Business Development Representative Month Contract jobs at Fortinet in Canada, Ottawa

Responsibilities:

• Perform out-bound phone calls and emails to identify, engage and/or penetrate qualified leads from strategic accounts generated by various marketing events: lunch & learns, events, webinars and target campaigns.
• Schedule website/ in-person demonstrations, sales appointments for assigned regional account team.
• Track lead generation, engagement and performance through Salesforce.com
• Update and monitor all qualified leads converted to opportunities

Required Skills:

• Prior experience as a Business Development Representative (BDR) or in a similar role preferred.
• Experience in cybersecurity or a related industry is a plus.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Well-organized with effective time and activity-management skills.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Goal-oriented, able to meet and exceed monthly/quarterly goals.
• Confident with the ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.
• Able to work independently as well as on a team.
• Ideal candidate has interest or experience with technology sales.
• Bilingual French an asset but not required.

Education:

• BS in Business Administration or Tech related fields

Responsibilities:

• Understand sales cycles in conjunction with business processes internally and externally.
• Create and track sales opportunities (leads, renewals, deal registrations and quotes in Salesforce.com)
• Address any customer satisfaction issues / requests in a timely manner.
• Meet and exceed the sales activity metrics designed to make you productive and successful.
• Assist with customer presentations and demos via online tools Teams/Zoom
• Align with sales, channel and partner teams to support overall company revenue targets.
• Perform other duties and projects, as assigned, to support the growth or our business.
• Execute the role with the utmost professionalism and in a way that aligns to Fortinet’s core values.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience
• Coachable and flexible.
• Self-driven and able to manage a diverse, high-volume workload; Ability to quickly build productive relationships in a fast-paced, high-performance environment.
• Be computer savvy.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Well organized with effective time and activity management skills.
• Ability to apply entrepreneurial strengths in a driven, forward-thinking manner.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous sales experience a plus.
• Experience with Salesforce a plus.
• Experience with multi-tier distribution a plus.
• Experience in networking, security and/or public/private cloud a plus.