Senior Named Account Manager - Japan

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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.

Protection Starts with People.  Proofpoint.

The Role

Proofpoint, Inc. is seeking a self-starting highly motivated sales professional to join our successful and growing Named Accounts organization. This team helps large enterprise organizations throughout the United States and the world protect their most sensitive data. Our new team member will have a proven track record of meeting and exceeding sales goals and will have extensive experience as a trusted advisor to CISOs, CIOs and other C-level executives.

The Named Account Manager will team up with our world class Sales Engineering Organization and our channels team to introduce Proofpoint to new customers, as well as to expand our presence with companies who are already part of our existing customer base. The candidate who will best fit our culture will take great pride in delivering for customers and act with honesty and integrity. They will always operate as part of the team, strive for innovation, take initiative and be accountable, but most importantly, they will be here to win from day one.

This role will target accounts in a region and be based in Tokyo, Japan.

Your day-to-day

•            Have 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

•            Strive to both penetrate net new accounts as well as to expand our presence with existing customers by introducing them to the rest of our security portfolio

•            Partner with the channel organization in order to secure new share of the security market

•            Team up with our Sales/Systems Engineering team to prepare account strategies and plans, and to deliver outstanding product demos and proof of concept programs to prospects and customers

•            Last, but certainly not least, WIN!! Blow your quota out of the water

What you bring to the team

•            We are looking for an enterprise sales professional with a minimum of 3 years of experience in a field sales role selling to large enterprise organizations

•            The ideal candidate must have a proven track record of success and established working relationships with KDDI Group

•            Ideally we would like to see experience selling Enterprise Security or Information Technology products, but if you’ve existing relationships with KDDI Group, we still want to talk to you!

•            Must have a proven and demonstrable track record of exceeding sales goals

•            Strong written and verbal communication skills and be able to clearly and effectively articulate Proofpoint’s value

•            Great sales people are organized, detail and process oriented

•            Must be a self-starter with the ability to work independently or in a team environment

•            Ability to manage multiple tasks and use good judgment in resolving difficult issues

•            Experience with SalesForce or similar CRM tools strongly preferred

•            BA/BS or equivalent preferred

Why Proofpoint

As a customer focused and driven-to-win organization with leading edge products, there are many exciting reasons to join the Proofpoint team. We believe in hiring the best the brightest and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation. As we continue to grow and expand globally, we understand that hiring the right people, rewarding and treating them well is key to our success! For more information please visit www.proofpoint.com

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