, and ensure compliance. Over the last 20 years our commitment to innovative technology has earned the trust of more than 1,700 organizations, governments, and institutions globally, solidifying our role in protecting the world’s critical infrastructure and securing our way of life.

The Position

The Regional Sales Manager is a significant driver of company revenue and growth. Your responsibilities will include: learning the OPSWAT technology; developing and implementation of a strategic account plans targeting deployments of our Cybersecurity platforms and solutions. You will build the right relationships inside a target account, know how to leverage your company resources to the fullest, and negotiate and close new business. The ideal candidate will have previous work experience as a member of a corporate sales team and a career track record of exceeding multi-million-dollar sales quotas. Candidates selling into critical infrastructure and data diode sales experience are given a preference.

What You Will be Doing

• Strategically target business opportunities that leverage high value use cases, in key verticals.
• Develop and execute sales strategies and tactics to sell OPSWAT products, solutions, and services to exceed your sales quotas.
• Communicate value propositions to clients that speak intimately to their needs and requirements.
• Utilize client-centric, solutions-oriented selling strategies and hunter’s mentality to identify, qualify, convert enterprise sales.
• Effectively articulate financial ROI/TCO value, and build value throughout the negotiation process.
• Maintain extensive account and opportunity detail in Salesforce CRM, including account win plans, customer touch points, sales inhibitors, etc.
• Forecast and report revenue projections accurately to management.
• Overachieve on annual quota, measured quarterly.

What We Need from You

• A minimum of 5 years successfully selling technology products and solutions to business.
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a technical discipline or equivalent experience.
• A successful track record selling complex-solutions directly to enterprise customers and through Channel/SI Partners.
• You’re persuasive, and have excellent negotiation and presentation skills. You can effectively communicate with both technology-oriented and senior business executives at the “C” level, and are comfortable articulating the technical and business value of the OPSWAT platforms.
• Your work is a mix of strategic and proactive account activity, and you have a demonstrated ability of uncovering, qualifying, developing, and closing new accounts.
• Ability to set goals, prioritize tasks, and achieve success with minimal oversight in a sometimes ambiguous work environment.
• You keep your pipeline accurate and your forecast updated for management.
• Possess, at minimum, a fundamental understanding of security threats, solutions, and security tools.
• Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction.
• You’re highly competitive, ramp quickly, are extremely adaptive, and pride yourself on exceeding sales goals.
• You are able to travel as necessary to your assigned accounts, and to Company meetings.
• Highly ethical and professional personal conduct.

OPSWAT is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an environment where equal employment opportunities are extended to all employees and applicants, free of discrimination and harassment of any type. All employment decisions are based on individual qualifications, job requirements, and business needs without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.