Regional Sales Manager
OPSWAT
Salary undisclosed
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Description
OPSWAT, a global leader in IT, OT, and ICS critical infrastructure cybersecurity, delivers an end-to-end platform that gives public and private sector organizations and enterprises the critical advantage needed to protect their complex networks, secure their devices, and ensure compliance. Over the last 20 years our commitment to innovative technology has earned the trust of more than 1,700 organizations, governments, and institutions globally, solidifying our role in protecting the world’s critical infrastructure and securing our way of life.
The Position
The Regional Sales Manager is a significant driver of company revenue and growth. Your responsibilities will include: learning the OPSWAT technology; developing and implementation of a strategic account plans targeting deployments of our Cybersecurity platforms and solutions. You will build the right relationships inside a target account, know how to leverage your company resources to the fullest, and negotiate and close new business. The ideal candidate will have previous work experience as a member of a corporate sales team and a career track record of exceeding multi-million-dollar sales quotas. Candidates selling into critical infrastructure and data diode sales experience are given a preference.
What You Will be Doing
- Strategically target business opportunities that leverage high value use cases, in key verticals.
- Develop and execute sales strategies and tactics to sell OPSWAT products, solutions, and services to exceed your sales quotas.
- Communicate value propositions to clients that speak intimately to their needs and requirements.
- Utilize client-centric, solutions-oriented selling strategies and hunter’s mentality to identify, qualify, convert enterprise sales.
- Effectively articulate financial ROI/TCO value, and build value throughout the negotiation process.
- Maintain extensive account and opportunity detail in Salesforce CRM, including account win plans, customer touch points, sales inhibitors, etc.
- Forecast and report revenue projections accurately to management.
- Overachieve on annual quota, measured quarterly.
What We Need from You
- A minimum of 5 years successfully selling technology products and solutions to business.
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a technical discipline or equivalent experience.
- A successful track record selling complex-solutions directly to enterprise customers and through Channel/SI Partners.
- You’re persuasive, and have excellent negotiation and presentation skills. You can effectively communicate with both technology-oriented and senior business executives at the “C” level, and are comfortable articulating the technical and business value of the OPSWAT platforms.
- Your work is a mix of strategic and proactive account activity, and you have a demonstrated ability of uncovering, qualifying, developing, and closing new accounts.
- Ability to set goals, prioritize tasks, and achieve success with minimal oversight in a sometimes ambiguous work environment.
- You keep your pipeline accurate and your forecast updated for management.
- Possess, at minimum, a fundamental understanding of security threats, solutions, and security tools.
- Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction.
- You’re highly competitive, ramp quickly, are extremely adaptive, and pride yourself on exceeding sales goals.
- You are able to travel as necessary to your assigned accounts, and to Company meetings.
- Highly ethical and professional personal conduct.
OPSWAT is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an environment where equal employment opportunities are extended to all employees and applicants, free of discrimination and harassment of any type. All employment decisions are based on individual qualifications, job requirements, and business needs without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Recruiting Agencies: we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third party agencies for any of our open positions. To submit resumes for our jobs, there must be a recruiting contract approved by our legal team and endorsed by both parties. We are currently not accepting additional 3rd party agencies at this time.
About this role
OPSWAT is seeking a Regional Sales Manager to drive revenue growth across critical infrastructure cybersecurity sales in the Cape Town region. This is a contract position based in-office, and the role centers on identifying and closing enterprise deals for OPSWAT's end-to-end cybersecurity platform. You'll own the full sales cycle—from developing strategic account plans and building relationships with key stakeholders to negotiating complex deals and exceeding multi-million-dollar annual quotas. Success requires translating OPSWAT's technology into compelling value propositions that resonate with C-level executives and technical teams alike, while maintaining disciplined pipeline management and accurate forecasting in Salesforce.
The ideal candidate brings at least five years of enterprise technology sales experience, with a proven record of closing complex solutions directly with large customers or through channel partners. You should be comfortable articulating both technical and financial value, possess fundamental security knowledge, and demonstrate the hunter mentality and competitive drive needed to consistently overachieve quota. Prior experience selling into critical infrastructure or data diode solutions is preferred. This role demands high autonomy, strong negotiation and presentation skills, and the ability to travel to accounts and company meetings as needed.
Typical pay for this role
$100,000
Typical range: $80,000 to $120,000
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