Regional Account Manager

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About Trend Micro

Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fuelled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro's cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organisations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, the platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defence techniques optimised for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response. With 7,000 employees across 65 countries, Trend Micro enables organisations to simplify and secure their connected world.

By joining our team of passionate industry experts, you have the opportunity to become a trailblazer and shape the cybersecurity landscape.

Position Overview:
The Regional Account Manager (RAM) is responsible for driving growth of Trend Micro technologies and services from new prospects and an established successful client base. The RAM will also be responsible for working alongside Trend Micro’s strategic partner community to participate in joint sales based initiatives and assist in the sales enablement function to ensure partners are aligned with the defined sales strategy.

This newly created role covers the south region and would offer the right person the chance to build a sales pipeline covering all industries for companies with between 500 to 1000 seats.

**Responsibilities**:

- Increase Trend Micro’s market share in the defined territory.
- Professionally representing Trend Micro and proactively selling its broad range of enterprise security solutions and services through our well established partner community.
- To identify and pro-actively target prospects and existing clients to drive the adoption of new technologies and services increasing market share in the defined territory.
- Develop and implement a sales strategy that will exceed sales targets and ensure a high level of customer acquisition, growth, satisfaction and retention.
- Develop and deliver sales presentations, effectively representing Trend Micro’s business, product and value proposition, and differentiation in the market.
- Lead commercial negotiations and overcome objections with prospects, customers and partners.
- Work closely with pre-sales engineers on delivering customer presentations and demonstrations to ensure alignment with sales strategy and customer requirements.
- Co-ordinate marketing, sales and technical support to ensure a high level of awareness and customer satisfaction in the defined territory.
- Ensure disciplined use of Trend Micro sales tools to facilitate opportunity management, accurate forecasting, account planning and ensure customer relationship information remains up to date.
- Maintain sound knowledge of the industry, trends and the competitive posture of Trend Micro and other industry leaders regarding security offerings and support services.
- Work closely with the Sales and Marketing teams to ensure events and campaigns are aligned with sales strategy and local market demands.
- Work Closely with Trend Micro’s partner manager to facilitate growth and trust within the partner community.
- Align with Partner Manager to participate in strategic account planning and prospecting activities within the partner and alliance community to deliver mutual benefit.

Skills and experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including demonstrable presentation skills, negotiation skills and strong closing ability.
- Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively and influence a broad range of stakeholders, internal and external.
- Ability to engage at the C level in a business benefits discussion.
- Ability to work autonomously and integrate as part of a remote team.
- Minimum 3+ years’ experience in an IT Sales role.
- Previous experience or exposure selling Enterprise Security Solutions would be preferred.
- Previous experience in selling IT security/ Infrastructure/ Software would be an advantage.
- Strong knowledge of cloud based solutions preferred.

Desired certifications
- Account Management certification such as SPIN or MEDDIC would be highly regarded.
- Sales Based Certifications.
- Security Certifications.

Benefits of being a Trender
- At Trend Micro, our people and culture are our power. There are no barriers - you are empowered to discover your passion and be the best part of yourself.
- We encourage you to challenge the status quo, break assumptions, and learn and grow every step of your career, fulfilling your potential.
- Helping customers succeed is our top priority. We believe in doing the right thing, solving the right problems, and maintaining business sustainability. And our