Regional Account Manager - Northwest Canada (Calgary Or Edmonton)

Description
Gigamon seeks a motivated individual to fill the position of Regional Account Manager – Northwest Canada. As a direct sales position, you will identify, qualify and capture tactical sales opportunities that will align Gigamon strategically. In this role, you will also command and manage all the moving parts through the full life cycle to closure. We are searching for an entrepreneurial self-starter who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, completing multiple complex tasks simultaneously, who can use his or her direct sales talent to expand adoption of Gigamon capabilities. Duties also include development of business strategies and solutions for complex and multi-faceted customer problems, and internally provide advice to support the overall growth strategy for driving Gigamon’s business activities in Canada.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Sells new and existing products, discovers new opportunities, and secures incremental business
• Attends trade and vendor shows and meetings as required
• Devises new approaches to problems encountered, shares approach with Regional Business Managers
• Collaborates with Product Managers on presentations, product demonstrations, and on-site customer visits
• Provide pertinent market and competitive information to the organization
• In collaboration with Product Managers, develops short and long-range strategies for product expansion; assesses potential application of the company products to meet customer needs and prepares detailed product specifications for the development, implementation, and customization of customer solutions
• Provides timely communication and follow-up to customers, consistently meets the customers’ expectations
• Maintains database of customers. Enters interactions with customers in SalesForce database
• Responsible for the sales of company’s products within an assigned geographic territory and within an assigned group of named accounts within the region. Achieves sales budget by the growth of existing accounts and the development of new accounts
• Uses available resources to develop effective sales calls. These resources include opportunities identified by previous sales calls, invoices, Tech Service cases, webinar attendees and sample requests
• Consistently performs effective sales calls throughout the assigned territory and closes new business opportunities
• Other duties as assigned
• Uses a wide application of complex principles, theories and concepts in the specific field
• Assists in providing training to lower level Sales staff
• Explores, identifies, and communicates potential opportunities with the Regional Business Managers and Product Managers
• Creates opportunities to enhance technical methodology or content through expansion of existing or development of new efforts
• Advanced level of specialized knowledge, with record of sales success; expert in the field
• Researches and analyzes the territories and the company’s markets, competition and product mix; makes presentations on new and existing products to current and potential customers
• Represents Sales group on cross-functional team interfacing with R&D, production, and manufacturing to develop new products or enhance existing products or product lines
• Provides innovative problem-solving approaches to enhance organizational capabilities; uses peer network to expand technical and sales capabilities and identify new sales opportunities

Education / Experience

• 10+ years of direct selling experience in the Networking or/and Network Security space.
• Background in sales engineering, or training in CS, IT, EE a plus
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills a must.
• Experience with SalesForce. Disciplined around forecasting.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, CIS, or related field preferred.
• Excellent consultative, solution selling skills to all levels within organizations.
• Reside in region, track record of relationships with local major accounts and channel partners.
• Track record of success as “rookie of the year”, President’s club, YoY attainment of quota.