Sales Specialist - Telco

Arqit
London
1 year ago
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Description

Arqit is a global cybersecurity company delivering quantum-safe encryption to secure data and communications for enterprises, governments, and critical national infrastructure (CNI). Powered by its advanced symmetric key cryptography, the Arqit SKA-Platform™ offers scalable encryption that is resilient to quantum threats. The platform allows devices to seamlessly generate and share secure encryption keys, ensuring robust data protection across sectors like telecoms, defence, and finance. 
Stronger, simpler encryption.
Arqit has brought together a world-leading team of pioneers in engineering and cryptography, and we now have an opportunity for aSales Specialistwith a specific focus on theTelecomsmarket. We want you to bring your passion for Cloud technology and your expertise in the cybersecurity market, to help us build a truly disruptive global organisation.


The role will involve working in our central London office, with considerable flexibility around working from home; there will also be business travel involved.  


What you'll be doing

Reporting to the Chief Revenue Officer, you will you will manage Telco-targeted sales across the UK. Working closely with Product and Marketing executives to refine the go-to-market for Telco products, you will secure key account wins and continue to build the foundations for large scale growth.   
  • Own and exceed large $multi-million sales revenue targets
  • Generate net new opportunities within FY25
  • Deliver high impact logo wins via key telco account plan strategy and execution
  • Define and manage sector sales strategy, reporting and KPIs
  • Proactively identify opportunities and sales process improvements
  • Sectoral advocacy for our unique cybersecurity capabilities
  • Provide telco market customer expertise and bring broad and deep relationships in those sectors across leading partners and suppliers
  • Deliver a GTM strategy for telco accounts, including Key Account Plans and manage all partner interactions
  • Understand and communicate key sectoral trends
  • Interact as the Telco sector SME with wider Technical, Product and Engineering teams to inform and develop product propositions to reflect market need and revenue generating requirements.
  • Refine and position the Telco-focussed GTM strategies and value proposition in cooperation with wider Marketing & Product GTM activity


What we're looking for

  • Passion for cybersecurity, cloud, and encryption technology with a deep understanding of telco requirements
  • Acknowledged industry expertise in the cybersecurity realm, with a high level of technical understanding
  • A quantifiable track record of success in telco cybersecurity product sales
  • A high intellect and enquiring mind with a genuine desire to work on cutting-edge technologies and concepts
  • Excellent communication, organisational and time management skills 
  • Creativity and flair, drive and intelligence
  • High degree of resilience, individual initiative and self-starter approach. 
  • Comfortable with change, complexity and significant challenges
  • Collaborative approach, happy working in a fast-growing and fast-changing environment
  • Ideally educated to at least degree level in engineering, or another technical discipline 
  • Ability to work in the UK without restriction 

Arqit supplies a unique quantum safe encryption Platform-as-a-Service which makes the communications links or data at rest of any networked device or cloud machine secure against current and future forms of attack – even from a quantum computer. 

Arqit’s product QuantumCloud™, enables any device to download a lightweight software agent, which can create encryption keys in partnership with any number of other devices. The keys are computationally secure, optionally one-time use and zero trust. QuantumCloud™ can create limitless volumes of keys in limitless group sizes and can regulate the secure entrance and exit of a device in a group.

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