Hybrid Sales Engineering Manager, Benelux – Nordics

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About the role

  • Partner closely with the Regional Sales leader to build a strategy for growth and execute on it
  • Accountability of all technical sales and satisfaction activities in the region, including formulating strategies to penetrate target accounts and expanding existing customers
  • Highly engaged with customers, including evangelizing the Proofpoint vision at all levels, from technical to C-suite executives
  • Attract, hire and retain top talent to support our rapid growth, including developing and mentoring team members to help them achieve their career goals, ideally here at Proofpoint
  • Coach, enable, and develop a team of elite Sales Engineers in the key areas of Product and Technical Expertise, Owning the Technical Sales Process, Valued Solutions that Deliver Outcomes and behaving as a Trusted Advisor
  • Foster a culture of continual learning, information sharing and collaboration amongst the team to keep all team members current on the latest innovations and build wisdom from recent customer engagements
  • Actively collaborate with key internal stakeholders such as product, channel, customer success, marketing, services and support to build pipeline and ensure customer loyalty
  • Engage and sponsor key local channel partners that support your business
  • Encourage, initiate and execute local initiatives to grow the business
  • The role is highly customer and partner facing and will require ~50% travel within the region

Requirements

  • Leadership & initiative – a motivated self-starter brimming with ideas, with the discipline and drive to execute on them to yield the desired outcomes
  • A mature technically astute but business centric engineer with a proven ability to command a room, guide complex technical and business conversations with C-suite executives, as well as technical staff
  • A commercially savvy technical sales leader who can partner effectively with sales leadership to develop and grow the business
  • Proven experience of managing sales engineering teams, ideally in the cyber-security industry based on extensive previous experience as a sales engineer
  • Track record of mentoring and developing team members and guiding them to success
  • A strong collaborator with internal and external stakeholders, with a willingness to actively engage in discovering opportunities and problem solving at a technical level
  • Ability to thrive in a fast paced, high energy sales environment
  • Degree in Computer Science preferred or equivalent IT experience
  • An excellent communicator and presenter with fluency in English and either Swedish, Danish or Dutch

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Learning & Development: We are committed to the growth and development of our team members, offering a range of programs including leadership and professional development workshops, stretch project assignments, and mentoring opportunities to help employees reach their full potential.
  • Flexible work environment: [Remote options, hybrid schedules, flexible hours, etc.]
  • Annual wellness and community outreach days
  • Always on recognition for your contributions
  • Global collaboration and networking opportunities

Job title

Sales Engineering Manager, Benelux – Nordics

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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