NetApp

Senior Manager - Solutions Engineering

Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaPosted yesterday

Salary
AED 6k–8k a month· est.
Job type
Full time
Level
Lead
Field
Sales & Business Development
Work mode
Remote

About the role

Job Summary Lead and inspire a high-performing team of Solutions Engineers and/or front-line leaders to drive the growth of NetApp’s business. This role focuses on delivering impactful customer outcomes by leveraging the full technical breadth and differentiation of NetApp’s portfolio.As a leader, you will play a key role in maximizing revenue by coaching and empowering your team to effectively influence customer buying decisions and articulate value throughout the sales cycle.This position requires regular travel to engage closely with team members, customers, and partners, ensuring strong relationships and successful business outcomes. Ready to make an impact? Join us and help shape the future of customer success and technical innovation at NetApp. Apply now to be part of a team where your leadership truly makes a difference. Job Requirements • Fluent in English and Arabic • Expertise in coaching team members’ technical knowledge, industry trends awareness, and applying insights and expertise to solve client problems. • Proven ability to oversee the discovery and development of new opportunities, managing the pipeline and ensuring effective relationship management to maximize revenue. • Highly organized, data-driven and committed to Sales Excellence. • Strong executive presence, influence and communication skills; ability to build and nurture strong relationships with team members, customers, and partners. • Proven success in hiring, developing and performance managing teams, while maintaining strong team culture. • Demonstrated ability to stay ahead of industry trends, customer challenges, and competitive developments that support NetApp’s value proposition. • Strong business acumen understanding of market dynamics that help address and solve customers’ goals and needs. • Understanding of NetApp’s solutions domains, AI, use-cases, and associated sales plays, with the ability to assess and coach talent on the same. • Demonstrated experience in AI and Cyber Resilience solutions, with the ability to guide technical teams, influence customer strategies, and drive solution adoption. Job Responsibilities • Lead a team of SEs to drive regional growth with Client Executive teams, focusing on new accounts and expanding existing ones through upselling and cross-selling • Leverage solution portfolio and messaging to drive value via data infrastructure, cloud, cyber resiliency, AI, and Block benefits • Act as technical sales orchestrator, engaging experts timely to support success • Own accurate forecasts and sales progression using sales tools • Consistently exceed sales quotas • Coach teams on demos and POCs to build customer confidence and highlight solution value • Guide teams to document customer needs and develop proposals illustrating solution benefits • Foster a high-performance culture with Thrive Performance & Rewards, emphasizing clear expectations, feedback, and rewards • Identify and mentor high-potential members, providing development opportunities • Manage underperformance fairly and recruit top talent to boost productivity At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process. Equal Opportunity Employer NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification. Why You'll Thrive at NetApp At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure. NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security. Our culture We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do. If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now. Submitting an Application To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application. AI Disclosure For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.

Requirements

Fluent in English and Arabic; Expertise in coaching team members’ technical knowledge, industry trends awareness, and applying insights and expertise to solve client problems; Proven ability to oversee the discovery and development of new opportunities, managing the pipeline and ensuring effective relationship management to maximize revenue; Highly organized, data-driven and committed to Sales Excellence; Strong executive presence, influence and communication skills; ability to build and nurture strong relationships with team members, customers, and partners; Proven success in hiring, developing and performance managing teams, while maintaining strong team culture; Demonstrated ability to stay ahead of industry trends, customer challenges, and competitive developments that support NetApp’s value proposition; Strong business acumen understanding of market dynamics that help address and solve customers’ goals and needs; Understanding of NetApp’s solutions domains, AI, use-cases, and associated sales plays, with the ability to assess and coach talent on the same; Demonstrated experience in AI and Cyber Resilience solutions, with the ability to guide technical teams, influence customer strategies, and drive solution adoption.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of SEs to drive regional growth with Client Executive teams, focusing on new accounts and expanding existing ones through upselling and cross-selling; Leverage solution portfolio and messaging to drive value via data infrastructure, cloud, cyber resiliency, AI, and Block benefits; Act as technical sales orchestrator, engaging experts timely to support success; Own accurate forecasts and sales progression using sales tools; Consistently exceed sales quotas; Coach teams on demos and POCs to build customer confidence and highlight solution value; Guide teams to document customer needs and develop proposals illustrating solution benefits; Foster a high-performance culture with Thrive Performance & Rewards, emphasizing clear expectations, feedback, and rewards; Identify and mentor high-potential members, providing development opportunities; Manage underperformance fairly and recruit top talent to boost productivity.

Skills

  • English
  • Arabic
  • coaching
  • pipeline management
  • relationship management
  • Sales Excellence
  • executive communication
  • hiring and performance management
  • AI
  • Cyber Resilience
  • data infrastructure
  • cloud
  • solutions architecture
  • demo and POC coaching
  • forecasting

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