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Channels Solutions Consultant

Channels Solutions Consultant

Palo Alto NetworksToronto, Ontario, Canada
6 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Job Description

Your Career

As a Palo Alto Networks Channel Systems Engineer, you are a critical part of the sales team; it is your responsibility to build solutions and enable the partner, work with the partner to build a strong services practice, align and build relationships between the partner and Palo Alto Networks, and finally build joint value by demonstrating the partner’s strengths, focused around Resell, Professional Services and Managed Services.

You will represent the company as a technical advisor tasked with building excitement and support for the company with the partner’s sales and technical teams. You will travel and take ownership of the technical relationship with our channel partners to demo, train, enable, communicate with and continually engage technical partner team members by dedicatedly managing and delivering technical content and establishing relationships either onsite, online, and via telephone. You will have specific recruitment, enablement, training and communication objectives aligned with the objectives of the company.

Your Impact

Ability to align partner needs and strategy with the value of Palo Alto Networks

Provide product demos on all aspects of the Palo Alto Networks Platform

Provide technical enablement and training to strategic / national partners

Strategically position Palo Alto Networks with other technologies sold by partners

Participate in partner business planning activities by supporting the development and execution of the partner technical business plan

Facilitate the planning and preparation of partner Sales Engineers (SEs) in achieving Palo Alto Networks and industry certifications

Oversee partner pre-sales activities, including competitive analysis, test plans, demos, proofs of concept, and RFPs

Cross-communicate Palo Alto Networks and partner value propositions, especially between partner SEs  and Palo Alto Networks field Solution Consultants (SCs)

Understand and effectively present the Palo Alto Networks’ security platform

Create, execute, and review a technical readiness plan with the CBM / regional sales team, including measurable achievements to track progress

Provide localized technical training to partner’s pre-sales and post-sales technical resources

Support product / service training of the partner sales teams

Educate and promote the use of Palo Alto Networks support model and effective use of available resources

Collaborate with the CBM / regional sales team on the development and management of the channel partner business plan and mutual action plans

Understand and communicate the business advantages of a partnership with Palo Alto Networks

Develop a strong understanding of Palo Alto Networks’ channel partner objectives

Qualifications

Your Experience

Strong understanding of the partner community in Canada, technology trends, and competitive landscape

Strong communication and listening skills, including effective delivery of presentations

Ability to write and speak clearly and precisely, and structure information logically for digestion

Ability to ask questions to clarify situations before acting or making decisions

An understanding of how to qualify partner needs to create accord

Flexible and adaptable self-starter with strong relationship-building skills

Intellectual curiosity, humility, accountability, and positive approach

Experience as a SE / SC or Systems Integrator

Experience selling, demonstrating, installing or troubleshooting network, endpoint, cloud and application security products

Industry knowledge of network products and technology trends

Knowledge of competitive solutions and selling strategies

Modern datacenter and public cloud infrastructure and technology is preferred

Modern network threats and malware is preferred

Network forensics and incident response is preferred

Automation and orchestration tools and Endpoint security products technologies is preferred

Relevant industry certifications – Eg. SANS, CISSP, CCIE, etc is preferred

Additional Information

The Team

As part of our Systems Engineering team, you’ll support the sales team with technical expertise and guidance when establishing trust with key clients. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. As a member of our systems engineering team, you are motivated by a solutions-focused sales environment and find fulfillment in working with clients to resolve incredible complex cyberthreats.

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.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, 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.