Commercial Sales Manager

Your Career

Our Commercial Sales Team is an important driver of company revenue and growth. As an experienced and dynamic sales professional, you will be responsible for leading and driving sales engagements into assigned commercial accounts. In this role, you are 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.

Palo Alto Networks is leading the charge in platformization, offering best-in-breed solutions that enable customers to build a truly zero-trust security architecture and navigate critical transformations. To ensure our sales team is equipped to guide customers, we've developed FLIGHT, an immersive onboarding program. Flight blends virtual and in-person learning at our headquarters, where new sales hires will participate in dynamic cohorts, fully dedicated to their training without customer distractions. This focused approach ensures they emerge as well-prepared sales professionals, ready to help customers leverage our comprehensive portfolio.

Your Impact

• Prospect and sell into assigned commercial accounts, create and execute a robust sales strategy to penetrate into new accounts and expand into existing accounts
• Be the primary sales driver, managing a sales pipeline to deliver to quarterly/annual quota
• Strong discipline around managing sales stages and SFDC hygiene
• Deliver accurate weekly and quarterly forecast
• Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
• Communicate value propositions to clients and partners that speak intimately to their needs and requirements
• Generate velocity to deliver a predictable book of business and drive forecast accuracy utilizing channel ecosystem
• Develop and deploy marketing activities and plans to end users through our channel sales partners
• Engage a programmatic approach to demand, to generate, develop, and expand your territory
• Work collaboratively with all cross-functional resources to achieve your quota - inside sales, channel systems engineering, field marketing, cybersecurity sales specialists, the services team, sales ops (including deal desk and the response team), and others