Strategic Account Manager
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Strategic Account Manager Summary:
This remote position requires a motivated self-starter who will be responsible for all net new sales into Strategic Accounts, targeting organizations with $20 Billion and above in annual revenue. These accounts represent Delinea’s most strategic and sophisticated client relationships.
The role may require up to 50% travel to visit customers, attend field events, and participate in internal meetings such as sales kick-offs or quarterly business reviews.
What You'll Do:
- Apply strong business acumen and Delinea sales methodology to every prospective customer engagement.
- Achieve and exceed quota targets, while developing satisfied and referenceable customers.
- Effectively prospect to uncover sales opportunities within the assigned territory.
- Lead complex sales cycles and present the value of Delinea’s applications to C-level executives of organizations.
- Build and maintain relationships with influencers and decision-makers.
- Quickly understand business challenges and create tailored solutions.
- Manage the sales pipeline and ensure CRM accuracy.
- Learn how Delinea solutions meet client needs and develop solution-focused selling skills.
- Collaborate with marketing and sales teams to develop target strategies.
- Negotiate contracts and close agreements to maximize profits.
- Ensure timely and successful delivery of solutions according to customer needs and objectives.
- Communicate the progress of monthly/quarterly initiatives to internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop new business with existing clients and identify areas for improvement to meet sales quotas.
- Forecast and track key account metrics (e.g., quarterly sales results and annual forecasts).
- Collaborate with sales teams to identify and grow opportunities within the territory.
What You'll Bring:
- 10+ years of experience successfully selling ROI-driven, Enterprise-Wide SaaS/Subscription/Cloud Applications to C-level decision-makers within $20bn+ organizations.
- Experience selling Professional Services as part of outcome-based solution selling.
- Ability to demonstrate software offerings at a detailed level, develop innovative value propositions, and negotiate under pressure.
- Demonstrated success in working with channel partners and alliances.
- Proven track record as an avid hunter, closing complex sales cycles in a consultative manner, and consistently exceeding quota.
- Thrill of generating and executing strategic plans for closing new logos and growing key accounts.
- Flexibility and ability to thrive selling independently while communicating technical and business value to stakeholders.
- Proficiency with sales automation applications, particularly SFDC forecasting and reporting.
- Familiarity with sales process frameworks, specifically MEDDPICC.
- Understanding of organizational structure and dynamics to support company strategy, culture, and priorities.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to travel up to 50%.
Bonus if You Have:
- Experience in the cybersecurity industry.
- Privileged Access Management or Identity Access Management experience.
- A Bachelor's Degree.
Why work at Delinea?
- We are passionate problem-solvers helping the world's largest organizations protect human and machine identities.
- We invest in smart, self-motivated, and collaborative individuals.
- We offer meaningful work, a culture of innovation, and great career progression.
At Delinea, our core values are STRONG:
- Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do.
- Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments.
- Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team.
- Ownership - We take initiative and follow through.
- Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment.
- Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes.
We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays.
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Delinea
View Company ProfileDelinea is a global leader in Identity Security and Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions, fundamentally redefining how modern enterprises secure digital access. Formed through the strategic merger of industry pioneers Thycotic and Centrify, the company provides an AI-driven, cloud-native platform designed to secure human, machine, and emerging AI identities. Under the hood, Delinea replaces legacy, standing access models with a robust "Zero Standing Privilege" and Just-in-Time (JIT) runtime authorization architecture—significantly strengthened by their integration with StrongDM. Powered by Delinea Iris AI, the platform centralizes authorization, continuously monitors identity posture, and intelligently vaults credentials to eliminate the massive risks associated with credential sprawl. Their primary target audience spans Fortune 500 enterprises, hyper-growth tech companies, and highly regulated government sectors that require bulletproof compliance and dynamic threat protection without slowing down developer velocity. What sets Delinea apart in the fiercely competitive cybersecurity ecosystem is its ability to make deeply complex enterprise access controls almost invisible to the end-user, enabling organizations to grant granular, task-based access seamlessly and securely in real time.
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