Posted almost 5 years ago

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

The Red Hat Sales team is looking for a Cloud Solutions Sales Specialist to join us in Zurich, Switzerland. In this role, you will manage the adoption of Red Hat's cloud solutions across Switzerland. You'll work in a matrixed structure and own the overall outcome for the sales of our cloud offerings, collaborating closely with the account teams, e.g., account management, solutions architecture, and partner account management. You will also be responsible for producing success stories that can be referenced internally around key strategic project wins.

• Sell Red Hat's cloud solutions portfolio by scoping, defining, and acquiring new business opportunities
• Develop cloud strategies and plans and participate in strategic, tactical, and forecasting planning
• Promote Red Hat's value proposition to prospective customers within a highly competitive market
• Meet quantitative and qualitative performance expectations and set high standards for articulation and presentation of key messages to C-level executives, both internally and externally
• Guide the customer from initial adoption of virtualization to a private, hybrid, and public cloud using Red Hat’s technologies and services
• Work closely with the enterprise sales account teams to identify key accounts and assist in creating and carrying out strategic account plans
• Build a growth go-to-market strategy including the partner ecosystem
• Attain trusted advisor status with senior IT and business executives for key accounts to create long-term partnerships with customers

• 5+ years of experience in a solutions sales role
• Good communication and technical skills that enable customer relationship development at engineering, commercial, and executive levels
• Excellent product and technical understanding; ability to understand customer business issues and technology requirements
• Ability to produce a narrative to customers around a broad portfolio of solutions that meet their business objectives
• Solutions sales experience in a company with multiple offerings and services
• Proven ability to work seamlessly with global, cross-functional teams to achieve success on behalf of customers
• Balance of strategic and tactical skills; creative thinking skills
• Fluent language skills in German and English; more languages are a plus

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