Security Sales Specialist Bardi

Security Sales Specialist
Bardi
Emilia Romagna, Bardi

Are you passionate about cybersecurity? Do you enjoy working on a high-performing, fast-paced sales team? If so, we are looking for you! The Microsoft Security organization's mission of making the world a safer place has never been more important. As threats become more frequent and sophisticated, we must keep our customers safe through our Security Solutions. The Solution Specialist team within the Microsoft Security organization is at the forefront of this effort, engaging directly with customers to contribute to their success.

As a Security Sales Specialist, you will be a senior solution sales leader, selling Microsoft Security to our largest enterprise customers. You will manage senior-level business relationships, understand customer challenges and priorities, identify security opportunities, build solutions and business cases to close the sales. You will do this with your deep Industry and Security knowledge, technical acumen, and by leading a virtual team of resources across Microsoft and Partner ecosystem. You will spend time on customer-facing activities driving sales conversations, internal meetings for collaboration and sales management, and learning and development. We are looking for a passionate, experienced, and credible Security Specialist with a drive for developing and winning sales opportunities that deliver significant customer value and accelerate their digital transformation journey. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

ResponsibilitiesBe the security expert for your assigned territory. Lead and plan for accounts across territories, prepare business analysis pursuing sales opportunities, and manage the End-to-End Security business. Develop a book of business of sales opportunities, ensuring that sales targets are met or exceeded. Build, own, and manage CISO and other key stakeholders' relationships in your accounts driving awareness and excitement for Microsoft security platform value and influence long-term strategic direction. Understand customer budget, timeline, and buying process. Understand customer cloud and security initiatives, competitive landscape as well as gaps between current and desired security posture. Capture the opportunity of customers' journey to balance the need for security and employee productivity with the right process and visibility. Demo and whiteboard the cloud security solutions and the relevant security architecture. Lead and orchestrate V-Team to drive an end-to-end value selling from discovery to demonstrating and proving business value. Engage security partners to help scale and accelerate the sales cycle while also ensuring a deployment plan is in place for accelerated deployment with partner added value services. Perform ROI and TCO analysis and leverage various commercial offers and programs to build a compelling business case accelerating negotiations and deal closure. Drive to exceed quarterly and yearly revenue targets and other sales goals. Manage sales hygiene via accurate forecasting and deal updates within sales CRM. QualificationsSeveral years technology-related sales or account management experienceOR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND proven years technology-related sales or account management experienceOR Master's Degree in Business Administration (i. e. , MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND a few years technology-related sales or account management experienceProven years solution or services sales experienceCertifications: One or more of the following certifications is a plus: CISSP, CCSP, SC-500, AZ-900Technical passion with good understanding of cloud security - Threat protection (Endpoint security, E-mail security, Incident Response, etc. ), Kill Chain, CNAPP, SIEM, Multi-Cloud Security, Identity and Access managementExperience with competitive Security solutions (e. g. Palo Alto, Splunk, CrowdStrike) is a plusEnglish and Italian - fluent

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