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Proofpoint

Strategic Account Manager

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Paris, France

Full Time

23-04-2025

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Job Specifications

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

The Role

We are seeking a proactive, creative, and tenacious Senior Enterprise Sales Professional to drive new cyber security business across all vertical markets within an assigned account set. This will be predominately be white space environment.

This role will demand interaction with large-scale enterprises at the CIO, IT Director and CISO level, as well as with technical staff within the security and IT organisation.

Responsibilities include the ability to establish strong business relationships at the executive level, advanced solution selling capabilities, conducting sales presentations, coordinating multiple resources within an account, while consistently and successfully closing business for Proofpoint.

Your day-to-day

Prospect new and existing accounts, generate interest, qualify, cultivate relationships and successfully develop and close new business
Drive and orchestrate large complex sales cycle and work with our partners and internal teams to best serve the customer
Develop an overall account strategy leading to the deployment of a well-executed selling effort into the assigned accounts
Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Proofpoint products and services
Convert prospects into sales by differentiating from the competition
Collaborate with Systems Engineers to organise and deliver compelling and flawless product demonstrations
Partner with the channel to gain access into new accounts
Deliver strong operational excellence, to include forecast accuracy, SFDC pipeline development,

What You Bring To The Team

Proven track record of meeting and exceeding targets within the cybersecurity or IT Infrastructure marketplace is a must
Proven ability to articulate a large portfolio of products – solutions and services
Ability to develop relationship at the C-level
Business acumen, to understand the cyber security threat landscape, and become the trusted advisor of the CISO
Able to effectively collaborate work with channel partners
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and be able to clearly and effectively articulate Proofpoint’s value
Self-starter with the ability to work independently or in a team environment
Ability to use SFDC, pricing and other on-line tools effectively
Existing relationships within similar markets is preferred
In addition to fluency in French, fluency in English is also required

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint!

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

About the Company

We provide the most effective cybersecurity and compliance solutions to protect people on every channel including email, the web, the cloud, and social media. Know more

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