Senior Sales Engineer
- Sophos
- 6 - 11 years
- Kolkata
- 8 days ago
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Job Description
- The role will require candidates to show deep understanding in identifying customers requirements and developing and articulating solutions to address the following:
- Gain technical closure of sales opportunities from customer and partner
- Deliver Chanel technical enablement to assure Sophos solution competency within channel and distribution
- Develop Channel Partners and MSPs to outlay solutions applicable to enterprise, midmarket and Commercial territories mapping to Sophos cybersecurity platform and services
- Drives sales revenue to meet regional targets
- Advise customers and deliver high-level solution designs and strategy across the entire Sophos product / services range
- Develop technical relationships with people at all levels including operations, architects, managers, and executives where appropriate as defined in the account plan(s)
- Develop and maintain in-depth understanding of industry sectors, changing needs, and key cyber security drivers
- Ensure that Sophos solutions are deployed effectively, by Partners or Sophos Professional Services to ensure customer satisfaction and best customer experience
- Identify and document specific problems at prospects and customers which can be solved through the deployment of a Sophos solution.
- Recognize new business opportunities in assigned account(s) and helps to build and qualify pipeline of opportunities
- Own and complete the technical sales cycle from early opportunity technical qualification up to a technical closure
- Actively participates in account and territory planning, developing and influencing plans, with assigned account managers and channel partners
- Work with aligned channel partners in territory and establish long-term relationships, proactively working with partners in accounts, leveraging their expertise and/or contacts to drive pipeline and opportunity closure
- Deliver technical partner enablement that will actively build and maintain partner capability with Sophos solutions and Certifications
- Present the Sophos vision & technical strategy coherently and consistently to a technical and business audience, within the Sophos Channel partner community
- Identify opportunities to align with partners and propose / validate solutions, allowing channel partners to lead with Sophos solutions and services
- Develop, grow and maintain a network of key channel partner technical contacts
- You must have minimum 6 years of presales experience and excellent technical knowledge within cyber security, endpoint and or networking XDR / EDR, SIEM, SOAR, incident response
- Excellent knowledge and experience with a wide variety of IT technologies and security solutions, working in the IT security business
- Email Flow - Exchange / Domino, Cloud Solutions, AV and Anti-SPAM products
- SOC Operations IT Process Automation / Orchestration, Managed detection and Response
- Knowledge and experience with cyber threat landscape
- Demonstrable experience with Windows, macOS, Linux, routers/switches
- Knowledge of competitive solutions and solutions selling strategies.
- Can work collaboratively with Sales, Marketing, Support, Product management, and be the technical bridge between Sophos and customers, partners or prospects
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with an ability to present to varied audiences, including from operational to GM s and C-Level when appropriate.
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Sales & Business DevelopmentRole Category: BD / Pre SalesRole: Pre Sales EngineerEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: SophosLocation(s): Kolkata
Keyskills: switching cyber security it technologies technical sales presentation skills siem presales mac sales incident response sales engineering marketing endpoint edr microsoft windows linux soar security solutions selling communication skills
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