Channel Account Manager - Seattle jobs at Fortinet in United States, Seattle

As a Named Accounts Manager SLED, 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

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.

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 $236,000 - $315,000 per year. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate's subject knowledge, skill level, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

You would act as the Systems Engineer for Telco and MSSP sectors.

As a Systems Engineer, you will:

• Work together with our customers to create new services/solutions for Telco/MSSP business with Fortinet products.
• Play an integral role in providing pre-sales support and technical consultancy to customers.
• Understudy customer requirements, environment and challenges and able to propose/provide security solution design and implementation solutions to clients.
• Effectively carry out presales function in solution offerings (proposal, demo, presentation, etc.).
• Actively participate in preparing tender documents and proposals, RFPs, RFIs and POC demo.
• Provide product training for Telco/MSSP customers as part of pre-sales activities.

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

• At least 5 years of experience working in Telco and MSSP space.
• Are currently or have previously worked in a pre-sales engineer role, managing end to end technical aspects of deals, through to technical closure.
• Exceptional skillset designing and building networks using Routing, Switching, VPN, SD-WAN, Firewalls.
• Have a high aptitude for security technology such as NGFW, Application Delivery, SASE, WAF, ZTNA, EDR/XDR, etc.
• Have a technical knowledge/experience of NOC/SOC solutions such as SIEM and SOAR or MNO specific solutions such as CGN, SecGW, WAAP, GTP-FW etc.
• Experience in handling lab setup and proof-of-concept (POC).
• Experience in private/public cloud deployment, such as KVM, ESXi, OpenStack, K8s, AWS, Azure, Alibaba, Google Cloud, etc.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Verbal and written communication in English and Japanese.

The NAM will drive contact and relationships with customers (new and established), meet sales objectives and targets, move prospects through the discovery and proof-of-concept phases, and meet established sales goals and quota per plan objectives. They will develop and execute strategies and sales tactics in the following areas: territory planning, outbound lead generation, relationship development, pricing, negotiations, closing, and managing contracts. You will be required to diligently track all customer interactions in our CRM system and maintain a disciplined sales process and forecast hygiene.

Role Responsibilities:

• Drive growth across Fortinet’s [
  AI-Driven SecOps | Unified SASE | CNAPP
  ] business through external customer engagement as well as enablement of regional field sales teams.
• Understand the business goals of our partners, customers, and prospects to effectively communicate our market strategy.
• Drive pipeline development of 3-5X assigned quota.
• Maintain a high level of daily activity including end-user calls, partner calls, and field sales cadence calls.
• Qualify new opportunities, overcome objections, competitively position, negotiate and close business over the phone, via Zoom and in-person.
• Learn the Fortinet products to confidently demo the platform to customers.
• Execute a highly disciplined and metric-driven sales process.
• Provide accurate sales forecasts and activity metrics in CRM.
• Maintain a high level of relevant technical & industry knowledge.
• The NAM 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.

Role Experience & Qualifications:

• BA/BS required.
• 5+ years of experience in an individual quota carrying capacity.
• Experience in a high-velocity, monthly-driven SaaS environment.
• Experience selling security and application monitoring solutions
• Experience managing the entire sales cycle from prospecting to close.
• Proven ability to independently manage, develop, and close new customers.
• Successful track record and driving consistent activity, pipeline development and quota achievement.
• Expertise in a disciplined sales process, forecasting, and qualification methodologies.
• Highly motivated, driven and self-directed individual with grit.
• Excellent communication, persuasive, and listening skills.

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 $288,700 - $320,000 per year. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate's subject knowledge, skill level, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.