Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent, MBA preferred., Extensive technology selling experience in network security., Proven experience managing a team and selling solutions to enterprise customers., Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills..

Key responsabilities:

Manage and motivate a team of Major Account Managers to achieve sales goals.

Develop account plans and maximize Fortinet opportunities for customers.

Build and maintain relationships with key decision makers and partners in the region.

Provide ongoing sales and technical training to partners and manage key Fortinet partnerships.

Job description

Job Description

Role: Major Accounts Management

In this key role, you will manage the entire revenue leading a team of Major Account Managers in the region. You will create and implement strategic plans focused on attaining enterprise-wide deployments of Fortinet products and services. Develop executive relationships with key buyers and influencers in Major accounts and leverage these relationships. Coordinate with appropriate internal groups to generate and deliver winning Contract Bids, Proposals, RFI/RFP Responses, and Statements of Work. Negotiate terms of business with clients to achieve win/win results that provide the basis for strong ongoing relationships. You will furthermore be responsible to build and promote the Company’s position as the worldwide leader in Unified Threat Management, specifically through the VAR community in the territory. Accountable for managing all reseller partnerships within the guidelines of Fortinet’s channel programs, spearheading new business development and successfully developing alliances with key solution provider accounts. Will motivate, educate and train the partners in the Company’s products and technologies. Expand sales with by building business plans including MDF strategy, account penetration strategy and profitability targets

Responsibilities:

Manage and motivate a team of Major Account Managers.
Develop account plans to achieve goals and exceed quota responsibility
Maximize Fortinet opportunity while providing value added solutions to customers
Serves as lead contact responsible for the flow of information to/from executive management
Works closely together with the account managers in order to maximize the primary business focus and serves as team leader responsible for the quality and success of activities in the territory
Develops relationships with key decision makers, influencers and partners
Manages effective working relationships with assigned region RSMs, Technical Sales Engineers, and Consulting Professionals
Consistently builds and delivers on an accurate territory pipeline
Travels within assigned territory is required
Manage key Fortinet partners and end users in the region
Build revenue and non-revenue business plans with these partners.
Provide ongoing sales and technical trainings to these partners.
Build marketing plans to drive incremental sales pipeline and revenues with development funds.
Act as key channel strategist to regional sales managers within region.
Partner with Fortinet marketing and engineering teams to drive revenue growth within region.
Provide geographic channel coverage for the region
Carry quarterly and annual revenue targets.

Required Skills:

Extensive technology selling experience
Proven experience managing a team
Proven ability to sell solutions to enterprise customers
Experience in the network security industry
A proven track record of significant over-quota achievement and demonstrated career stability
Experience in closing large deals
Selling experience must include one of the following : 1) Firewall/VPN, 2) AV 3) IDS/IDP
Excellent presentation skills to executives & individual contributors
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Goal oriented individual, with vast interpersonal managerial skills, strong business acumen and positive leadership abilities with proven results in mentoring, motivating and developing teams.

Education:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent, MBA preferred.

Fortinet

From the start, the Fortinet vision has been to deliver broad, truly integrated, high-performance security across the IT infrastructure. Today, we secure the largest enterprises, service providers and government organizations around the world.

Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network – today and into the future. We have proven to be a truly innovative technology driven network security company with over 619 registered Global Patents. This is over 3 times more than our closest most innovative competitor!

About Us

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks number one in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 500,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses.

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