Account Director
At a glance
Leadership Account Management role at Qualys. 5 Locations · full-time.
Pay not stated Account Director salary
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What you'll do
- Manage enterprise customer relationships, renewals, account health, and expansion opportunities across your territory
- Build territory plans, forecast sales, and pursue upsells through outbound work and channel partners
- Lead quarterly business reviews, executive meetings, roadmap sessions, and recurring account-team calls
- Prepare proposals, answer RFI and RFP requirements, negotiate contracts, and coordinate order processing
- Bring sales, technical, support, marketing, and architecture teams together to resolve issues and advance projects
What you bring
- Background in account management or sales, preferably within cybersecurity or technology
- Working knowledge of cloud cybersecurity offerings and recurring-revenue sales models
- Experience serving financial services, banking, capital markets, or insurance organizations
- Comfort with CRM systems, sales forecasting, market analysis, and identifying expansion opportunities
- Ability to manage several accounts and support teams while keeping projects moving
Who this fits
You’ll suit a senior account owner who can build executive relationships, run structured account reviews, and close expansion business. The role involves coordinating internal account, sales, technical, and support teams while working independently and collaboratively. Travel is required.
From the employer
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
Overview
Qualys, a leader in cloud cybersecurity solutions, is seeking a motivated individual to join our sales team. In this role, you will be instrumental in driving sales growth by managing existing enterprise-level customer accounts, ensuring renewals, and identifying upsell opportunities. You will collaborate closely with internal teams to deliver exceptional service and contribute to our mission of securing digital transformation for our clients.
Key Responsibilities
- Account Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with enterprise-level customers, ensuring their needs are met and fostering long-term partnerships.
- Business Development: Hunt, develop, and close upsell opportunities within your assigned territory, leveraging outbound efforts and channel partnerships.
- Sales Strategy: Create and execute a comprehensive territory plan to meet and exceed bookings objectives, aligning your efforts with Qualys' growth targets.
- Sales Presentations: Deliver high-level and detailed sales presentations that effectively communicate the value of Qualys’ cybersecurity solutions to prospective clients.
- RFI/RFP Management: Respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs, tailoring responses to align with customer requirements and demonstrate Qualys’ capabilities.
- Technical Support: Collaborate effectively with our Technical Support Engineers (TSEs) who are responsible for driving successful case outcomes.
- Market Awareness: Stay updated on industry trends, cybersecurity developments, and regulatory changes, enabling you to position Qualys’ solutions effectively in the market.
- Conference Attendance: Represent Qualys at conferences and seminars, both virtually and in-person, engaging with potential customers and showcasing our offerings.
- Collaboration: Partner with Sales Engineers, Solution Architects, Sales Leadership, and Marketing teams to align on customer needs and enhance our product offerings, ensuring seamless execution of strategies for customer success.
Qualifications
- Proven experience in account management or sales, preferably in the cybersecurity or technology sector.
- Strong understanding of cloud cybersecurity solutions and recurring revenue models.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated ability to build relationships at all organizational levels.
- Experience in Financial Services, Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance
- Proficient in CRM tools and sales forecasting methodologies.
- Ability to analyze market trends and customer feedback to identify upsell opportunities.
- Self-motivated, results-driven, and capable of working independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
- Need to own the account and effectively manage account support teams.
- Highly organized and able to manage multiple accounts and multiple accounts teams.
- Need to understand how to keep projects moving.
- Manage quarterly business reviews, executive reviews and product roadmap sessions
- Negotiating and closing contracts
- Maintain regular cadence calls with account teams to review health, strategies, projects and business requirements
- Track account leads and ensure timely response for company SLA’s
- Coordinate support and technical teams to resolve product related issues or technical challenges
- Required to preparing sales proposals, coordinating contract requirements and processing orders
- Must be willing to travel
Qualys is an Equal Opportunity Employer, please see our EEO policy.
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