Senior Sales Manager - Data Services

Own Every Moment at NetApp At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud. Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function. Job Summary As the Senior Sales Manager for our Data Services portfolio, you will lead a high-performing team of sales specialists across EMEA and APJ. You will be responsible for driving the strategy and execution to achieve Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) target for our Observability and Cyber Resilience solutions. This is a strategic leadership role focused on developing your team, fostering a culture of success, and accelerating the adoption of NetApp's innovative data services within large enterprise accounts. Your guidance will be critical in helping customers modernize their data management and protection strategies, enabling them to solve complex business challenges through our cutting-edge hybrid cloud solutions. Key Responsibilities Lead and mentor a geographically dispersed sales team of 10 specialists in the EMEA and APJ regions. Develop and implement a comprehensive sales strategy to achieve and exceed the $50M ARR target. Conduct regular pipeline reviews, deliver accurate revenue forecasts, and ensure disciplined sales execution across the team. Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture, providing coaching and professional development for your team members. Oversee the development and execution of territory plans to drive growth in enterprise accounts. Guide the team in using a consultative, solution-selling approach to identify and solve customer challenges. Engage directly with key customer executives and participate in strategic deal negotiations for large, complex opportunities. Develop and maintain executive relationships with key partners, including hyperscalers and channel partners, to drive co-sell opportunities. Collaborate with NetApp account teams and partner managers to create and execute joint go-to-market strategies that expand our footprint in key accounts. Act as the primary liaison between your sales team and internal departments, including Sales Engineering, Product Management, Legal, and Marketing. Champion the needs of your team and customers, ensuring seamless cross-functional support to close deals and ensure customer success. Required Qualifications 10 years of experience in enterprise technology sales, with a significant portion in a leadership or management capacity. Demonstrated success in leading sales teams to meet or exceed multi-million dollar revenue targets, preferably in a SaaS or recurring revenue model. Strong domain knowledge in one or more of the following areas: data protection, cyber resilience, cloud infrastructure, or observability. Proven ability to manage complex sales cycles and negotiate large-scale enterprise agreements. Experience leading teams across multiple regions and cultivating a strong, remote-first culture. Exceptional communication, presentation, and leadership skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a team. Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience. At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process. Equal Opportunity Employer: NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification. Why You'll Thrive at NetApp At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure. NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security. Our culture We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do. If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now. Submitting an Application To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application. AI Disclosure For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.