Business Development Representative - Fluent Dutch Required jobs at Fortinet in Netherlands, Utrecht

Role Overview:

We are seeking upbeat, focused and well-organized individuals, to help us in achieving our future goals and 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 opportunity 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-paced environment
• Able to work independently as well as part of a team.

The majority of this role will be working with the relevant account teams in building the exposure and opportunities within the OT Portfolio.

• Sales Specialist part of the Dutch Sales Team
• Understand the OT portfolio that Fortinet has to offer.
• Work on Sales Plans with the sales teams to understand relevant opportunities.
• Responsible for consolidating and reporting customer service needs across Nordics
• Achievement of agreed quarterly sales goals.
• Assist the Major account managers across the business in qualifying OT opportunities.
• Report sales activity across Nordics and help accurately forecast pipeline.
• Participate in seminars and customer meetings.

Increasing Brand Awareness

The individual will be required to assist the sales teams in presenting to customers to increase credibility and confidence for Fortinet OT Services The role will not include account management responsibilities but will include opportunity assistance on a case by case basis.

Channel and Partner Training

Sales training for Partners and Resellers will be on an as required basis. This will be Sales training to assist the partners in identifying and qualifying opportunities.

Job Experience Required:

• Experience within OT

• A proven track record of quota achievement and demonstrated career stability

• Excellent presentation skills at all levels.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• A self-motivated, independent thinker who can move deals through the selling cycle

• 5-8 years sales experience selling to Fortune 1000 Major Accounts.

• Minimum 3 years selling enterprise network security products and services.

• Candidate must thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.

• Competitive, Self-starter, adaptive in an overlay organization.

Over time, there will be more and more Fortinet partners/customers whom have legacy infrastructure to run their workloads, but want to transform into the new agile, digital world. To ensure there is a stronger “pull” towards new world over legacy (ensuring long term customer/journey and revenues), we would need a BDM whose primary focus is on the digital world but also has legacy world experience. From an outside perspective, this will look smooth and consistent to our partners/customers/prospects.

• Overall sales/technical expertise
• Has held various roles across numerous sectors and consultancy experience desirable
• Success track record in growing business in an international IT vendor
• Whilst big organization experience is desirable for our high growth ambition, we require other more important factors relating to a new, digital world BDM role: in our mind, a BDM whom specializes in Cloud and everything encapsulating
  the new, digital world must possess the following skills/experience/qualities because they will be engaging with our future partner/prospects/customers and selling the future digital vision:
• Qualified and expertise in a public cloud such as AWS or Azure or GCP and most importantly, understand new world approach to fault tolerance, resilient architectures (high availability, fail over, DR) etc..;
• Understanding of modern methodologies and movements such as: design thinking, agile and lean business models as this is even more important to partners/customers and proposals;
• Understanding of current and in future technologies such as: AI such as machine learning, container security etc…;
• Experience in big complex digital transformations
• Understand Innovation, how to enable innovation (different approach for each partner/customer) and how this leads to differentiation and market disruption

Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Lead the development of an effective portfolio business plan outlining the strategy for success and maximising revenues.
• Responsible for ensuring partner/customer satisfaction is maintained at the highest levels.
• Develop account plans that focus on client relationship development and account growth/retention within install base and net new customers/partners.
• Find and develop profitable new accounts and business opportunities within a channel driven mentality.
• Manage and develop a long-term sustainable pipeline of new deals, into both install base and net new parterns/customers.
• Map, build and deploy a long term relationship with the Public Cloud Vendors (Microsoft, Google, AWS, Oracle, Alibaba…)
• Achieve the revenue targets set out, build pro-active plans generating pipeline.
• Maintain close knowledge of the client’s business and Fortinets’ service portfolio to ensure alignment of appropriate up selling and cross selling of Fortinet solutions.
• Produce workable quarterly/annual business and activity plans for the region and/or market segment and develop profit improvement plans to justify the value of our solutions/services to our partners/customers.
• Record and maintain all relevant information regarding partner/customers and contacts, prospects and suspects in Salesforce.
• Ensure full communication of Fortinets’ sales & marketing objectives to all partners/customers/accounts.
• Ensure that the public cloud sales pipeline model is kept updated by providing timely and accurate forecasting and pipeline information.
• Develop and maintain partner/customer relationships at multiple levels including problem solving and formulation of response to immediate and future partner/customer requirements.
• Works with third party advisory organisations and attends third party vendor meetings.
• Prepare and deliver sales proposals and presentations.
• Prepare partner/customer/ alliance or account planning documents for specific services and solutions.

Skills/Experience

• Minimum 5-year demonstrable record of accomplishment in selling complex outsourcing and managed service solutions to the enterprise and mid-market within a channel driven mentality
• Strong understanding of workspace, cloud and managed service solutions.
• Proven track record of winning, leading and implementing complex deals
• Experience selling solutions incorporating cloud, connectivity and technologies.
• Ability to construct innovative deals that play to Fortinets’ strengths, both meeting and exceeding client expectations.
• Understanding of organisational navigation: ability to get things done in a complex environment both externally and internally.
• Strong problem solving and negotiating skills at Director level.
• Strong planning and organisation skills, and compelling presentation skills.
• Be used to working in high pressure environments, on your own and as part of a team.
• Broad understanding of the Information Technology marketplace.
• A proven network of senior level (Director and above) contacts
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to build trust and long-term relationships within the client organisation.
• Proactive change agent, able to understand both the client’s and Fortinets’ business requirements to achieve a win-win outcome.

Qualification/Certification requirements

• Graduate level (preferred) or through proven experience / reference
• Appropriate Sales and negotiation abilities
• Project Management experience would be beneficial.

Experience:0-3 Years

Hybrid(3 days on-site/ 2 days remote)

As a BDR, you will:

• Learn and demonstrate a fundamental understanding of Fortinet’s technology in order to articulate our value proposition to decision-makers, as well as being able to successfully manage and overcome objections.
• Research customers, identify decision makers, educate prospects and qualify buying interest and sense of urgency.
• Prospecting into multiple organizations via calling, networking and e-mail, with the help of cutting-edge digital platforms for intent based leads such as Bombora and 6Sense, and contact discovery using LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Discover.org, and other digital tools and Internet sources, to build and maintain a high-quality lead pipeline.
• Schedule well qualified appointments with key decision makers within targeted companies.
• Meet and exceed daily and weekly call goals, as well as deliver a high quantity of well qualified sales opportunities.
• Maintain accurate activity, contact, and account information of all customers and prospects in our CRM (Salesforce).
• Work closely with Sales, Marketing and other Fortinet business functions in the development of strategic sales approaches.

Requirements:

• Self-starter with positive and energetic phone skills, excellent listening skills, strong writing and presentation skills
• Excellent organization skills, attention to detail, customer focus, and highly data-driven are musts Basic knowledge in IT or cybersecurity
• Ability to work in a high-energy sales team environment; phenomenal and collaborative teammate
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities

What you can expect from us:

• On the job and more formal online training and development opportunities, with the possibility to get the industry recognized certifications.
• A competitive salary and incentive compensation package, including stock awards, health and welfare benefits.
• An excellent role to start a career in enterprise technology sales, with opportunities to get involved with marketing, technology operations and sales
• Employee days to meet and learn about our key sponsorships and events