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Sales Specialist (Channel Account Manager - SMB - Africa Region)

Sophos

Sophos

Sales & Business Development
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Posted on Jul 19, 2023
Sophos is a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, protecting more than 500,000 organizations and millions of consumers in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by threat intelligence, AI and machine learning from SophosLabs and SophosAI, Sophos delivers a broad portfolio of advanced products and services to secure users, networks and endpoints against ransomware, malware, exploits, phishing and the wide range of other cyberattacks. Sophos provides a single integrated cloud-based management console, Sophos Central – the centerpiece of an adaptive cybersecurity ecosystem that features a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity vendors. Sophos sells its products and services through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos has major hubs around the globe. More information is available at www.sophos.com
Role Summary
The Sales Specialist COE will manage inbound business driven by channel partners and support customers that have 1–100 employees, assisting partners with quotes, renewals, deal registrations, licensing, and other sales related activity.
They will mainly cater to customers in the Africa region and also handle some customers in the Middle East region.
This is a contractual role for 12 months with Sophos.

What you will do

  • Grow existing customers and new acquisitions under assigned SMB territories.
  • Increase SMB customer retention year on year.
  • Manage a funnel of inbound leads and prioritize responses based on service level agreements and exceed monthly quota for closing sales opportunities.
  • Ensure quotes and other tasks are processed in a timely, efficient, and accurate manner, ensuring compliance with internal policies.
  • Understand the end-to-end processes across deal flow including roles and responsibilities of cross-functional support teams to quickly resolve issues.
  • Update CRM (Salesforce.com) with conversations, competitive information, decision-making criteria and other pertinent information.
  • Communicate effectively and efficiently with the customer partner to progress on assigned tasks.
  • Achieving agreed quarterly sales goals and performance indicators for daily standards for number of tasks handled and closed i.e. tickets, calls, emails, and other sales activities.
  • Effectively communicate with Sophos prospects and customers using phone, email, LiveChat, SMS, and our Sales Engagement Platform (Outreach.io).
  • Add value to the Channel business through best-in-class support and growth mindset.

What you will bring

  • Up to 3 years of total work experience.
  • Experience with SMB Customer retention and new acquisitions under the assigned SMB territories.
  • Experience calling customers for renewals, cross-sell, and up-sell.
  • Experience handling the Africa region and(or) Middles East region.
  • Experience using CRM systems. Salesforce is preferred.
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What's Great About Sophos?
· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
Our Commitment To You
We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants that can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
Data Protection
If you choose to explore an opportunity, and subsequently share your CV or other personal details with Sophos, these details will be held by Sophos for 12 months in accordance with our Privacy Policy and used by our recruitment team to contact you regarding this or other relevant opportunities at Sophos. If you would like Sophos to delete or update your details at any time, please follow the steps set out in the Privacy Policy describing your individual rights. If you have any questions about Sophos’ data protection practices, please contact dataprotection@sophos.com.