Job Description
In this key role, you will manage, direct and drive direct sales into Major Enterprise & Government Accounts. 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 Enterprise and Government accounts and leverage these relationships. You will 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 outstanding ongoing relationships.
- Manage and motivate a team of Sales Executives focused on Enterprise & Government Accounts
- Develop account plans to achieve goals and exceed quota responsibility
- Maximize Fortinet opportunity while providing value added solutions to enterprise and government institutions
- Serves as lead contact responsible for the flow of information to/from executive management
- Works closely together with the account managers to maximize the primary business focus and serves as team leader responsible for the quality and success of activities in the territory
- Develop relationships with key decision makers, influencers and partners
- Manages effective working relationships with assigned region MAMs, NAMs, Technical Sales Engineers, and Consulting Professionals
- Consistently builds and delivers on an accurate territory pipeline
- Travels within assigned territory is required
- Plenty of experience in technology selling managing 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: Firewall/VPN, SASE, SecOps and Services Solutions
- Excellent presentation skills to executives & individual contributors
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Goal oriented individuals, with vast interpersonal managerial skills, outstanding business acumen and positive leadership abilities with proven results in mentoring, motivating and developing teams.
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.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@fortinet.com.
Fortinet is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity in our company, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, military/veteran status or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
