Account Manager - Cybersecurity - Wisconsin

This position will require the employee to reside in WI

As an Account Manager, aka. Client Manager (CM) you'll be responsible for selling Optiv security services and security technology solutions to a select few strategic accounts (typically less than 20) within a geographic territory. You'll also be responsible for owning and coordinating all aspects of the sales cycle within your assigned accounts, and leading a cross-functional team to build and execute a multi-year strategic account management plan for your top accounts.

Members of this cross-functional team will typically include a Solutions Architect, Client Operations Specialist, and an Executive Advisory Director and services practices personnel as appropriate for your accounts.

Development of a multi-year strategic account management plan for your top accounts is a core and critical responsibility for the CM. You'll identify and understand your client's core business objectives and how they correlate to mitigating business and cybersecurity risk. Based upon this understanding of the client, you'll bring together appropriate Optiv technical, Executive Advisory and leadership personnel to collaborate with your top account client leadership to refine and/or build a security strategy, and subsequently develop and propose solutions to address client security needs over a multi-year period. Ideally this will take the form of very large and complex solutions comprised of security management consulting, hardware and software security technologies, advisory, implementation and support services, and managed security services. An overarching goal is to establish a trusted relationship with the client that results in Optiv being their primary security solution partner and provider.

You'll also engage clients with a heightened focus on ever-enhancing client satisfaction. This will include meeting with clients early in the year to understand and document their business, technology and security goals, as well as client expectations of Optiv in support of attaining those goals. You’ll review these goals, expectations and progress with your clients quarterly, engaging Optiv executives and resources as necessary to ensure that your team is on track to achieve or exceed these client-defined goals.

How you’ll make an impact

• Build trusted, effective and productive relationships with client executives at multiple levels within assigned accounts.
• Lead creation of multi-year strategic account management plans, for top accounts, based upon identified client business, technology and security goals, coupled with Optiv's understanding of security trends, threats and points of view for each assigned account.
• Build a large sales pipeline, ideally 4 times assigned targets, within assigned accounts and achieve/exceed gross margin target in excess of $2M annually.
• Manage current and multi-quarter forecasts with a high-degree of accuracy, currency and integrity.
• Execute with discipline and in alignment with Force Management principles including MEDDICC and Command of the Message, among others.
• Effectively communicate Optiv’s value proposition as it relates to security services and technologies expertise and capabilities.
• Build strong, collaborative and productive relationships with technology partners and their respective sales personnel to both gain and share leads in support of building qualified pipeline and maximizing mutually beneficial sales opportunities.
• Initiate and / or monitor and mediate all necessary communications between clients, technology partners and members of the extended Optiv team (technical , sales, client operations, etc.) within each assigned account.
• Maintain collaborative and effective internal communications with Optiv team members relative to specific opportunities, associated requirements and client satisfaction.

What we’re looking for

• Experience in solution and services based sales through work in an Information Technology or Security environment typically gained over 5-7 years.
• Proven ability to build and execute territory and strategic account management plans with a track record of exceeding multi-million-dollar gross margin quotas.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional dotted-line teams comprised of sales, technical, and support personnel in a highly effective fashion.
• Strong business acumen and ability to correlate business goals with business and cyber security risk in support of developing complex security technology and services solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong and productive business relationships with key executives and sponsors within assigned accounts.
• Strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong negotiation experience
• Experience in and knowledge of the IT security market and competitors.
• Experience in and knowledge of the Risk & Compliance market and competitors.

Preferred experience:

• Experience in building and selling complex and multi-year hardware, software, services and financing solutions to Fortune 1000 clients.
• Experience in and knowledge of the IT Infrastructure market and competitors.
• Experience selling management consulting services.

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What you can expect from Optiv

• A company committed to championing Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion through our Employee Resource Groups.
• Work/life balance
• Professional training resources
• Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects
• Volunteer Opportunities. “Optiv Chips In” encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities.
• The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable)