Sr. Regional Sales Director, Japan

Gigamon, recently certified as a Great Place to Work, helps the world’s leading organizations run fast, stay secure and innovate. We provide the industry’s first elastic visibility and analytics fabric, which closes the cloud visibility gap by enabling cloud tools to see the network and network tools to see the cloud. With visibility across their hybrid cloud network, organizations can improve customer experience, eliminate security blind spots, and reduce cost and complexity. Gigamon has been awarded over 90 technology patents and enjoys world-class customer satisfaction with over 4,000 organizations, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100 and hundreds of governments and educational organizations worldwide. What you will do: Develop, manage, and grow existing Large Enterprise customers, while adding new ones in your assigned territory. Be responsible for the sales of company’s products within an assigned geographic territory and within an assigned group of named accounts within the region. Achieve sales budget by the growth of existing accounts and the development of new accounts Maintain database of customers. Document interactions with customers in Salesforce database Use available resources to develop effective sales calls. These resources include opportunities identified by previous sales calls, invoices, Tech Service cases, online seminar attendees and sample requests Sell new and existing products, discovers new opportunities, and secures incremental business Explore, identify, and communicate potential opportunities with the Regional Business Managers and Product Managers Consistently perform effective sales calls throughout the assigned territory and close new business opportunities Attend trade and vendor shows as required Provide timely communication and follow-up to customers, consistently meet the customers’ expectations Provide pertinent market and competitive information to the organization In collaboration with Product Managers, develop short and long-range strategies for product expansion; assess potential application of the company products to meet customer needs and prepare detailed product specifications for the development, implementation, and customization of customer solutions Collaborate with Product Managers on presentations, product demonstrations, and on-site customer visits Represent Sales group on cross-functional team interfacing with R&D (Research & Development), production, and manufacturing to develop new products or enhance existing products or product lines Research and analyze the territories and the company’s markets, competition, and product mix; make presentations on new and existing products to current and potential customers Provide innovative problem-solving approaches to enhance organizational capabilities; use peer network to expand technical and sales capabilities and identify new sales opportunities Devise innovative approaches to problems encountered, share approach with Regional Business Managers Use a wide application of complex principles, theories, and concepts in the specific field Create opportunities to enhance technical methodology or content through expansion of existing or development of new efforts Assist in providing training to lower-level Sales staff Other duties as assigned What you have done: Direct selling experience in Network Security and/or Networking space. Hold a track record of success as “rookie of the year,” President’s club, YoY attainment of quota. Experience with Salesforce. Disciplined around forecasting. Who you are: Advanced level of specialized knowledge, with record of sales success; expert in the field Possess excellent consultative, solution selling skills and can present to all levels within organizations. An exceptional communicator and presenter Reside within the region and have established relationships with local major accounts and channel partners. #LI-Remote