Jobs at Fortinet in Belgium

Key Responsibilities

• Achieve and exceed revenue and growth targets
• Develop and execute go-to-market plans aligned with corporate strategy
• Drive SASE adoption among Enterprises, SPs, and MSSPs
• Enable field teams and partners with strategic support
• Build and maintain relationships with decision-makers up to CxO level
• Travel within the assigned territory as required

Qualifications

• Proven experience in technology sales or business development
• Strong track record with Large Enterprises, SPs, and MSSPs
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture and digital transformation
• Consistent over-quota performance and deal-closing expertise
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Team-oriented mindset

What We Offer

• Comprehensive training and development programs
• Collaborative and transparent work culture
• Opportunity to join an innovative and high-performing team
• Competitive compensation package including stock awards and performance incentives

With us you will

• Lead all technical aspects of a sales cycle with the Enterprise customers, from the initial RFIs, through to RFPs & RFQs when required. This includes the project management and active participation in POCs in partnership with the relevant teams both internally and within the customer and/or commercial partner.
• Have the ability to listen and to understand the technical requirements of the customer, reading between the lines to build a solution which outperforms the competitor offering.
• Be the primary technical point of contact for the customer(s) and partners in close collaboration with your sales partner.
• Continuously strive to improve knowledge around the Fortinet products and solutions, along with maintaining a deep understanding of the competitive landscape and Fortinet’s ability to provide long lasting protection against the ever-evolving threats.
• Have a strong ability to position Fortinet solutions to the customer, whether this be remotely or in person. This requires strong communication skills and the ability to confidently present through whiteboarding, technical white papers, technical plans or customer discussions.
• Manage your time effectively when working on multiple deals simultaneously, ensuring a positive customer experience is maintained.
• Maintain accurate activity, contact, and account technical information of all customers and prospects in our CRM (Salesforce).

Apply if you

• Have a high aptitude for security technology, specifically encryption, authentication, with further knowledge of network security, intrusion detection, anti-virus, routing, switching, LAN and WAN being desirable. The CISSP accreditation would also be beneficial.
• Are currently or have previously worked in a pre-sales engineer role, managing end to end technical aspects of deals, through to technical closure.
• Can demonstrate your problem solving skills and how this has impacted key wins within your current organisation.
• Understand and can demonstrate your ability to build and maintain customer relationships, including your ability to effectively communicate technically to a range of both external and internal stakeholders.
• Have a strong understanding one or multiple solutions e.g SD-WAN, ZTNA, IAM, Firewall, Switching and Wireless, SecOps, Cloud Security etc.

What you can expect from us

• Excellent training and development opportunities, providing you with all the tools you need to be successful.
• An open working environment, sharing knowledge and information collaboratively and transparently, with respect to everyone’s thoughts and opinions.
• The opportunity to be part of an innovative, collaborative and winning team.
• A competitive salary and incentive compensation package, including stock awards, health and welfare benefits.

Regional Account Manager

In this key role, you will manage, direct and drive direct sales into Commercial 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 Commercial 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.

Responsibilities:

• Develop account plans to achieve goals and exceed quota responsibility
• Maximize Fortinet opportunity while providing value added solutions to enterprise institutions
• 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 MAMs, Technical Sales Engineers, and Consulting Professionals
• Consistently builds and delivers on an accurate territory pipeline
• Travels within assigned territory is required

Required Skills:

• 5+ years technology selling 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.

With us you will

• Provide pre-sales support and OT cybersecurity expertise to field Systems Engineers.
• Design and define ICS/OT architectures using Fortinet and partner technologies.
• Deliver demos and proof-of-concepts based on OT security architectures.
• Conduct Cybersecurity Maturity Evaluations for ICS environments and Critical Infrastructure.
• Support marketing initiatives and participate in industry events.
• Assist in reviewing RFPs and technical documentation.
• Deliver training sessions for partners and customers.

Skills & Qualifications

• Highly organized, proactive, and sales-focused.
• Strong knowledge of OT cybersecurity, including ICS environments.
• Familiarity with OT devices (PLCs, IEDs, RTUs, HMIs) and systems (SCADA, DCS, Historians).
• Understanding of industry standards and models: ISA95, Purdue Model, IEC 62443.
• Technical knowledge in:
  • Networking: Routing, Switching, Firewalling
  • Security: Endpoint Protection, NDR, PAM, SIEM, SOAR
  • Encryption and authentication technologies
• Preferred certifications: CISSP, IEC 62443, ISO 27001

Role Overview:

We are seeking upbeat, focused, and well-organized individuals, to help us achieving our future goals in remaining a leader in our field, requires exceptional individuals who can share and understand our passion for success.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and qualify new lead opportunities to drive increased revenue opportunites in specific target vertical markets
• Generating prospective customers through “warm and cold calling” and lead qualification from marketing leads, telemarketing services, and web
• Build relationships with specific channel partners who are relevant to your accounts and opportunities.
• Develop end-user relationship.
• Accurate management of all leads, opportunities and associated data via the CRM tool – Salesforce.com (SFDC), and update all activity within SFDC.
• Develop, learn and communicate specific sales propositions to end user customers.
• Attainment of all set targets and achievement of KPI’s.
• Keeps up-to-date knowledge of the industry, as well as the competitive posture of the company
• Joint strategic and tactical planning with your Account Manager.
• Provide all other tasks associated with account management – arrangement of evaluations, licences, renewals and quotations to name a few.
• Provide accurate forecasting along with your Account Manager, and be able to provide a forecast of your business while your Account Manager is absent
• Manage the end to end sales cycle on all smaller opportunities, including the management of “renewals”.
• Take ownership of specific marketing campaigns which are being run for your region/accounts, utilizing the Telemarketing Team for initial calling. Be able to feedback the success to the broader sales and marketing team.
• “Stand-in” cover for when your account manager is out of the business. This will include, but not limited to forecast reviews, QBR’s and being available as the first point of contact for your accounts and channel partners.

Required Skills:

• 18 months proven sales track record within an inside sales role ideally within the IT Industry – security, networking or hardware
• SFDC/Salesforce.com knowledge advantageous
• Experience in B2B sales
• Must be motivated, a self-starter, and be able to deal with ambiguity.
• Hunter type mentality
• Excellent communications capabilities
• Goal orientated with the ability to exceed targets and KPI’s
• Self-confident with the ability to work in a fast pace environment
• Able to work independently as well as part of a team.