Digital Territory Account Mgr I German speaker

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. 
 

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

At F5, our employees are valued and empowered, collaborative and team-oriented, innovative in their approach, and passionate about their work. They are reliable, trustworthy, and operate with a high level of integrity. We embrace diversity, foster an inclusive culture, and are committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive and bring their authentic selves to work.

We're looking for a driven and enthusiastic Digital Territory Account Manager I to join our Digital Sales team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to develop their career in enterprise technology sales while working with industry-leading application delivery, security, cloud and AI solutions.

In this role, you'll be responsible for identifying new business opportunities, engaging prospective customers and helping to grow F5's presence across a defined territory. Working alongside experienced sales professionals, Sales Engineers, Channel Partners and Marketing, you'll learn how to position F5's solutions and support customers as they modernise and secure their applications.

You'll support customers and partners across South Germany, so professional fluency in both German and English is essential.

This role is well suited to someone who enjoys building relationships, is naturally curious, and wants to develop into a successful enterprise sales professional within a collaborative, high-performing team.

• Build and develop a healthy sales pipeline across your assigned territory.
• Identify and engage prospective customers through outbound prospecting, digital selling activities and inbound opportunities.
• Qualify customer needs and introduce F5's solutions through virtual meetings, calls and presentations.
• Develop strong relationships with customers and channel partners to uncover new business opportunities.
• Work closely with Sales Engineers, Marketing, Channel Partners and Account Managers to progress opportunities and deliver a great customer experience.
• Keep Salesforce up to date with opportunity activity, pipeline progression and forecasts.
• Continue developing your knowledge of F5's solutions, the competitive landscape and customer challenges.
• Take part in marketing campaigns, webinars and customer events to help generate new opportunities.
• Consistently work towards achieving sales goals while demonstrating F5's values and Business Code of Ethics.

• Around 2-4 years' experience in technology sales, inside sales, business development, sales development, customer success or another customer-facing commercial role.
• Professional fluency in both German and English.
• A genuine interest in technology and a desire to build a long-term career in enterprise sales.
• Confidence communicating with customers by phone, video and email.
• The ability to build relationships, ask great questions and understand customer challenges.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• A proactive, resilient and collaborative approach with a willingness to learn.
• Previous experience using Salesforce or another CRM platform would be beneficial but is not essential.
• Exposure to cloud, cybersecurity, networking or SaaS technologies is advantageous, although training will be provided.

At F5, you'll be supported from day one with structured onboarding, ongoing coaching and the opportunity to learn from experienced sales professionals. You'll work with some of the world's largest organisations, gain exposure to market-leading technologies and have clear opportunities to grow your career within our sales organisation.

If you're ambitious, enjoy building relationships and are looking for the next step in your sales career, we'd love to hear from you.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting [email protected].