District Sales Manager

Palo Alto NetworksJohannesburg, ZA

30+ days ago

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Job title : District Sales Manager

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline : November 22, 2025

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Our solutions are best-in-breed and customers need a trusted cybersecurity partner who can create a truly zero-trust-based security architecture. Our customers are looking to us to create critical transformations and our portfolio of solutions will help us do that.

As a District Sales Manager, you will lead a team of field sellers and to help formulate and execute a strategy to maximize business growth. You are instrumental in developing and managing your team to generate revenue and achieve individual, team, and organizational quotas.

We are looking for a proven first-line sales leader with great energy, leadership, and initiative to drive team performance and revenue growth for our sales team. This role will entail :

Deeply understanding your customers’ needs by doing the research to develop insight into their priorities

Bring support to your team by participating in and leading prospect meetings

Deep dive into weekly territory pipeline and forecasting activities to coach direct reports on strategies to drive closure

Actively engage in territory planning and development, relationship development and opportunity to drive revenue by supporting and assisting your team in closing opportunities

Lead a high-performance sales culture that delivers results in bookings, sales development, and forecast accuracy while simultaneously mentoring and developing your team

In-depth technical knowledge of our portfolio with the ability to take a holistic approach to help solve our customers' problems

Drive and oversee team selling opportunities

Holds team and self accountable to achieve challenging goals while maintaining a forward-thinking approach when faced with setbacks

Ability to communicate with leaders at all levels, including C-suite and establishes open and trusting relationships

Successfully influences others through change management

Development of a winning team, including recruiting, hiring and training while upholding our core values.

Your Experience

Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and / or security industry

Experience with channel and partner sales models

Proven leader with the ability to create high performing teams in a rapidly growing sales environment.

Year over year track record of successful sales pipeline management and results

Highly driven individual with an execution focus and a strong sense of urgency with an entrepreneurial mindset.

Track record of consistently delivering revenue numbers and goals while maintaining a focus on team development and growth.

Capable of successfully managing significant client escalations and issues

Excellent at influencing others, both externally and internally; ability to communicate effectively and build consensus across various functional groups to achieve goals.

You're a leader and you know that to get the best results, you also have to be a great team player, building excellent rapport and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

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