About the role

  • Provide pre-sales assistance for sales opportunities to customers and partners, including installations, troubleshooting and training of Websense products
  • Refine and research technical requirements of the opportunity
  • Define solution options and articulate the benefits of Websense products
  • Act as an interface between the Sales organization and technical staff to resolve outstanding issues
  • Assist in closing business in regional territories through field visits to major account prospects
  • Perform product demonstrations and presentations at customer and partner sites, company road shows and events
  • Provide reporting and feedback on customer accounts and field activities to Sales, Product Management and Engineering
  • Promote new and innovative approaches to addressing business challenges and problems
  • Maintain a broad-level of knowledge of industry trends and how Websense products add value
  • Understand the customer’s business drivers and how to map these to a customer network platform, including identification of improvement areas in network design

Requirements

  • Strong leadership skills with the ability to prioritize and execute in a methodical and disciplined manner.
  • Set and manage expectations with senior stakeholders and team members
  • Demonstrated ability to make and take responsibility for decisions on major technical issues
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to present to a variety of external audiences, including senior executives
  • Exceptional written communication
  • Ability to understand and articulate both the business benefits (value proposition) and technical advantages of Forcepoint products and solutions
  • Resilience and ability to handle stressful situations effectively while managing several tasks
  • Advanced understanding of internetworking, including new products and solution
  • Excellent knowledge of security solutions and technologies, including; internet security; Linux and routing experience; proxy technologies; data loss prevention solutions; anti-virus, spam and spyware solutions (Gateway and SaaS)
  • Understand and be conversant about Websense, its solutions, product strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
  • Applicants must have the right to work in the location to which you have applied.

Job title

Sales Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Location requirements

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