Channel Account Manager - Shi Northeast jobs at Fortinet

Responsibilities:

• Manage key Fortinet partners in the MSSP Program.
• Develop and expand Fortinet footprint within these defined list of MSSP partners.
• Build revenue and non-revenue business plans with these partners.
• Provide ongoing sales and technical trainings to these partners.
• Build marketing plans to drive incremental sales pipeline and revenues with development funds.
• Act as key channel strategist to all sales managers within Fortinet.
• Partner with Fortinet marketing and engineering teams to drive revenue growth.
• Guide MSSP partners through the MSSP Offer Development program.
• Pursue new service enablement of Fortinet products within the partner’s service offering.
• Deliver quarterly and annual revenue targets.
• 50 – 60% travel required.

Required Skills

• 5+ years channel sales, business development or territory management, and ideally 3+ years direct sales role in networking or security sectors.
• Experience building business and marketing plans with partners.
• Knowledge of Managed Security Services Providers and how they operate.
• 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 written and verbal communication skills
• Candidate must thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
• Competitive, Self-starter, Hunter-type mentality.
• College or University degree required

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 $228,000 - $253,000 per year. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate's subject knowledge, skill level, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

This is role is in Frisco TX.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for QoQ revenue growth within selected partner accounts
• Must engage and support our partners in activities facilitating revenue growth
• Responsible for the onboarding and enablement of our partners on products
• Responsible for promoting and driving Marketing success within Channel community
• Responsible for understanding our partners’ business models/structures
• Responsible for qualifying and on-boarding net-new partners.
• Must manage and drive partner pipelines
• Must align activity with Field Channel Account Managers as well as Direct Selling Teams
• Must serve as first point of contact for selected partners
• Must capture mindshare within partner accounts

Required Skills:

• Experience building business with partners from an inside position
• Experience in driving revenue growth within a Channel model
• Exceptional listening skills
• Exceptional communication skills via telephone
• Experience with channel sales in networking or security sector
• Must have experience in working in a fast pace environment with revenue responsibilities.
• Excellent presentation skill
• Excellent writing skills
• 2=3 years of applicable experience

Education:

• College or University degree required

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for QoQ revenue growth within selected partner accounts
• Must engage and support our partners in activities facilitating revenue growth
• Responsible for the onboarding and enablement of our partners on products
• Responsible for promoting and driving Marketing success within Channel community
• Responsible for understanding our partners’ business models/structures
• Responsible for qualifying and on-boarding net-new partners.
• Must manage and drive partner pipelines
• Must align activity with Field Channel Account Managers as well as Direct Selling Teams
• Must serve as first point of contact for selected partners
• Must capture mindshare within partner accounts

Required Skills:

• Experience building business with partners from an inside position
• Experience in driving revenue growth within a Channel model
• Exceptional listening skills
• Exceptional communication skills via telephone
• Experience with channel sales in networking or security sector
• Must have experience in working in a fast pace environment with revenue responsibilities.
• Excellent presentation skill
• Excellent writing skills
• 2=3 years of applicable experience

Education:

• College or University degree required

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 $134,000 - $180,000 per year. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate's subject knowledge, skill level, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

As a Named Accounts Manager, you will:

• Drive direct sales engagements into a set of Named Accounts within your assigned territory.
• Create and implement territory plans to achieve deployments of Fortinet solutions to a set of assigned, existing accounts and new logo prospects, within your assigned territory.
• Develop executive relationships with key buyers and influencers and leverage these relationships to achieve quarterly sales goals.
• Coordinate with internal teams to deliver winning contract bids, proposals, RFI/RFP responses, and Statements of Work.
• Negotiate terms of business with clients to achieve mutually beneficial results and long-term partnerships.
• Build and promote the Company’s position as the worldwide leader in Unified Threat Management.

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

• Experienced Sales professional with an expert understanding of the technology business sector
• Previous experience designing business plans and market strategies to increase sales
• Experience in selling solutions
• Track record of meeting or exceeding sales quotas
• Excellent presentation skills for different audiences
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to move deals through the selling cycle
• Motivated, proactive, and results-oriented mindset
• Candidates who excel in dynamic, fast-paced environments
• Previous experience in network security and familiarity with technologies such as VPN, Firewall, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Intrusion Prevention, and Content Filtering

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.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and motivate a team of Inside Sales Representatives.
• Develop plans to expand and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the individual inside teams and processes that drive additional revenue opportunities
• Initiate and coordinate demand generation outreach with marketing department personnel
• Serve as lead contact responsible for the flow of information to/from executive management in regards to inside lead gen results to sales opportunities
• Develops relationships with key decision makers, influencers and partners in the field to ensure fluid communication in support of sales
• Consistently builds and delivers on an accurate territory pipeline
• Analyze demand creation efforts and results to consistently improve efforts

Required Skills:

• 5+ years technology selling experience managing a team
• Experience in the network security industry
• A proven track record of significant over-quota achievement and demonstrated career stability
• Selling experience must include one of the following : 1) Firewall/VPN, 2) AV 3) IDS/IDP
• Excellent presentation skills to executives & individual contributors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Goal oriented individual, with vast interpersonal managerial skills, strong business acumen and positive leadership abilities with proven results in mentoring, motivating and developing teams.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, MBA preferred.

