Channel Sales Acct Manager Enterprise - jobs at Fortinet in Spain, Madrid

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.

you will:

• Generate enterprise business opportunities and managing the sales process through to closure of the sale.
• Achieve of agreed quarterly sales goals.
• Generate a sales pipeline, qualifying opportunities, and accurately forecast pipeline.

An insightful and influential collaborator to join our team. We encourage you to apply for this position if you have the following qualities:

• Proven ability to sell solutions to Fortune 2000 Major Accounts.
• A proven track record of quota achievement and demonstrated career stability
• Experience in closing large deals.
• Excellent presentation skills to executives & individual contributors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A self-motivated, independent thinker that can move deals through the selling cycle
• Minimum 8 years sales experience selling to Fortune 2000 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, Hunter-type mentality.

Madrid, Spain

In this key role, you will manage and drive direct sales engagements into mid-size enterprise accounts and strategic partners in an assigned territory. Your focus will be to create and implement account plans focused on attaining deployments of Fortinet products and services. Develop executive relationships with key buyers and influencers and leverage these during the sales process. 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:

• Generating business opportunities and managing the sales process through to closure of the sale.
• Achievement of agreed quarterly sales goals.
• Generate a sales pipeline, qualifying opportunities, and accurately forecast pipeline.

An insightful and influential collaborator to join our team. We encourage you to apply for this position if you have the following qualities:

• Proven ability to sell solutions to mid-size enterprise accounts.
• A proven track record of quota achievement and demonstrated career stability
• Experience in closing large deals.
• Excellent presentation skills to executives & individual contributors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A self-motivated, independent thinker that can move deals through the selling cycle
• Minimum 5 years sales experience selling to mid-size enterprise accounts.
• Minimum 3 years selling network security products and services.
• Candidate must thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
• Competitive, Self-starter, Hunter-type mentality.

Education:

• BS or equivalent experience, graduate degree preferred

We encourage applications from diverse backgrounds and identities.

As a Major Account Manager, you will:

• Generate enterprise business opportunities and managing the sales process through to closure of the sale.
• Achieve of agreed quarterly sales goals.
• Generate a sales pipeline, qualifying opportunities, and accurately forecast pipeline.

An insightful and influential collaborator to join our team. We encourage you to apply for this position if you have the following qualities:

• Proven ability to sell solutions to Fortune 2000 Major Accounts.
• A proven track record of quota achievement and demonstrated career stability
• Experience in closing large deals.
• Excellent presentation skills to executives & individual contributors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A self-motivated, independent thinker that can move deals through the selling cycle
• Minimum 8 years sales experience selling to Fortune 2000 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, Hunter-type mentality.

you will:

• Generate enterprise business opportunities and managing the sales process through to closure of the sale.
• Achieve of agreed quarterly sales goals.
• Generate a sales pipeline, qualifying opportunities, and accurately forecast pipeline.

An insightful and influential collaborator to join our team. We encourage you to apply for this position if you have the following qualities:

• Proven ability to sell solutions to Fortune 2000 Major Accounts.
• A proven track record of quota achievement and demonstrated career stability
• Experience in closing large deals.
• Excellent presentation skills to executives & individual contributors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A self-motivated, independent thinker that can move deals through the selling cycle
• Minimum 8 years sales experience selling to Fortune 2000 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, Hunter-type mentality.

As Technical Account Manager you will develop a deep understanding about the customerneeds and challenges.

• Develop a deep understanding about the customer business/technical needs to provide
technical information, guidance and support
• Become a trusted advisor by proactively guide your customers with technical
recommendations and best practices
• Run advanced troubleshooting on the full range of Fortinet products, reproduce customer
environments on lab equipment, recommend potential new solutions
• Take initiatives and ownership of customer incidents to drive for timely resolutions
• Manage customer communications and expectations until the closure of each case
• Participate in customer conference calls or face to face customer meetings
• Produce service reports to summarize service activity and performance for key
stakeholders
• Report Software/Hardware related issues to R&D department and assure follow-up

Skills and Attributes Requirements:
• Good understanding of data networking protocols, specifically TCP/IP, routing and
switching
• Hands-on experience on security products and technologies (e.g. Firewalls, IDS/IPS,
DDos, VPN, Web application Firewall)
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• Face to face and remote customer management experience
• Previous experience in a technical support position with telco or large enterprise space.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Previous experience on Fortinet products is an advantage
Educational and Experience Requirements:
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in a technical support/post-sales role
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field, or an
equivalent experience.
•Fortinet certification FCP, FCSS, FCX is a distinct advantage (OR A VALID NSE4/7/7)

Must be fluent in Spanish and English

Office based (Madrid)

you will:

• Establish productive, professional relationships with key personnel in assigned Silver and Gold level partner accounts
• Build a plan for partner enablement and training in assigned territory for key partners
• Coordinates the involvement of company personnel, including support, service and management resources in order to meet partner performance objectives and partner’s expectations
• Assume full responsibility for accurate sales forecasting by demonstrating an in-depth knowledge of sales cycle and update SalesForce accordingly
• Meet and exceed sales quotas and revenue goals
• Proactively leads a joint partner planning process that develops mutual performance objectives, critical milestones (e.g. training certification) in conjunction with Distribution resources (sales, support, etc)
• Ability to work in a high volume low-end and mid-market sector
• Manages potential channel conflict by fostering excellent communication internally and externally and through strict adherence to Fortinet’s channel program guidelines
• Drives sales of new technology adoption in assigned territory
• Proactively recruits new qualifying partners

An insightful and influential collaborator to join our team. We encourage you to apply for this position if you have the following qualities:

• 3+ years channel sales and territory management in networking or security sectors
• Experience building business and marketing plans with partners
• Experience with the Distribution channel model
• Experience in sales forecasting, opportunity identification and drive to close
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and able to speak English fluently
• Excellent presentation skills
• Candidate must thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
• Competitive, self-starter, team player