Senior Manager, NetSec Business Development

2 Months ago • 10 Years + • Business Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Manager, NetSec Business Development will drive NetSec revenue and pipeline through strategic alliance partnerships, VAR Ecosystem enablement, and direct sales teams in EMEA. This role involves collaborating with Sales, channel sales, and marketing to support plans that grow products and increase brand recognition. Key responsibilities include developing field engagement strategies, training partners, recruiting new partnerships, identifying use cases, providing product integration feedback, collaborating on launches and lead generation, driving strategy execution across EMEA, and supporting broader NetSec strategy. The role requires a proven track record of business development experience in cybersecurity, SaaS, and/or AI products.
Must have:
  • 10+ years of Business Development experience
  • Experience in cybersecurity, SaaS, and/or AI products
  • Ability to identify growth opportunities and pipeline creation
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams

Job Details

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

Job Description

Your Career

The Senior Manager, NetSec Business Development has the primary responsibilities to drive NetSec revenue and pipeline with and through our strategic alliance partnerships, VAR Ecosystem enablement and direct sales teams leverage in EMEA. Working in conjunction with Sales, channel sales, and marketing, contribute to and support plans that drive the growth of our products and increase brand recognition in the market. Depending on the initiative, plans include: direct and indirect sales initiatives, direct and indirect sales training, and direct and indirect marketing initiatives. 

 Your Impact 

  • Develop and execute field engagement strategy.

  • Training of alliance partners, sales teams, reseller partners to identify and close opportunities.

  • Target and recruit new partnerships and alliances in new market segments

  • Identify common uses cases, develop and share selling strategies directed at specific market segments (examples: 5G, IOT, Zero Trust, Critical Infrastructure, Manufacturing)

  • Provide feedback to Business Development leadership and Product Management teams to execute product integrations for incremental growth.

  • Collaborate with all Marketing functions to appropriately scope, and organize product/partnership launches and lead generation activities ensuring alignment with overall product positioning and messaging. 

  • Work with sales to align our sales resources, assist in closing opportunities and drive strategy execution across the EMEA region.

  • Ensure sales alignment, develop and deliver content for executive briefings, roadshows and events. 

  • Support broader NetSEc strategy execution and collaboration with regional and global business leaders.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive pipeline generation, customer engagements and market penetration

  • Support the development and execution of strategies to identify, qualify and convert a robust pipeline of potential customers for NetSec security solutions

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• Proven track record with 10+ years of Business Development or GTM strategy execution with a focus on cybersecurity, SaaS and/or AI products.
• Ability to identify growth opportunities and help create pipeline for acceleration and focus.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and interact with senior executives.
• Experience assembling and launching solutions to market

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing market conditions

• Ability to conduct travel up to 20% of the time across the region

Additional Information

The Team


We work hand in hand with organizations around the world as they move to a more secure environment. As part of the Business Development team, you find and create opportunity, forming relationships with organizations seeking a trusted partner.
You are empowered with unmatched systems and tools, including constantly updated research and sales libraries and a team built on joint success. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks who isn’t committed to your success — everyone pitches in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development.

Our Commitment 


We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer.

We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Our enterprise security platform detects and prevents known and unknown threats while safely enabling an increasingly complex and rapidly growing number of applications. Come be part of the team that redefined the firewall industry and is now the fastest-growing security company in history. Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before.

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