Data Protection Sales Specialist - UK Enterprise
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Data Protection Sales Specialist - UK Enterprise
Strategic Territory & Account Leadership
- Develop and execute a go-to-market plan for enterprise accounts across vertical markets.
- Support creation of account plans, mapping decision-makers, technology landscape, investment priorities, and transformation initiatives.
- Identify new business opportunities and drive expansion within existing customers.
- Position Zerto solutions in the context of ransomware resilience, continuous data protection (CDP), disaster recovery, and hybrid/multi-cloud strategies.
- Position HPE's wider Data Protection Solutions including ISVs and hardware platforms.
- Own forecasting, pipeline development, and sales reporting.
Customer Engagement & Relationship Building
- Engage stakeholders from CIO to Operations to understand business-critical systems and resilience needs.
- Influence customer strategy and connect Zerto and Data Protection solutions to business outcomes.
- Conduct executive-level presentations, workshops, and value-based conversations.
Ecosystem & Internal Collaboration
- Work with channel partners, VARs, SIs, and ISVs to drive joint opportunities.
- Leverage the ecosystem to accelerate reach into new enterprise accounts.
- Partner with marketing and channel teams on campaigns, events, messaging, and customer engagement.
- Communicate field insights, competitive trends, and customer requirements to internal stakeholders.
Industry & Technical Expertise
- Be able to identify key challenges in vertical markets.
- Collaborate with pre-sales to deliver workshops, demos, POCs, and technical scoping.
- Maintain competitive knowledge across backup, DR, and cyber-recovery solution providers.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- 5+ years enterprise technology sales experience, ideally in backup, disaster recovery, cyber-resilience, cloud infrastructure, or data protection.
- Demonstrated success selling into enterprise-level commercial accounts and acquiring new customers.
- Track record of achieving and exceeding revenue targets in complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles.
- Familiarity with solutions from Zerto, Veeam, Rubrik, Cohesity, Commvault, Dell, VMware or public cloud.
- Ability to articulate technical concepts such as continuous data protection (CDP), RPO/RTO, hybrid cloud architectures, ransomware recovery, and application mobility.
- Experience working with channel partners and the broader data protection ecosystem.
- Strong communication, negotiation, and executive presentation skills.
- Excellent territory management, prospecting, and account planning capabilities.
- Experience of MEDDPICC or similar
- Self-driven, organised, and able to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
Personal Attributes
- Highly motivated and commercially driven with a strong hunter mindset.
- Consultative, credible, and comfortable engaging C-level stakeholders.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to connect technical capabilities to business outcomes.
- Collaborative team player
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