National Channel Account Manager jobs at Fortinet in United States, Denver

In this key role, you will manage and drive direct sales engagements into the Enterprise vertical and strategic partners. Your focus will be to create and implement strategic account plans focused on attaining enterprise-wide 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.

Responsibilities:

• Generating Enterprise 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.

Required Skills

• Proven ability to sell solutions to the Enterprise vertical.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Named Account Manager is required to customarily and regularly work outside of their office or home office engaged in selling, including travel as needed to make a sale.

Education

• BS or equivalent experience

As a Major Accounts Manager, you will:

• Play an integral role in new business pitches, foster long-term relationships, act as a catalyst in negotiating business terms to achieve enterprise-wide deployments of Fortinet solutions and deliver meaningful results for all parties involved.
• Effectively on-board new clients and proactively focus on growing and developing existing accounts.
• Generate a robust sales pipeline, qualify opportunities, and provide accurate forecasts.
• Collaborate with internal teams to deliver contract bids, proposals, RFI/RFP responses, and Statements of Work that reflect our commitment to excellence.
• Travel throughout the territory to support the needs of the business.

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

• Experience in selling enterprise network security solutions and services to large and complex organizations
• Ability to move deals through the sales cycle, with a proven record of accomplishment of closing large deals and exceeding targets
• Strong presentation, influencing, and cultural fluency skills effective for executive audiences
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• 8+ years of experience selling to Major Enterprise Accounts
• 2+ years of experience selling enterprise network security products and services
• The Major Account Manager is required to customarily and regularly work outside of their office or home office engaged in selling, including travel as needed to make a sale.

Education

• BS or equivalent experience

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds and identities to apply. We offer a supportive work environment and a competitive Total Rewards package to support you with your overall health and financial well-being.

Embark on a challenging, enjoyable, and rewarding career journey with Fortinet. Join us in bringing solutions that make a meaningful and lasting impact to our 660,000+ customers around the globe. The Major Account Manager is required to customarily and regularly work outside of their office or home office engaged in selling, including travel as needed to make a sale.

Wage ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, and job level. On target earnings for this position is expected to be $314,000 - $349,000 per year. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate's subject knowledge, skill level, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and leverage existing relationships at WWT.
• Build revenue and non revenue business plans with the partner
• Provide ongoing sales and technical trainings
• Must have a deep understanding of the partner's business and help the partner align mutual goals and KPIs to manage their business.
• Build marketing plans to drive incremental sales pipeline and revenues with market development funds
• Act as key channel strategist to regional sales managers within region
• Partner with Fortinet marketing and engineering teams to drive revenue growth
• Carry quarterly and annual revenue targets
• The CAM is required to spend more than 50% of their time outside of their office or home office engaged in selling, including travel as needed to make a sale.

Required Skills

• 8+ years channel sales management and experience in networking or security sectors
• Experience working with and managing the partnership with WWT.
• Experience building and executing on business and marketing plans with partner
• Must have experience in delivering sales trainings and experience in working in a fast pace environment with revenue responsibilities
• Excellent presentation skills to executives & individual contributors
• Excellent communication skills: communication is clear, concise, and convincing, whether verbal or written.
• Must be able to read people and connect meaningfully with various personalities. Has the ability to "read the room" and adjust accordingly.
• Candidate must be able to lead a team and direct change when necessary. The CAM can respectfully challenge the status quo and provide data when required.
• Competitive, self-starter, must be proactive and have a no excuse mindset and work in a fast-paced environment
• College or University degree preferred

Wage ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, and job level. On target earnings for this position is expected to be $237,500 - $307,300 per year. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate's subject knowledge, skill level, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Required Skills

• Experienced sales professional that is Creative, Collaborative and Determined to win
• Excels at cultivating relationships within the highest levels of the organization
• Minimum eight + years prior channel sales experience a must.
• Previous experience designing Partner Business and Marketing plans
• Excellent presentation skills required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A self-motivated, independent thinker who understands the Enterprise customer segment
• Ability to sell complex Solutions with Services including but not limited to;
  • Firewall, Cloud, SASE, SDWAN, NAC, IoT, OT
• A proven track record of quota achievement and demonstrated career stability
• The Channel Account Manager, Nationals is required to customarily and regularly work outside of their office or home office engaged in selling, including travel as needed to make a sale.

Wage ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, and job level. On target earnings for this position is expected to be $205,100 - $265,400 per year. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate's subject knowledge, skill level, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Responsibilities:

• Meet or exceed all assigned quotas and targets while forecasting weekly, monthly and quarterly revenues for the assigned account set and overall territory
• Meet or exceed the required number of face-to-face meetings each month with customers and partners in territory to identify new opportunities and grow existing opportunities.
• Full participation in all team activities for enablement, forecasting, partner updates, partner sales efforts and recognition.
• Create and track sales opportunities (leads, renewals, deal registrations and quotes in Salesforce.com)
• Address any customer satisfaction issues and/or requests in a timely manner
• Drive sales cycles to close while establishing relationships and credibility, and provide necessary presales support for prospects & customers.
• Work closely with your local Channel Account Manager (CAM) and our reseller partner network to drive deals, increase revenue, and enable channel partners’ success in the Mid-Market segment.
• Follow up on inbound, web and corporate event leads
• Accept inbound and perform outbound prospecting activities to identify new sales opportunities.
• Meet and exceed the sales activity metrics designed to make you productive and successful.
• Lead customer presentation and demos via online tools (GO TO MEETING)
• Perform ongoing analysis and report on opportunities that are supported
• Act as a liaison between partner, customers, and appropriate Fortinet team members
• 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
• Coachable and flexible
• 1+ years of field sales experience in the B2B technology space
• Working knowledge of the businesses and partners in the local territory
• Ability to run productive customer-facing and partner-facing meetings while providing timely and relevant written follow up
• A proven track record of meeting and exceeding sales quotas and targets
• Understanding of the sales cycle in conjunction with business processes internally and externally
• Ability to manage and drive sales cycles from start to finish, which includes experience with managing and forecasting individual quota
• 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
• Ability to close business while achieving a high level of customer and partner satisfaction
• Execute the role with the utmost professionalism and in a way that aligns to Fortinet’s core values
• The Regional Account Manager is required to spend more than 50% of their time outside of their office or home office engaged in selling, including travel as needed to make a sale.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Wage ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, and job level. On target earnings for this position is expected to be $154,100 - $168,200 per year. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate's subject knowledge, skill level, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.