Regional Sales Manager
About the role
Regional Sales Manager for Aqua Security, a remote role (based in select US states) focused on hunting new business, managing full sales cycle, leveraging internal resources, and achieving pipeline and revenue targets in a fast-growing cloud-native security company.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute a dynamic personal program, with Sales Development Rep support, to generate new business pipeline consistent with Aqua’s ideal customer profiles and unique strengths.
- Leverage modern tools (e.g. AI) as an accelerant to all pipeline generation, relationship and customer development.
- Develop enterprise-grade Pipeline and convert to wins through Aqua’s proven demand creation program.
- Manage the full sales cycle for customer base including new customer acquisition, and existing accounts within territory.
- Elevate your and Aqua’s relationship position within target and existing accounts to the executive level and economic buyer.
- Manage pipeline and accurately deliver weekly/monthly/quarterly forecasts for assigned territory.
- Follow-up on all trade show, demo requests and leads within assigned account base.
- Prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced team environment.
- Turn solution inquiries into sales and up-sell opportunities
- Record gathered information into Aqua’s CRM (Salesforce) while advancing customers along the sales cycle.
- Maintain professionalism and proper etiquette through all forms of communication both internal and external.
- Inform management of any pertinent customer concerns/issues and escalate as required.
- Manage and prepare customer proposals and RFP/RFQ/Solicitations.
Qualifications
- 5-10+ years of prior strategic account sales experience within Security Solutions, DevOps or the Cloud arena.
- Strong relationships across relevant Security Channel Partners
- Demonstrated success in closing complex six-figure deals with large key Strategic Account customers with a high technical aptitude.
- Proven success and strong ability to build partnerships with C-Level Executives in target prospects and vertical markets (e.g. Financial Services, Retail, Telecom, Healthcare)
- Track record of success in consistently achieving multi-million-dollar quota and the ability to deliver and close sales of complex services and solutions in a competitive environment.
- Demonstrated success in strategic account planning.
- Ability to leverage modern tools (e.g. AI) as an accelerant to all pipeline generation, relationship and customer development.
- Strong Project Management skills and ability to cross-functionally lead an internal account project team.
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills, with a positive, self-starter attitude.
- Organized and detail oriented with excellent follow-up skills.
- Collaborative individual with the ability to work independently and prioritize tasks.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- Completion of a formal sales training program is preferred.
- Knowledge of Cloud and SaaS offerings is required.
- Ability to travel at least 25% of the time is required.
- Ability to conduct business over the phone involving prospecting, selling, and servicing new and existing customers
- Prior experience with Salesforce is highly desired.
Skills
About Aqua Security
Protect What Runs in the Cloud
Aqua Security is the pioneer in securing containerized cloud native applications from development to production. Aqua's full lifecycle solution prevents attacks by enforcing pre-deployment hygiene and mitigates attacks in real time in production, reducing mean time to repair and overall business risk. The Aqua Platform, a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), integrates security from Code to Cloud, combining the power of agent and agentless technology into a single solution. With enterprise scale that doesn’t slow development pipelines, Aqua secures your future in the cloud. Founded in 2015, Aqua is headquartered in Boston, MA and Ramat Gan, IL protecting over 500 of the world’s largest enterprises.
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