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Regional Sales Manager - Digital Native (French Tech 120)

Boulogne-Billancourt, Île-de-France Region, France Sales Ref ID: JR-016975
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Overview

Your next great move.

If you're passionate about staying ahead of the curve in cybersecurity and thrive on helping organizations safeguard their most valuable digital assets, an Account Executive role at Palo Alto Networks could be your next great move. We're looking for individuals who are passionate about advanced security solutions and enjoy tailoring them to meet complex challenges. We're always recruiting the best and brightest who thrive on helping customers navigate the ever-changing security landscape and have the ability to make the most complex challenges attainable. You'll partner closely with Solutions Consultants to evangelize the Palo Alto Networks platform and highlight the benefits it can provide our customers, helping them secure their most critical digital assets. At Palo Alto Networks, you'll find strong career growth, collaboration with top talent, and a mission-driven environment focused on securing our digital future.

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What it takes to be successful.

What makes a successful Regional Sales Manager - Digital Native (French Tech 120) at Palo Alto Networks? Check out the top traits we’re looking for and see if you have the right mix.

  • Influences
  • Focuses on the Customer
  • Drives Results
  • Technical Acumen
  • Sales Hygiene
  • Demonstrates Resilience

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Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

As a Regional Sales Manager, you will partner with Cloud Native organizations to secure their entire digital experience by solving critical challenges. You will lead and drive sales engagements for a comprehensive portfolio of security solutions, acting as a significant driver of company revenue and growth. This role leverages a solutions-focused sales environment to connect clients with a solution for every stage of threat prevention.

Key Responsibilities

  • Sell the company's products and solutions through channel partners and by interacting directly with customers in an assigned region.

  • Utilize consultative selling experience to identify business challenges and create solutions for prospects and customers.

  • Understand the competitive landscape and customer needs to effectively position the portfolio of solutions.

  • Create clear goals and complete accurate forecasting by developing a detailed territory plan.

  • Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for that specific account.

  • Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect the company's products and services.

  • Travel as necessary within your territory and to company-wide meetings.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience in a quota-carrying, enterprise software or cybersecurity sales role.

  • Proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding sales targets.

  • Demonstrated experience selling complex technical solutions to C-level stakeholders.

  • Strong understanding of territory management and sales cycle forecasting.

  • Business fluency in both English and French.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security industry.

  • Experience cultivating relationships with channel partners to bring a channel-centric go-to-market approach.

  • Technical aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems.

  • Ability to take a holistic approach to problem solving by considering complex interrelationships and outcomes.

  • Excellent time management skills, with the ability to work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
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It's our mission.

We are the global cybersecurity leader, united in our mission to protect our digital way of life.

  • Determined to make a difference.
  • Shaping the future of cybersecurity.
  • Your unique perspective is valued.

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Hear from our people.

“For anyone considering joining our sales organization, know this: if you’re competitive, collaborative, and energized by solving real problems for real people, Palo Alto Networks is the place to build your career. You’ll work with industry-leading technology, be surrounded by teammates who genuinely want to win together, and you’ll have the opportunity to make an impact that extends far beyond a quota - you’ll help protect our digital way of life.”

-Abbey, Territory Sales Manager

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