BDR Revenue Acceleration Manager

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 Impact

• Directly apply expertise in the BDR process, methodology, and opportunity development to execute and amplify proven sales motions on a day-to-day basis, translating best practices into immediate field action.
• Partner with Marketing, Industry, and Field Teams to ensure the direct delivery of vertical-specific messaging, current case studies, and scalable sales plays to the Commercial team for immediate use.
• Own the tactical execution plan to accelerate Renewals performance. Partner with Customer Success and Sales Leaders to manage and enforce pipeline hygiene, actively identify and mitigate churn risks, and ensure the successful execution of upsell/cross-sell opportunities within the renewal cycle.
• Lead and facilitate regular, high-impact territory planning and opportunity review sessions. Ensure these reviews translate directly into defined, measurable short-term and long-term action plans for BDR teams.
• Cultivate and maintain high-trust relationships with BDR leaders and teams through a high-touch, operational partnership approach. Consult, advise, and directly support BDR execution toward the achievement of quarterly and annual goals.
• Translate data insights into immediate course corrections and execution adjustments. Proactively identify leading indicators of business health and address operational gaps to amplify desired results and drive predictability.
• Apply critical thinking and a consultative approach to influence business development behavior and tactical execution across teams without formal reporting authority, ensuring adoption of best practices.
• Develop, manage, and evolve program impact reporting with a focus on leading indicators of business health, actionable renewal rates, and verifiable growth and bookings outcomes for the specific verticals.
• Ensure BDR and customer success execution plans are directly linked to and support the tactical realization of the organization's transformational initiatives and strategies.
• Actively participate in and drive the execution of key business development programs and forums, ensuring program concepts are translated into field reality.

• Adept at mapping and navigating complex deals and sales cycles
• Proven ability to assess and align to customer business drivers to create business cases that support portfolio, platform or services sales and long term customer success
• Understanding of relevant business, financial acumen, cybersecurity industry and market experience
• Experience mapping Commercial accounts via deep discovery of functional areas, stakeholder alignment, and pathways to connect disparate perspectives toward consensus
• Demonstrated sales leadership, coaching and sales enablement skills and experience
• Strategic mindset with strong problem solving, analysis, and critical thinking skills
• Skilled at activating data-driven initiatives enabling sales teams to sell broadly into accounts with programmatic structure
• Facilitate insightful, motivating and collaborative sales strategy sessions including account planning, territory strategy, opportunity level reviews, executive briefings, pre-call plans, etc.
• Executive presence and consultative approach
• Mentoring/Coaching and Leadership Development Experience
• Highly motivated, energetic, inclusive, self-starter who demonstrates leadership, adaptability, flexibility and integrity
• Ability to travel up to 25%