Regional Sales Director, Large Enterprise & Majors

About Zscaler

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.

With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances.

Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.

The Zscaler Sales Culture

Winning Technology and Products -We offer the best technology and products for the cloud first world. We pioneered cloud security and continue to grow our 70B + TAM by releasing new products every year.

Investing in People – A well-funded and world-class Sales Strategy and Enablement Team to help you succeed. Sales process, practical methods and training to help you ramp faster and close larger deals as companies accelerate their move to the cloud.

Supportive Leadership – An industry leading leadership team with strong values, off the chart business acumen that will help you succeed quickly, while providing mentorship and career growth.

Competitive; We Play to Win – We are playing in a Rapidly growing TAM and huge market mega-shifts that leads directly to Zscaler; tracking a growth path similar to Salesforce, Workday, & ServiceNow.

Job Description

Regional Sales Director, Large Enterprise

1st Line Leadership of Regional Sales Managers

As the Regional Sales Director, you will report to our BENELUX RVP and will be responsible for building, directing and managing a focused effort on 6-7 sales (at max capacity) reps in The Netherlands.

• You will have the opportunity to direct and drive new business, build customer loyalty, ensure high product renewal rates and support and promote corporate strategies and initiatives.
• Critical to success is the ability to build and manage high-performance field sales teams, develop and execute area business plans, allocate appropriate resources, and develop internal and external relationships.
• The ideal candidate will effectively balance day to day tactical challenges with building long term strategic plans to achieve smart and healthy organizational growth.
• As a key member of the sales leadership team, the Regional Sales Director - will be responsible for maintaining the highest ethical and business standards with both customers and employees.
• A leader with a fast growth mindset & leads with open - learning would be best positioned to support the further development of the ambitious team currently in The Netherlands

*Customer References:
GE: http://bit.ly/GEZenithLive
Siemens: http://bit.ly/SiemensZenithLive
Microsoft: http://bit.ly/MSZenithLive

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Regional Sales Managers (6 x Field Sales Reps) to overachieve on sales goals
• Recruit, hire and develop world-class sales talent
• Partner with marketing and channel to create a rolling 5x pipeline
• Develop and execute a regional strategy that ensures quarterly sales quota achievement
• Ensure sales processes and programs are part of the sales culture to ensure visibility, predictability, and consistency
• Create and maintain an operations plan with goals and objectives for the region, based on opportunity, customer needs, and strategic direction.
• Attract top-performing solution sales professionals into the BENELUX organisation
• Prioritising the most critical initiatives with a relentless drive to execute

Qualifications and Background:

• Business degree preferred
• 6 + years of Enterprise Sales Leadership experience in software/SaaS.
• 8+ years Overachieving on quota software sales experience as an Individual contributor.
• Proven track record of building and leading successful sales teams.
• Strong sales process and methodology around territory planning, assessment and resource allocation.
• Strong leadership, planning, execution, people-management and coaching skills.
• Strong communication skills and demonstrated ability to establish credibility and trust with customers and to build influential relationships with partners in the business, including Finance, Legal, HR, Inside Sales, Channel Partners and R&D.
• Thorough understanding of SaaS business models with enterprise security experience a plus
• Understand both business and people, including their drivers and success factors.
• Understand and communicate the business value and/or ROI of installed and proposed products and solutions.
• Desire to be a change-agent in the organisation; industrialising processes that scale
• Thorough understanding of various routes to market through a broad network of channel partners
• Professional presence with the ability to “ lead the room” with C level customer executives
• Ability to lead, and earn the trust of, experienced sales professionals

Preferences:

• Prior experience working in a start-up environment with a constantly evolving landscape
• Creativity in solving complex customer business challenges
• Ideally based near Amsterdam

Leadership attributes:

• Build Great Teams by investing in the development of others
• Demonstrate Ownership by being accountable for failure and learning from it
• Drive for Results by driving your team to deliver high quality products, simplifying the complex and prioritizing
• Role Model and Foster Z Values

Additional information

Why Zscaler?

Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we’d love to talk to you about joining our growing team of almost 6.000 Zscaler team members.

Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) is available at https://www.zscaler.com

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