Enterprise Account Manager

**Role Summary**
- The Enterprise Account Manager will directly sell to and manage relationships with named end user accounts of 1001+ users, fulfilling through the channel. You will actively generate and pursue leads and opportunities to achieve sales quotas. With customers you will create and implement strategic customer engagement plans focused on attaining enterprise-wide deployments of Sophos products and services.

**What You Will Do**:

- Generate Enterprise account sales pipeline, qualifying opportunities, and accurately forecasting pipeline.
- Manage the sales process through the closure of the sale, continued development, and retention.
- Achieving agreed quarterly sales goals, developing strong relationships with key buyers and influencers in Enterprise Accounts and leveraging these during the sales process.
- Execute a planned cadence of engagement with key strategic customers, with monthly or quarterly minimums, and put detailed strategic account plans in place where appropriate.
- Maintain a detailed understanding of strategic customer accounts’ business to align Sophos solutions to the customer’s desired cybersecurity and business outcomes.
- Negotiate terms of business with customers to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction and engagement, and high adoption of Sophos technology.
- Coordinate with appropriate internal groups to generate and deliver winning Contract Bids, Proposals, RFI/RFP Responses, and Statements of Work.
- Work with the Channel Sales team and partner community to create a pipeline through indirect engagements.

**What You Will Bring**:

- 3-5 years in a sales role working with decision-makers in large organizations with a proven track record of achieving and exceeding sales quotas.
- Understanding of the enterprise sales cycle, buyer personas, and decision-making processes, and how to successfully navigate them.
- Ability to be seen as a trusted advisor to senior executives in large organizations and able to build strategic account plans.
- Exceptional opportunity discovery and deal qualification skills, value proposition presentation, negotiation, and closing skills.
- Solid technical acumen able to explain the benefits of different technologies, strong cybersecurity knowledge an advantage.
- Experience in selling through and with channel partners, and ability to thrive in a team selling environment.

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**What's Great About Sophos?**
- Our people - we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
- Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
- Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
- Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
- Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
- Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
- Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

**Our Commitment To You**
- We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants that can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.

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