Business Value Consultant

Summary

Join Abnormal Security as a Business Value Consultant and become a critical member of our sales organization. You will serve as the financial and business value expert on cross-functional sales teams, working with Fortune 500 clients. Your responsibilities include leading teams, facilitating customer discovery sessions, developing strong relationships with sales leaders, enabling value selling, providing coaching, and contributing to program evolution. This role requires significant experience in customer-facing cybersecurity roles with F1000 clients, expertise in value-based sales methodologies, and strong financial modeling skills. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional communication and problem-solving abilities. While not mandatory, an MBA from a top business school and experience with a premier consulting firm are preferred.

Requirements

• Significant experience (5-10+ years) in a Customer Facing, Cybersecurity, role working with F1000 Customers; this may be a mixture of Sales and Management Consulting experience
• Extensive field experience working in value-based sales, pre-sales, or consulting with a proven track record of success
• Experience with Value based Sales Methodologies and / or qualification frameworks; e.g. MEDDIC, Force Management
• Experience leading a consultative discovery process and developing a convincing executive quality business case case
• Knowledge of business and technology related challenges and solutions including email security and cybersecurity
• Deep financial modeling, benchmarking, and quantitative skills and experience developing and defending subscription based SaaS purchases
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and participate on projects with varied industry and business imperatives
• Proven ability to build consensus and lead in a virtual/remote team environment
• Exceptional business problem solving aptitude combined with strong interpersonal skills
• Outstanding oral and written presentation communication skills, you will frequently be presenting to C-Level audiences

Responsibilities

• Personally participate and lead cross-functional teams with our most important customers and senior Abnormal experts from sales, pre-sales, and product; working to shape and drive large cybersecurity with supporting business cases including Value Assessments, TCO / ROI and Value Realization
• Facilitate customer discovery sessions to identify and prioritize business value drivers and supporting metrics
• Develop strong relationships with field sales and pre-sales leaders, co-developing priorities and execution strategies
• Enable the field in value selling and self-service value assessments by leveraging a common framework with supporting tools and methods
• Provide coaching to team members and contribute to team thought leadership by using your knowledge, consulting skills, experience, and analytical capabilities to help develop best practices and drive revenue growth
• Contribute to program evolution and scale with innovation and thought leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of public cloud operational technology, processes, and cybersecurity standards preferred
• MBA from a top-rated business school and an undergraduate degree in a quantitative field preferred
• Experience with a premier consulting firm focused on strategy, technology or security consulting preferred