As a key player, you will be responsible for creating and implementing strategic, cybersecurity solutions account plans, focusing on securing enterprise-wide deployments of cutting-edge Fortinet products and services. Build and nurture executive relationships, leveraging them to propel successful sales processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Generate and manage enterprise business opportunities, overseeing the entire sales process through successful closure.
• Achieve quarterly sales goals, consistently delivering on targets.
• Develop a robust sales pipeline, diligently qualifying opportunities, and providing accurate forecasts.

Required Skills:

• 5-8 years of proven sales experience, specializing in Fortune 1000 Major Accounts.
• Minimum 3 years of successful enterprise network security product and service sales.
• Track record of achieving sales quotas and maintaining career stability.
• Proficient in closing large deals.
• Exceptional presentation skills tailored to both executives and individual contributors.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-motivated, independent thinker capable of navigating deals through the selling cycle.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Competitive, self-starter with a hunter mentality.
• The Major Account Manager – Enterprise 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:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; graduate degree preferred.

The ideal candidate should have a strong Network Security background. Cloud, SASE, Application Security, OT, and SecOps experience is also desirable. Additionally, previous Reseller, MSSP and/or Vendor experience would be an asset.

• Develop and execute on joint strategy with your direct Channel Account Manager and team which is tied to your partners and Fortinet Goals.
• Collectively work with Fortinet’s teams (account sales/ technical, marketing, specialization overlays) + your partners teams (sales/ technical/ professional services, managed services, etc) to develop “go to market” offerings to address Fortinet and our partners goals.
• Focus on growing sales in Network Security and more.
• Develop and launch managed service offerings with our partners to help address the dynamic market needs
• Be the primary technical point of contact for your partners(s) in close collaboration with your sales partner.
• Continuously strive to improve knowledge around the Fortinet products and solutions, along with maintaining a deep understanding of the competitive landscape and Fortinet’s ability to provide long lasting protection against the ever-evolving threats.
• Have a strong ability to position Fortinet solutions to the partner, whether this be remotely or in person. This requires strong communication skills and the ability to confidently present through whiteboarding, technical white papers, technical plans, or customer discussions.
• Manage your time effectively when working on multiple deals simultaneously, ensuring a positive customer/partner experience is maintained.
• Provide weekly updates to Management
• Help drive technical webinars and hands-on demo’s
• Assist in training at Partner focused Training events where the target audience is technical and includes System Engineers, Solutions Architects and Professional Services
• Ability to be on the road at our partner site or after work at events as required
• Work with multiple business units within your partner from Cloud to Security, Presales to Managed Services and prioritized efforts based on joint goals

We Are Looking For:

• 5 – 8 years’ experience in technical/pre-sales support as a pre-sales engineer, solutions architect or security expert
• Ability to think outside of the box and self-motivate to drive sales
• Are currently or have previously worked in a pre-sales engineer role, managing end to end technical aspects of deals, through to technical closure.
• Can demonstrate your problem-solving skills and how this has impacted key wins within your current organization.
• Understand and can demonstrate your ability to build and maintain channel partner relationships, including your ability to effectively communicate technically to a range of both external and internal stakeholders.
• Public Speaking experience
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong communication and writing skills. Previous experience on responding to RFPs is beneficial.
• Experience explaining technology topologies via whiteboarding, Visio and other methods
• Strong understanding in the following technologies and protocols: TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, DNS, HTTP, SMTP, RADIUS, LDAP, Active Directory, PKI, IKE, Certificates, L2TP, SSL Decryption, SSL VPN, IPSEC, 802.1Q, VLANs, LACP, MD5, SSH, SSL, SHA1, SHA512, 3DES, AES
• Experience with encryption and authentication technologies required
• Strong technical troubleshooting skills desired
• Technical knowledge in Wifi, Load Balancing and Application Delivery, Ethernet Switching, ACI, API, Two Factor Auth, Malware Sandboxes, Mail Gateways, Web Application Firewalling, Cloud (AWS, Azure, etc), SDN, NFV, Virtualization, Centralized Management, SIEM, EDR, MDR, XDR, NDR, and Data Center redundancy are considered assets
• Previous Vendor or Reseller experience is an asset

Optional but not required:

• Experience in building managed service offerings

Education:

• Degree, diploma or equivalent
• Fortinet NSE certifications are an asset
• Other vendor certifications are an asset

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.