Commercial Sales Representative

DigiCert
DigiCert

Sales & Business Development

Cape Town, South Africa

Posted on Jul 16, 2026

Who we are

DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at www.digicert.com

Job summary

We are in the market for a Commercial Sales Representative to join our salesforce in Cape Town.

As Commercial Sales Representative you will drive renewal strategy, proactively build relationships, deliver business outcomes, mitigate risk & churn, and deliver insights.

What you will do

  • Drive Renewal Strategy – Develop and execute retention strategies as part of the customer success plan for accounts
  • Proactively Build Relationships – Build and maintain relationships with key decision-makers and Customers to influence adoption and customer success
  • Supporting Customers - Guide Customers and customers to support channels available as part of the value DigiCert provides
  • Delivering Business Outcomes – Define business outcomes and orchestrate a success plans inclusive of customer priorities, milestones, risks and metrics
  • Mitigating Risk and Churn – Interpret and act on usage information focusing on “at risk” customers to mitigate churn and identify value optimization opportunities
  • Enabling Customers and Customers – Demonstrate and educate Customers and customers on relevant functionality and content resulting in increased adoption
  • Delivering Insights - Promote insights relevant to customers’ workflow and act as a voice of the customer internally, feeding back their experiences

What you will have

  • 3+ years of experience managing full sales cycle (inside or field sales) in the software space (essential)
  • Ability to effectively navigate objections and challenges toward a win-win outcome and renewal
  • Experience in transactional sales; high velocity
  • Excellent time management skills
  • Strong ability to collaborate with internal operational and account management teams
  • Experience facilitating customer meetings and presenting to an audience in a concise, inspirational and convincing manner
  • Strong Presentation skills (both verbal & written) and interpersonal skills; ability to organize and execute a sales plan; ability to use
  • A curious nature with a desire to learn and a competitive spirit
  • Action-oriented mentality – loves to get things done!

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, including uncapped commission (role-dependent)
  • Achievers Club awards and performance-based incentives
  • Pension and retirement benefits (location dependent)
  • Life insurance and income protection coverage
  • Comprehensive health and wellness support, including medical coverage (where applicable), gym reimbursement, and mental wellbeing resources
  • Employee Assistance Program with 24/7 confidential support for employees and their families
  • Generous paid time off, including holidays and additional leave options
  • Family-friendly leave policies, including maternity, paternity, and other supportive leave programs
  • Education assistance and professional development opportunities
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning and continuous learning resources
  • Employee referral bonus program and additional company perks and discounts
  • Business travel insurance and global employee support programs

To protect candidate information and maintain a secure hiring process, all applications must be submitted through our careers portal. Resumes or CVs sent directly via email will not be reviewed or considered.

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