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Account Director
Overview
Qualys, a leader in cloud cybersecurity solutions, is seeking a motivated individual to join our sales team. In this role, you will be instrumental in driving sales growth by managing existing enterprise-level customer accounts, ensuring renewals, and identifying upsell opportunities. You will collaborate closely with internal teams to deliver exceptional service and contribute to our mission of securing digital transformation for our clients.
Key Responsibilities
- Account Management:Build and maintain strong relationships with enterprise-level customers, ensuring their needs are met and fostering long-term partnerships.
- Business Development:Hunt, develop, and close upsell opportunities within your assigned territory, leveraging outbound efforts and channel partnerships.
- Sales Strategy:Create and execute a comprehensive territory plan to meet and exceed bookings objectives, aligning your efforts with Qualys' growth targets.
- Sales Presentations:Deliver high-level and detailed sales presentations that effectively communicate the value of Qualys' cybersecurity solutions to prospective clients.
- RFI/RFP Management:Respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs, tailoring responses to align with customer requirements and demonstrate Qualys' capabilities.
- Technical Support:Collaborate effectively with our Technical Support Engineers (TSEs) who are responsible for driving successful case outcomes.
- Market Awareness:Stay updated on industry trends, cybersecurity developments, and regulatory changes, enabling you to position Qualys' solutions effectively in the market.
- Conference Attendance:Represent Qualys at conferences and seminars, both virtually and in-person, engaging with potential customers and showcasing our offerings.
- Collaboration:Partner with Sales Engineers, Solution Architects, Sales Leadership, and Marketing teams to align on customer needs and enhance our product offerings, ensuring seamless execution of strategies for customer success.
Qualifications
- Proven experience in account management or sales, preferably in the cybersecurity or technology sector.
- Strong understanding of cloud cybersecurity solutions and recurring revenue models.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated ability to build relationships at all organizational levels.
- Proficient in CRM tools and sales forecasting methodologies.
- Ability to analyze market trends and customer feedback to identify upsell opportunities.
- Self-motivated, results-driven, and capable of working independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
- Need to own the account and effectively manage account support teams.
- Highly organized and able to manage multiple accounts and multiple accounts teams. Need to understand how to keep projects moving.
- Manage quarterly business reviews, executive reviews and product roadmap sessions
- Negotiating and closing contracts
- Maintain regular cadence calls with account teams to review health, strategies, projects and business requirements
- Track account leads and ensure timely response for company SLA's
- Coordinate support and technical teams to resolve product related issues or technical challenges
- Required to preparing sales proposals, coordinating contract requirements and processing orders
- Must be willing to travel
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Qualys is an Equal Opportunity Employer, please see our EEO policy.
Qualys is committed to building an environment characterized by respect for the individual where cultural and ethnic diversity are blended by teamwork into a harmonious work force. Because of this we are firmly committed to equal employment opportunity for all employees.
All qualified applicants shall receive consideration that is free of discrimination or harassment on the grounds of race, color, national origin, ancestry, medical condition, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), marital status, registered domestic partner status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic characteristics and information, age, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
This applies equally to individuals with a physical or mental disability or medical condition.
Qualys offers reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities to the extent the accommodation will enable them to perform the essential functions of the job and will not create an undue hardship. Further information relating to reasonable accommodations is available from the Human Resources Department.
If you request assistance or accommodations, please contact us at HR@Qualys.com
