Strategic Account Manager

Sonicwall
GB
Remote

Who this role is best for

Best suited to mid-level B2B sales professionals with cybersecurity or networking experience who excel at consultative selling and territory management.

Best fit for

  • Consultative sellers who can identify and solve customer business challenges.
    — “excels at identifying customer business challenges
  • Cybersecurity sales veterans comfortable with channel partner collaboration.
    — “Experience selling through channel partners and managing partner relationships
  • Territory planners who can drive both retention and new acquisition.
    — “Develop and execute territory plans to maximize market opportunities

Things to consider

  • Quarterly revenue targets require consistent pipeline generation and forecasting.
    — “achieve quarterly and annual revenue goals
  • Industry event participation expected as a company representative.
    — “Represent SonicWall at industry events

How to stand out

  • Quantify past success in Education, Retail, or Healthcare verticals.
    — “Experience selling into Education, Retail, or Healthcare markets is preferred
  • Demonstrate executive-level stakeholder management in complex sales cycles.
    — “can position value-based solutions to executive-level decision-makers
  • Showcase CRM proficiency with examples of accurate forecasting.
    — “Maintain accurate pipeline management, forecasting, and CRM (Salesforce) records
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • driving revenue growth
  • developing customer relationships
  • closing sales deals
Typical background
B2B technology salescybersecurity sales

Skills & requirements

Required

Cybersecurity SalesNetworking SolutionsConsultative SellingTerritory ManagementChannel Partner Management

Preferred

Education Market SalesRetail Market SalesHealthcare Market Sales

About the role

Original posting from Sonicwall via Greenhouse

SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

 

SonicWall is seeking a driven and consultative Strategic Account Manager to manage and grow existing customer relationships while acquiring new business opportunities. This role is responsible for driving the full sales cycle, developing strong relationships with customers and channel partners, and delivering revenue growth within an assigned territory.

The ideal candidate has experience selling cybersecurity and networking solutions, excels at identifying customer business challenges, and can position value-based solutions to executive-level decision-makers. Success in this role requires strong collaboration with channel partners, sales engineers, marketing, and SDR teams to develop and close opportunities while maintaining accurate forecasting and pipeline management.

Key Responsibilities:

Manage and grow existing customer accounts while driving new customer acquisition.

Execute the full sales cycle from prospecting to close.

Build relationships with key stakeholders and executive decision-makers.

Identify customer business challenges and recommend tailored SonicWall solutions.

Collaborate with channel partners and internal teams to achieve quarterly and annual revenue goals.

Develop and execute territory plans to maximize market opportunities.

Maintain accurate pipeline management, forecasting, and CRM (Salesforce) records.

Represent SonicWall at industry events, customer meetings, and partner engagements.

Stay informed on cybersecurity, networking, and industry trends.

Qualifications:

3–5 years of B2B technology sales experience, preferably in cybersecurity or networking.

Experience selling through channel partners and managing partner relationships.

Strong consultative and solution-selling skills.

Experience selling into Education, Retail, or Healthcare markets is preferred.

Proven ability to manage territory planning, forecasting, and pipeline development.

Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.

Self-motivated with the ability to work independently.

Bachelor's degree preferred.

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SonicWall is an equal opportunity employer.  

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

At SonicWall, we pride ourselves on recruiting a diverse mix of talented people and providing active security solutions in 100+ countries.

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Source: Sonicwall careers (Greenhouse)

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