The Role
The Renewals Representative partners with Account Managers to achieve renewal and expansion sales targets, manage client relationships, and support account renewals and documentation processes.
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About Us
Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
The Renewals Representative is a quota-carrying overlay sales role, responsible for partnering with a small number of Account Managers/Executives to jointly achieve overall renewal and expansion sales targets. The Renewals Rep will focus on reaching renewal rate, renewal ACV and renewal billings targets in a prescribed territory, while supporting and enabling expansion motions in partnership with the AM/AE. As customers have acquired Sophos solutions, it is necessary that we continue to ensure those customers realize the value expected from their purchase and renew and ideally expand that business relationship together. The Renewals Rep will be responsible for managing the pipeline of renewals opportunities that are not already being driven by their AM/AE partners in a prescribed territory.
What You Will Do
- Closely collaborate with Account Manager/Executive teammates in shared territories to divide and conquer to maximize NRR
- Team to achieve agreed-to quarterly renewal and expansion sales goals, develop strong relationships with key partners, buyers and influencers and leverage these during the renewals sales process.
- Maintain strong partner and customer relationships, understand their business needs, and align them with Sophos solutions.
- Identify customer renewal risks and collaborate with channel partners, sales teammates, and the customer success team to coordinate activities to mitigate the risk.
- Work closely with customers, channel partners and internal teams to acquire the documentation necessary for Sophos to correctly recognize revenue transactions.
- Support and manage the end-to-end renewals process, including maintaining an accurate renewals opportunity forecast status in SFDC
- Follow Sophos standard renewals sales processes and policies including forecasting management, conducting sales campaigns, documenting activities, following up on assigned actions, etc.
- Execute a planned cadence of engagement customers and put detailed strategic account plans in place where appropriate.
- Work in support of the new business sales team when their expansion business is in conjunction with a pending renewal to ensure full renewal is achieved and partnering to support the additional growth solutions to the customer’s desired cybersecurity and business outcomes.
- Enterprise Renewals Rep: Low volume engagement driven primarily through strategic partnership with Enterprise Account Executive, within or outside of the renewal window. Engagement based on collaboration with AE regarding risk or potential.
- Midmarket Renewals Rep: Medium volume engagement within renewals window, partnering through opportunity tagging by Account Executive, and outbound engagement for any untagged renewal window opportunities.
- Commercial Renewals Rep: High volume engagement within renewals window, leveraging outbound digital, cadenced engagements. Motions driven primarily through partner engagement with reactive actions in support of full book of commercial renewals within renewal window.
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What You Will Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Communications, or Marketing preferred; or proven relevant experience in previous roles.
- 1-3+ years experience in renewal account management or sales roles working with decision-makers in large organizations with a proven track record of achieving and exceeding sales quotas.
- Familiarity with Salesforce tools such as Lightning and CPQ, as well as additional tools like Outreach, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, and Microsoft Outlook.
- Strong understanding of the Renewals sales cycle, buyer personas, and decision-making processes, and how to successfully navigate them.
- Exceptional retention risk discovery skills, value proposition presentation, negotiation, and closing skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and build relationships with customers.
- A self-motivated and proactive approach to a set of tasks, with the ability to work independently and prioritize tasks effectively.
- Solid technical acumen able to explain the benefits of different technologies and strong cybersecurity knowledge an advantage.
- Experience in selling through and with channel partners, and ability to thrive in a team-selling environment
In the United States, the base salary for this role ranges from $60,200 to $100,100. In addition to the base salary, there's a component for target sales commissions alongside a comprehensive benefits package. A candidate’s specific pay within this range will depend on a variety of factors, including job-related skills, training, location, experience, relevant education, certifications, and other business and organizational needs.
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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.
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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.
