Manager, Solutions Consulting ANZ

Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us! We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes. Job Summary Your Career The Solutions Consultant Manager is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineer Manager role, aligning how we lead teams to best serve our customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks. As our Solutions Consultant Manager, you are the technical leader for your District Solutions Consulting team. You will work closely with the District Sales Manager and, along with your team, build relationships with your customers with the goal of helping them detect and prevent advanced cyberattacks and breaches. Our customers need guidance on what applications to deploy from our platform. Your guidance, expertise, and mentorship of your team will keep them ahead of the latest cyberthreats and stay on the leading edge of prevention. As the technical leader for your assigned territory, you will guide and develop your team to define innovative technical solutions that secure customers' key business imperatives and maximize the value of their investment with Palo Alto Networks. You will champion our industry leadership in on-premises, cloud, and security operations services, establishing Palo Alto Networks as the preferred cybersecurity partner for your customers. You will also nurture talent within your team and provide valuable feedback to the product management team on new feature requests and product improvements based on insights gained from your customer interaction. Your team will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives and ensuring value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks. Your Impact Recruit and hire new Solutions Consultants into the territory, hiring the best talent in the industry Responsible for training, mentoring, and reviewing employees on your team, keeping them engaged and successful in their careers Support field Solutions Consultant team in complex evaluations, problem-solving and challenging customer environments Leads and coaches team on successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities. Define, create and monitor individual development plans for your team Works closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions. Provide effective technical leadership in customer interactions to include sharing security trends and standard methodologies employed by other customers to actively be part of the selling process Drive Palo Alto Networks Platformization efforts within your accounts. Work closely with the Domain Specialist Manager to ensure optimal use of resources and align the required resources to the projects you are handling Act as an escalation point to collaborate with pre-sales and post-sales teams for any issues that arise Build and maintain relationships with key customers to solidify reference accounts and to assist the account teams with defining plans to drive more business Present to customers as our expert in your area at all levels in the customer hierarchy from technician to CIO Discuss competitor products in the marketplace and positions ours as the best alternative Working with Product Management, Technical Marketing, and R&D to build