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Proofpoint Deals Desk Analyst in Cork, Ireland
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Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
The Role
Proofpoint’s is looking for a motivated Deals Desk Analyst to join our License Compliance organization. This group is responsible for working with Sales, Finance/Revenue, Legal and other cross functional teams to facilitate accurate deal structure for our worldwide sales teams. This individual contributor role will be a true value-add partner and business liaison. You will be a member of a team responsible for enabling the sales function with general pricing guidance and quote accuracy and completeness. Working alongside your colleagues, you will learn and provide various pricing techniques and strategies to sales partners to ensure competitive and profitable margins. You will also apply knowledge of the booking process and the necessary requirements to facilitate a smooth transactional close. Critical thinking and self-motivation will be key assets for your success in this role. This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual looking to grow their skills and experience being a key part of the sales transaction process.
Your day-to-day
Be a primary contact to the Commercial Sales Organizations for all topics regarding quoting and pricing requirements.
Leverage CPQ (Configure Price Quote) and SFDC Lightning to generate and configure quotes.
Responsible for in-depth review and understanding customer’s account information, leveraging several data sources, including SFDC and shared folders.
Partner with the sales team to determine general pricing guidance, overall transaction qualifications, and review prepared quotes for accuracy on basic product and pricing guidelines.
Work cross-functionally with all departments that may have a direct impact on quoting requirements (Sales Operations, Legal, finance, Professional Services, Order Management, etc.) to ensure audit and business guidelines are understood and followed and that all requirements are met.
Ensure required approvals, such as discounts and contractual terms, are obtained and clearly documented.
Be a sales advocate and partner to internal organizations to understand the details around each transaction.
Apply effective communication strategies with all teams to ensure open channels of communication through the company, including phone calls, emails, and team meetings.
Ensure sales requests are processed in a timely, efficient and accurate manner with strong focus during period-end deadlines
What you bring to the team
Experience in a Deal Desk, sales operations, functional sales support or order management teams is preferred; experience with software/SaaS business is a plus.
Strong decision-making skills, with the ability to leverage data sets for justification
Working knowledge of SFDC and basic MS Excel formulas are highly recommended
Ability to work independently in fast paced environment
Demonstrated capability to build strong working relationships with internal business units
Why Proofpoint
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.
We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint
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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
Proofpoint has been honored with five Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams.
To view additional awards, please visit www.proofpoint.com/us/news#awards
Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos.
We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers’ sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees.
Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.
We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace.
At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today’s advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:
Build and enhance our proven security platform
Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture
Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel
Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.
Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.
Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.