Principal, Business Value Consultant

Company Description
**Our Mission**

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

**Our Approach to Work**

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together

**Job Description**:
**Your Career**

In this Principal Business Value Consultant role, you will lead cross-functional teams composed of leaders from our Ecosystems GSI team, customers, sales, solution consulting, business units, and other functional groups. You will have the opportunity to excel in areas of sales strategy, consultative discovery, and engagement execution including business analysis, problem solving, program management, executive communication and consensus building.

**Your Impact**
- Support the GSI sales process by providing value-based selling expertise.
- Contribute to team thought leadership by consistently synthesizing experiences into reusable content and frameworks
- Develop and deliver value-related training and workshops to GSIs and customers.
- Elevate the value function internally across our field sales stakeholders to contribute to the overall account(s) sales strategy
- Lead cross-discipline, multi-LOB engagement teams with our partners, customers and senior Palo Alto Networks experts from sales, pre-sales, consulting, and solution architecture - working to shape and drive global systems integrator cyber security and digital transformation capabilities
- Provide coaching to team members by leveraging knowledge, consulting skills, experience, and analytical capabilities in identifying key C-level strategic issues, assessing existing process capabilities, and developing business cases for IT and security transformation objectives
- Create industry and Palo Alto Networks solution specific value selling tools, programs, and initiatives for use in our sales, alliances, and marketing organizations - Support value-selling training activities across the sales ecosystem

**Qualifications**:
**Your Experience**
- 12+ years of experience preferably in a top management consulting firm or technology company with a focus on business transformation
- MBA degree preferred or equivalent military experience required
- Excellent situational awareness and executive presence, with a track record of successfully influencing the C-suite to act
- Proven ability to drive accountability & build consensus with all team members and customers, in driving operational excellence and quality of deliverables - Exceptional business problem solving aptitude using established consulting frameworks and methodologies, or out-of-the-box ideas, to frame available information and drive executive decisions
- Experience with risk assessment, especially cyber risk is preferred

Additional Information
**The Team**

Business Value Consulting is a strategic, consultative team and is a critical member of Palo Alto Networks' organization. We engage with Fortune 1000 customers to build and deliver strategic business justification to be their digital transformation cybersecurity partner. You will lead cross-functional teams composed of leaders from customers, sales, solution consulting, business units, and other functional groups. You will have the opportunity to excel in areas of sales strategy, consultative discovery, and engagement execution including business analysis, problem solving, program management, executive communication and consensus building.

**Our Commitment**

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.