The connected Human Risk Management platform
Senior Sales Engineer
Location
Italy
Posted
60 days ago
Salary
€104K - €156K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Sales Engineer
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• Providing technical advice and support to sales opportunities • Engaging with technical contacts in customer and reseller partner organizations • Conducting product demonstrations and presentations to senior customer contacts • Writing formal RFP response documents and preparing strategic implementation plans • Supporting more complex solutions and overseeing implementation and success of pre-sales proof-of-concepts
Job Requirements
- Experience in a technical and/or sales engineering role
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Familiarity with networking and security technologies and services
- Hands-on technical knowledge across relevant cybersecurity domains (email security, insider risk/DLP, security awareness, endpoint, identity)
- Understanding of spam, viruses and email security and Internet based threats
- Knowledge of email archiving solutions and archiving business drivers
- An understanding of email management and security/archiving solutions
- Experience with the design, management and maintenance of typical collaboration platforms including Microsoft 365
- Experience in consultative selling of complex services
- Experience with SaaS based solutions
- Flexible approach and willingness to learn new skills and disciplines
- Experience of operating in an indirect sales environment is beneficial
Benefits
- Incentive plans
- Additional benefits in accordance with company policy and local regulations
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