Job Description Your Career The Strategic Account Manager is a significant driver of company revenue and growth. As an experienced and dynamic sales professional, you're responsible for leading and driving sales engagements. You're motivated by the desire to solve critical challenges facing our customer's secure environment, so you're prepared to connect them with a solution for every stage of threat prevention. You'll be responsible for meeting and exceeding your quota by crafting and implementing strategic territory plans targeting deployments of the Palo Alto Networks Next Generation Security Platform. This is a unique opportunity for a closer with a go–getter mentality to win business and market share by actively displacing competing technologies. Oh, and did we say you love to sell? Because selling is what gets you out of bed every morning. This is not just a career - it's a meaningful challenge that impacts our lives in the digital age. Our solutions are best–in–breed and customers need a trusted cybersecurity partner who can create a truly zero trust based security architecture. Our customers are looking to us to create critical transformations and our portfolio of solutions will help us do that. Your Impact You will drive and orchestrate complex sales cycles and work with our internal partners and teams to best serve the customer Your consultative selling experience will identify business challenges and create solutions for prospects and our customers Understand the competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectively position the portfolio of Palo Alto Networks solutions Create clear goals and complete accurate forecasting through developing a detailed territory plan Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for that specific account Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services Travel as necessary within your territory, and to company–wide meetings