Cologne, Germany Hybrid Full-time

Grand Canyon Education is hiring a Global Account Manager

Responsibilities

  • Manage and expand assigned global accounts, nurturing both existing relationships and new business opportunities across regions.
  • Build trusted-advisor relationships with senior executives, decision-makers, and multi-threaded customer stakeholders.
  • Develop and execute strategic global account plans that identify growth potential, whitespace opportunities, customer priorities, and measurable business outcomes.
  • Lead high-level commercial discussions, contract negotiations, and customer engagement plans to support long-term account success.
  • Identify market insights, customer trends, and new business opportunities that strengthen Check Point’s competitive positioning within strategic global accounts.
  • Position Check Point’s full cyber security portfolio, including cloud, network, mobile, endpoint, firewall, AI-driven security, and advanced threat prevention solutions.
  • Guide and coordinate virtual global teams, including Sales Engineering, specialists, partners, Customer Success, Professional Services, and Support, to optimize growth opportunities and customer outcomes.
  • Drive account expansion, cross-sell, upsell, and broader solution adoption across complex enterprise environments.
  • Use Check Point tools and structured account management practices to manage account activity, pipeline, forecasting, and reporting.
  • Travel as needed to customer locations, global stakeholder meetings, and company-wide meetings.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in global account management, enterprise sales, or strategic account management within the IT or cyber security industry, selling complex solutions.
  • Proven capability to connect technology solutions to measurable business outcomes and articulate clear value to executive and technical audiences.
  • Strong relationship management skills, with experience building trusted-advisor relationships across complex, multi-stakeholder customer environments.
  • Strong commercial negotiation skills and confidence leading high-level customer discussions.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify growth opportunities, develop account plans, and expand strategic customer relationships.
  • Experience working with virtual, cross-functional teams across regions and functions to deliver customer value.
  • Strong time management skills combined with a high level of autonomy, ownership, and self-direction.
  • Ability to operate in a fast-paced, global, collaborative, and customer-focused environment.
  • Fluent German and English are required.

Nice to Have

  • Cyber security experience is strongly preferred; experience with enterprise security solutions, cloud security, network security, firewall, or advanced threat prevention is an advantage.

Additional Information

  • Fluent German and English are required.
  • Travel as needed to customer locations, global stakeholder meetings, and company-wide meetings.
Required Skills
Global Account ManagementEnterprise SalesCloud SecurityNetwork Security
Job Details
Location Cologne, Germany
Work mode Hybrid
Employment Full-time
Department Global Accounts
Category other
Posted 2 months ago
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Grand Canyon Education (GCE) is a rapidly growing educational service company that has long been an industry leader in providing educational, operational, and technological support services to the post-secondary education sector. Formerly part of Grand Canyon University (GCU), GCE still works closely with GCU to benefit thousands of students, families, and the local inner-city community.
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