Regional Sales Director France and Benelux

Regional Sales Director – France and Benelux

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Join us on our mission of protecting organizations against the most advanced attackers in the world!

Pentera is the leader for Automated Security Validation, allowing every organization to test with ease the integrity of all cybersecurity layers, unfolding true, current security exposures at any moment, at any scale. As a result, thousands of security professionals and service providers worldwide use our platform to guide remediation and close security gaps before they are exploited.

We are a unicorn with more than 300 employees around the globe, with over 700 customers in production in more than 45 countries!

Pentera has won various Industry Awards, including the Frost & Sullivan “Best Practices Award for Global Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS) Market Leadership 2022 and the 2020 Gartner Cool Vendor Award. We are backed by Top tier investors such as Insight Partners, K1 Investment Management, The Blackstone Group, and AWZ.

Penterians are one team with a shared mission. Become a Penterian – change the way the world does cyber!

About the role:

We are looking for highly motivated, self-driven, and experienced Regional Sales Director for France and the BeNeLux dedicated to making a difference in global security by protecting organizations against the most advanced attackers in the world.

The successful candidate is a senior level sales position, responsible for driving revenue through developing the sales execution plan, leading the Enterprise sales team, and achieving Company growth goals.  

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Candidates should have executive level contacts and be flexible and adaptable to rapidly changing situations. 
• Must be a results-driven, customer-focused, technologically savvy, and innovative at building internal relationships and external partnerships to attack the market with passion!
•  Accustomed to a ‘high-velocity’ sales model, partnering with Sales Development Reps (SDRs), Inside Sales Reps (ISRs) and partners to grow the Region. 
• Candidates should also have executive level contacts and be flexible and adaptable to rapidly changing situations. 
• You must be extremely results driven, customer focused, technologically savvy, and innovative at building internal relationships and external partnerships to attack the market with passion!

• 5+ years of successful track record of managing a team of 4 or more individual contributors in SaaS, enterprise software company, or a security vendor
• Direct quota carrier with at least 3 years history of meeting and over-achieving targets in the Cyber Security market.
• Work closely with both end customers and channel partners to generate, develop and close sales opportunities for Pentera.
• Identify, develop and execute account strategy to close new business opportunities and expanding revenue with customers across the assigned region; independently and cooperatively.
• Target and gain access to decision makers in key prospect accounts in the assigned territory.
• Skilled influencer, able to identify the right partners (re-sellers and distributors), establish relationship and provide leadership and support to all partners.
• Owns sales forecasting, pipeline management and upward reporting to Regional Executive.
• Understand complex customer requirements on both business and technical levels & ability to articulate these whilst bringing Pentera solution to help solve them.
• Significant and proven experience developing relationships with senior executives
• Leverage and maintain CRM tools to record all opportunities and deals (i.e. real-time forecast and funnel management).
• Outstanding presentation, written, verbal and closing skills.
• Self-motivated ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to work remotely and able and willing to travel on short notice, up to 50% of the time.
• Ability to overcome sales obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches.
• Must have experience bringing a new company and product to market

We are an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to building a diverse and talented workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by applicable law. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds to join us!