Regional Vice President North West EMEA

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.

Regional Vice President Sales North West EMEA

Region: UK & Ireland Benelux and the Nordics & Baltics

Reports to: Senior Vice President EMEA Sales.

About F5

At F5 we bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create secure and run the applications that power how we live and work and we are passionate about cybersecurity from protecting consumers from fraud to freeing companies to innovate.

We deliver and protect revenue-generating brand-anchoring applications from the point they are created to the point a consumer uses them from code to customer. That makes F5 essential to the worlds largest enterprises service providers financial institutions governments and consumer brands.

We build a culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential because we know our differences are what make us better for our customers.

The role

We are seeking an experienced sales leader to run F5s North West EMEA region covering the UK and Ireland Benelux and the Nordics and Baltics. Reporting to the SVP EMEA you will own the regions number strategy and team managing all sales personnel within a matrixed Systems Engineering and Channels organization. A key measure of success is sustained growth of F5s market share in the North West quarter on quarter and year on year.

You are an outward customer-facing executive with a track record in high-touch consultative enterprise sales of software and SaaS across hybrid cloud security and application services to Fortune 1000 customers. Under the guidance of the SVP EMEA you will set the regional strategy identify target markets and execute across direct and channel routes.

Responsibilities

• Own and grow the regions number deliver and exceed targets budget and forecast and expand revenue and market share across the accounts and F5s full product range

• Recruit develop and retain a strong sales team and grow the regions sales managers into leaders

• Own the regions most senior customer and channel-partner relationships bringing partners in early and running a significant part of sales through the channel

• Put account territory and business planning in place that makes the strategy real in the field and standardize sales-management review

• Forecast and report sales accurately and on time

Qualifications

• Experience leading sales managers not only individual contributors

• Proven ability to transform the business whilst delivering the numbers

• A track record of setting direction aligning a team and delivering measurable impact in a senior sales leadership role the job title you held is not a determining factor

• A strong record in high-touch consultative enterprise sales of complex software and SaaS (Cloud Security AI or Application Services) to Fortune 1000 customers direct and through the channel

• Experience running a remote matrixed field sales organization

• A history of achieving and exceeding quotas in excess of $100 million

• Willingness and ability to travel across the regionpreferred

• In-depth knowledge of the application delivery cloud or security market

Additional responsibilities:

Management duties. Supervision of sales management and sales staff including performance evaluations approving paid time-off (PTO) assigning and delegating work on-the-job training guidance performance improvement plans disciplinary action and interviewing candidates for open roles.

Ethics. Uphold F5s Business Code of Ethics and promptly report violations of the Code or other company policies.

Physical demands and work environment. Duties are performed in a normal office environment and require the ability to use a computer communicate by telephone and read printed material. They may require being on call and working outside normal hours. Travel by car or air is approximately 60% of the time.

F5 is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in the workplace.

This description is a general representation of the role and may not be all-inclusive; responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

F5 only contacts candidates through an F5 email address (ending @) or an automated Workday notification (ending or @).

Equal Employment Opportunity. It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and 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 law. This applies to all aspects of employment including hiring job assignment compensation promotion benefits training discipline and termination. F5 offers reasonable accommodations for candidates; requesting one is voluntary. Contact

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 @) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @).

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 .

Required Experience:

Exec

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1