Start-Up Solutions Consultant (Presales) at Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Start-Up Solutions Consultant (Presales)

Ref ID: JR-011002
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment type: Full-time
Category: Systems Engineering
Level: Mid-Senior
Travel: Yes (frequent)

Overview
Your next great move:

• If you're passionate about staying ahead of the curve in cybersecurity and thrive on helping organizations safeguard their most valuable digital assets, a Solutions Consulting role at Palo Alto Networks could be your next great move.
• We're looking for individuals who are passionate about advanced security solutions and enjoy tailoring them to meet complex challenges.
• We're always recruiting the best and brightest who thrive on helping customers navigate the ever-changing security landscape and have the ability to make the most complex challenges attainable.
• You'll partner closely with Account Executives to evangelize the Palo Alto Networks platform and highlight the benefits it can provide our customers, helping them secure their most critical digital assets.
• At Palo Alto Networks, you'll find strong career growth, collaboration with top talent, and a mission-driven environment focused on securing our digital future.

Job Detail
Your Career:

• The Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role, aligning how we best serve our customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks. 
• As a Solutions Consultant you provide technical leadership and expertise and guidance in your customer’s security transformation journey. 
• You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives and ensuring value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks. 
• You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem, cloud, and security operations services that establish PANW as your customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact

• Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:
• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions.
• Your ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
• Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers
• Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions.
• Demonstrating strong communication skills and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.
• Orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy
• Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner
• Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating our leadership 
• Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events
• (OT) - Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap.

The Team

• Our Solutions Consultant team members work hand-in-hand with large organizations around the world to keep their digital environments protected. We educate, inspire,and empower our potential clients in their journey to transform their security architectures. 
• You are empowered with unmatched systems and tools and a team built on joint success. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development.
• Our Solutions Consulting community is driven by the mission to be our customers’ cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting their digital way of life. 

Your Experience 

• Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures
• Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives
• Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role; prior experience in a pre-sales role is ideal
• Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements 
• Experience in selling, designing, implementing, or managing one or more of the following solutions: Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
• Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions
• Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred
• Proficient in English language skills

Success Profile
What it takes to be successful.

• What makes a successful Solutions Consultant at Palo Alto Networks? Check out the top traits we’re looking for and see if you have the right mix:
  • Technical Acumen
  • Focuses on the Customer
  • Drives Results
  • Demonstrates Resilience
  • Builds Trust
  • Adapts.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online