Account Director - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Cybit

Description

Job Title: Account Director (Cyber Security)

Location: Edinburgh or Glasgow

Salary: £80,000 to £100,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience; plus uncapped commission that could double your salary.

Cybit

Our success is people powered, and we're on a mission to work with the best. Rapid growth, huge opportunities and exciting challenges mean we're looking for brilliant people to join our team here at Cybit.

For the last 30 years, Cybit have been supporting businesses across the UK with all areas of IT consultancy, technical support and hosting; as well as having specialist Cyber Security and Data & Analytics arms to the business. This role is based within our Cyber team where our specialists deliver a wide range of cyber security solutions and services for clients in the public and private sectors across the UK.

We operate out of three offices; Belfast (our Cyber HQ), Berkshire, and Newcastle, and have 150 employees across Cybit. We have great relationships with our vendors, and we're a F5 Gold Partner, Palo Alto Platinum Innovator, Microsoft Gold Partner, AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, Qlik Elite Partner, Alteryx Premier Partner and more

What you'll do:

Working within the Cyber team, the Account Director will be responsible for driving new business through generating and delivering a cyber security sales pipeline covering software, hardware, managed services, and professional service deals. You'll identify, follow up and close new business opportunities and develop long-term relationships with senior stakeholders of large Public and Private sector organisations, providing an understanding of the ever-changing cyber security challenges that organisations face, and advise how Cybit's offerings can support with this.

This is a sales role carrying a measureable target on gross profit.

We're looking for someone with:

• Previous cyber security sales experience
• A good understanding of networking security solutions (such as Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, F5, Juniper, and Fortinet)
• A love for new business development with the ability to enable long-term strategic relationships
• Experience selling within the Public Sector (specifically government) and Private Sector
• Excellent communication skills

Whilst the above provides an idea of the type of person we're looking for; we have exceptional training and development capabilities here at Cybit. So even if you don't meet every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you.

Why join us

Keep developing

Be the best in the business by learning from the best in the business. With industry leading training, mentoring and development, our experts will share their deep sector knowledge and help you to build a career that counts. You'll have the opportunity to work with fantastic colleagues and customers,

Work with fantastic colleagues and customers

Come together to solve real-world challenges by creating easy to use, flexible solutions and services that make a real difference to our customers' businesses.

National career, local touch

Our customers love our down to earth and friendly approach. It's part of the reason we're growing so quickly. So no matter how much we expand, or where in the UK you're based, you'll get the time and opportunity to really look after our customers.

Opportunity everywhere

We're growing fast. Which means there's plenty of room for career progression as we expand our teams and build new ones to take us to the next level.

People first, always

We never forget that our success is people-powered. So we'll give you all the flexibility you need to work your way.

Celebrate difference

We come from all over the UK, from all sorts of backgrounds. Looking after each other is essential to our continued growth and success.

Be well looked after

Happy people make happy businesses. We have a great range of flexible benefits which helps you to do your best work every day. This includes:

• 36 days annual leave including bank holidays (& the opportunity to buy more if desired)
• Pension scheme
• Healthcare cash plan
• Company electric car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Occupational sick pay
• Enhanced family leave.

Cybit is passionate about having a diverse workforce by encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion throughout the business. We have an inclusive environment where employees are encouraged to speak openly about what matters to them. This allows us all to learn and grow together within a safe and respectful environment. We provide equal opportunities to all and are a proud member of the Disability Confident scheme.

You may have experience as: Cyber Sales, Account Director, Account Manager, Business Development Manager.