Reporting to the Regional Director of Sales, the Account Executive is responsible for aggressively building a pipeline, delivering revenue, and expanding the Cofense market share in assigned accounts located in the Western region.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities
- Exceed quarterly and annual revenue goals to continue our explosive growth.
- Build relationships with key decision-makers in Information Technology & Security departments across a variety of companies & industries.
- Prospecting, technical presentation, pipeline management and a demonstrated ability to close.
- The position will require regular travel, as well as the ability to represent our company at events.
- Other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required
- Expertise in managing sales opportunities from prospect to closure.
- Ability to provide live and web-based demonstrations of the Cofense solution without sales engineer support (though SE support is available as needed).
- Excellent negotiation, presentation, and communication skills.
- Capability to present technical information to a variety of audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to forecast and manage information within the Cofense CRM tools (salesforce preferred)
- Extensive contacts in the information security field.
- Ability to manage multiple high priority tasks to successful completion.
- Ability to work in a fast paced, geographically dispersed organization.
- Ability to travel a minimum of 30%.
Education and/or Experience:
- 4 Year Bachelor of Arts or Science degree preferred
- 5+ years successful experience in outside software sales of information security services or products
- Disclaimer-
The above statements are neither intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be a listing of all of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job. This job description is not a contract of employment, either express or implied. Employment with Cofense will be voluntarily entered into and your employment is considered at will. Cofense reserves the right to alter the job description at any time without notice.Cofense is committed to equal employment opportunity.
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