Inside Sales - Commercial Account Manager (m/f/d)

Posted 3 Days Ago
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2 Locations
Remote or Hybrid
Entry level
Security • Software
The Role
Manage commercial customer accounts across an assigned Swiss territory, working remotely from Germany. Responsibilities include achieving sales quotas, developing new business, managing customer engagement and retention, enabling channel partners, maintaining pipeline and CRM accuracy, forecasting, delivering business reviews, coordinating with sales engineers, and attending customer or partner events. The role requires German and English fluency, sales experience, CRM knowledge, technical aptitude, strong organization, communication, and willingness to travel.
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About Us
Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.
 
Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.
 
Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Role Summary 

With a focus on Commericial Accounts (Company size: 1–100 employees), you will be the Sophos Sales representative in an assigned territory in Switzerland working from Germany. You will be responsible for generating business for Sophos with our partners, building and maintaining strong and sustainable relationships, managing customers and prospects in order to develop and maintain Sophos business and meet / exceed sales targets.


What You Will Do:

  • Achieve bookings quota & KPIs for all accounts in the assigned territory (size of company may vary before starting a new financial year)

  • Achieve new business and product targets

  • Manage the entire customer engagement process, from customer requests coming through channel partners to development and retention

  • Engage and enable joint selling with channel partners

  • Work closely with channel partners in order to work on their opportunites and requests and expand their customer base

  • Regularely interact with internal Channel Teams to plan, work and discuss Pipeline

  • Consistently articulate Sophos’ value proposition to customers in order to maintain and expand Sophos’ business within assigned customer accounts

  • Work on Sophos generated Leads & Opportunities meeting internal SLAs

  • Proactivley engage Sales Engineers & other stakeholders in appropiate opportunities

  • Successfully implement our sales methodology ‘BaseLine Selling’ as well as MEDDPICC in your daily business calls with end customers & partners

  • Ensure Pipeline Management is accurate for the current and quarters ahead meeting internal SLAs

  • Participation at internal education and training programs

  • Maintain good knowledge of the IT security market & competition

  • Analyse territory performance based on Management key metrics (e.g. activity planning, revenue, daily billings, pipeline, won/loss, product growth etc…)

  • Deliver quarterly business review to Management

  • Provide timely and accurate sales forecasts

  • Log all activity to maintain accuracy of CRM and forecasting systems & meet internal SLAs

  • Handling of administrative tasks e.g. Quoting, CRM data cleaning

  • Attend Sophos or Partner organised events

  • Willingness to travel and meet customers/Partners/Distributors on site when needed

  • Substitution of colleagues within the sales team during holidays, illness and transition times

What You Will Bring:

  • First Work experience in a similar sales role 

  • Good knowledge of Sales Processes including acquisition, development and retention 

  • Preferably experience in selling IT solutions through channel partners

  • Previous use of CRM / Forecasting system 

  • Fluent in German and English verbal / written (C1 Level)

  • Technical minded

  • Strong structured working method

  • Strong communication skills – verbal and written

  • Strong time management and organisational skills

  • Ability to thrive in a team selling Environment

  • Strong skills in flexibility, proactivity and self-motivation approach

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Ready to Join Us?
At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.
 
What's Great About Sophos?
·   Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.
·   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 who 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.  For more information on Sophos’ data protection practices, please consult our Privacy Policy Cybersecurity as a Service Delivered | Sophos

Skills Required

  • First work experience in a similar sales role
  • Knowledge of sales processes, including acquisition, development, and retention
  • Experience selling IT solutions through channel partners
  • Previous use of CRM or forecasting systems
  • Fluent German and English, verbal and written, at C1 level
  • Technical mindset
  • Strong structured working method
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong time management and organizational skills
  • Ability to thrive in a team-selling environment
  • Flexibility, proactivity, and self-motivation

Sophos Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sophos and has not been reviewed or approved by Sophos.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time away is positioned as broad, with company-wide wellness days plus dedicated learning days and paid volunteer time.
  • Parental & Family Support Family-related leave appears more comprehensive than baseline offerings, including paid parental leave, caregiver leave, and extended bereavement leave.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Wellbeing support is emphasized through always-available assistance resources and a Calm subscription, suggesting a lifestyle-oriented benefits approach.

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The Company
HQ: Abingdon
3,747 Employees
Year Founded: 1985

What We Do

Cybersecurity Evolved. As a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos protects nearly 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by SophosLabs – a global threat intelligence and data science team – Sophos’ cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions secure endpoints (laptops, servers and mobile devices) and networks against evolving cybercriminal tactics and techniques, including automated and active-adversary breaches, ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, phishing, and more.

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