Area Sales Director

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Area Sales Director at Cato Networks offers leadership of Swiss revenue growth for a fast-growing cloud networking and security pioneer. You will lead a team of Sales Directors, own the full sales cycle, forecast and pipeline management, and collaborate with Presales, Ops, Product and Customer Success to close complex, high-value wins and drive seven-digit revenue. The role requires a tenured hunter with 10+ years, B2B networking or security, enterprise C-level and technical buyer experience, and a proven quota attainment track record and channel enablement; startup and cloud selling experience are advantages. To apply, tailor your resume to quantify leadership outcomes, highlight regional experience, provide concrete examples of forecast accuracy and negotiations, and show a collaborative, hands-on approach. Also emphasize willingness to work in a hybrid remote setup from Zurich and readiness to hire, coach, and scale a sales team.

As an Area Sales Director, you will take sales responsibility for generating all revenue from the Swiss region in a period of dramatic and expected growth to significant seven-digit revenue numbers. You will personally close numerous high-value new customer wins in the market and lead a team of Sales Directors responsible for new business quota attainment in their assigned territories. As a member of an ambitious global sales organization seeking category leadership, you will be a close collaborator and a highly active and resilient member of the team driving the business forward.

The role will work remotely from a home office and report to AVP CEMEA.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of Sales Directors in achieving individual and team quota
• Effectively run and manage all aspects of the sales cycle, quote, negotiate, and assist sales reps in closing complex transactions through the development of executive-level relationships with key prospects
• Manage daily and weekly activities, pipelines, forecasts and closed deals to ensure above-quota results based on successful pipeline management
• Coordinate and manage weekly and monthly one-on-one and team-wide pipeline reviews, meetings, mentoring and training sessions to ensure ongoing improvement and best practice sharing
• Develop and implement corporate objectives scorecards with management to maintain the productivity standard of the sales team
• Attract, hire, coach, on-board and retain top sales talent
• Be a change agent within Cato Networks, help define new models and processes to grow our business
• Maintain highly collaborative relationships with the Presales, Operations, Product, and Customer Success teams
• Make our customers successful!

Requirements:

• Senior sales experience with strong leadership and management track record, a hands-on world-class sales executive
• A Hunter with over 10 years of field and remote sales experience with consistent over-achievement of quotas
• Networking and/or Security solutions B2B sales experience in a highly competitive market
• Enterprise experience selling to C-Level and Technical buyers
• A minimum of 2 years experience managing an individual contributor sales team
• Channel recruitment and enablement experience with demonstrable track record of channel sales success
• Demonstrated ability to accurately forecast sales results
• Strong skill set in contract negotiations
• Ability to work in a rapidly expanding, fast paced environment
• Collaborative approach and demonstrable success in highly team-oriented sales organizations with great communication skills
• Willingness to work hard to make exceptional success happen
• Start-up experience is an advantage
• Experience in selling cloud-based solutions is an advantage

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