דרושים Regional Acct Manager - Czech Republic ב-Fortinet ב-Czechia, Prague

Your Goals

• Maximize the Fortinet opportunity coverage and brand awareness within the retail, commercial and manufacturing organizations
• Utilize your relationship-building skills to establish and expand a robust network of profitable relationships and alliances with a variety of distributors, integrators, re-sellers and consulting houses
• Successfully achieve regional sales targets

About you

• Strong experience in Czech market, for Cybersecurity or IT products and services.
• passionate and driven person to succeed in every challenge
• Enjoy building relationships, motivate, educate, enable, train the channel partner community
• Eye for detail and exceptional communicator able to actively listen, coach, and mentor others
• Drive and uphold Fortinet valuations using quarterly business reviews with new and existing partners
• Proven track record of meeting and exceeding targets and quotas
• Proficiency with data evaluation, forecasting, budgeting and ability to plan and manage resources

What we offer?

• Competitive basic salary, uncapped commission with progressive multiplicators, employee stock and stock awards, health and welfare benefits.
• Flexible working approach, this is a field-based role, you can operate from anywhere in Czech rep.
• Empowering and supportive working environment, where you can be yourself
• Innovative, collaborative and dynamic company with a double-digit growth over the last decade.
• Training on the job with many other formal trainings and industry recognized certifications.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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 a distinct advantage

With us you will

• Lead all technical aspects of a sales cycle with the customer, from the initial RFIs, through to RFPs & RFQs when required. This includes the project management and active participation in POCs in partnership with the relevant teams both internally and within the customer and/or commercial partner.
• Have the ability to listen and to understand the technical requirements of the customer, reading between the lines to build a solution, which outperforms the competitor offering.
• Be the primary technical point of contact for the customer(s) and partners 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 customer, 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 experience is maintained.
• Maintain accurate activity, contact, and account technical information of all customers and prospects in our CRM (Salesforce).

Apply if you

• Have a high aptitude for security technology, specifically encryption, authentication, with further knowledge of network security, intrusion detection, anti-virus, routing, switching, LAN and WAN being desirable. The CISSP accreditation would also be beneficial.
• 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 organisation.
• Understand and can demonstrate your ability to build and maintain customer relationships, including your ability to effectively communicate technically to a range of both external and internal stakeholders.
• Have a strong understanding of RADIUS, PKI, IKE, Certificates, L2TP, IPSEC, FIREWALL, 802.1Q, MD5, SSH, SSL, SHA1, DES, 3DES
• Are native Czech speaker or an individual possessing Czech language proficiency at an equivalent level.

What you can expect from us

• Excellent training and development opportunities, providing you with all the tools you need to be successful.
• An open working environment, sharing knowledge and information collaboratively and transparently, with respect to everyone’s thoughts and opinions.
• The opportunity to be part of an innovative, collaborative and winning team.
• A competitive salary and incentive compensation package, including stock awards, health and welfare benefits.

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.

The Role

In this key role, you will manage and influence customers in their adoption and Go-To-Market strategy to deploy Security Access Service Edge (SASE). You will implement and execute a successful plan focused on attaining the expected revenue growth and reinforce the Fortinet footprint in adding SASE to their portfolio. You will develop executive relationships with key decisions makers in our key Enterprise, SPs/MSSPs and leverage these relationships to influence decisions in our favor and keep our leadership a step ahead. You will coordinate with various appropriate internal and external groups to achieve your goals and manage this value chain.

Your Responsibilities

• Exceed expected growth and Revenue quotas
• Define the successful go to market plan aligned with the company strategy and goals
• Maximize Fortinet opportunity while providing value added solutions for Large Enterprises, SPS & MSSPs
• Enable the Enterprise, SPs and MSSPS field rep
• Develops relationships with key decision makers, influencers and partners up to CxO levels
• Travels within assigned territory is required

What do we expect you to bring?

• Extensive experience in technology sales and/or business development
• Proven ability to sell solutions to Large Enterprises, SPs & MSSPs
• Very good understanding of Large Enterprises, SPs environments as well as Enterprise architecture and digital transformation
• A proven track record of significant over-quota achievement and demonstrated career stability
• Experience in closing large deals
• Able to present and communicate to large audience with a good level of influence
• Excellent presentation skills to executives & individual contributors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Act as a team player

What you can expect from us

• Excellent training and development opportunities, providing you with all the tools you need to be successful.
• An open working environment, sharing knowledge and information collaboratively and transparently, with respect to everyone’s thoughts and opinions.
• The opportunity to be part of an innovative, collaborative and winning team.
• A market competitive salary package, including stock awards, and opportunity to over-achieve.

At Fortinet you will

• Learn and demonstrate a fundamental understanding of Fortinet’s technology in order to articulate our value proposition to decision-makers.
• Develop strong relationships with customer contacts up to Executive C-level to gain insight into their business imperatives and IT drivers, enabling development of a strategy to sell Fortinet solutions.
• Sell Fortinet products and services through a consultative selling approach and maintain good relationships with key individuals within the accounts.
• Research customers, identify decision makers, educate prospects and qualify buying interest and sense of urgency.
• Create and implement strategic account plans through a consultative selling approach focused on attaining enterprise-wide deployments of Fortinet products and services
• Develop strategies and orchestrate company resources to maximize sales volume within assigned accounts.
• Effectively engage and build cooperative relationships with System Engineers, Channel Managers, and specialist sales team and executives as required.
• Drive quarterly business reviews with customer to ensure value from Fortinet investment.
• Ensures the customer is kept up to date with Fortinet product roadmaps enabling the customer to plan and mitigate risks to their business.

Apply if you

• Have a proven track record of selling into the SMB sector in the hi-tech industry (preferably Cybersecurity and Networking) and developing strategic customer relationships.
• Possess a consistent track record of quota (over) achievement and demonstrated both career stability and growth.
• Are a highly motivated self-starter with a competitive personality, strong attention to detail, and a hunger to win.
• Have exceptional communication skills, both oral and written, coupled with excellent listening skills.
• Have demonstrable knowledge of the public administration and state administration environment in the Czech Republic.
• Fluent in Czech

At Fortinet you will

• Learn and demonstrate a fundamental understanding of Fortinet’s technology in order to articulate our value proposition to decision-makers.
• Develop strong relationships with customer contacts up to Executive C-level to gain insight into their business imperatives and IT drivers, enabling development of a strategy to sell Fortinet solutions.
• Sell Fortinet products and services through a consultative selling approach and maintain good relationships with key individuals within the accounts.
• Research customers, identify decision makers, educate prospects and qualify buying interest and sense of urgency.
• Create and implement strategic account plans through a consultative selling approach focused on attaining enterprise-wide deployments of Fortinet products and services
• Develop strategies and orchestrate company resources to maximize sales volume within assigned accounts.
• Effectively engage and build cooperative relationships with System Engineers, Channel Managers, and specialist sales team and executives as required.
• Drive quarterly business reviews with customer to ensure value from Fortinet investment.
• Ensures the customer is kept up to date with Fortinet product roadmaps enabling the customer to plan and mitigate risks to their business.

Apply if you

• You have demonstrable knowledge of the banking and insurance vertical environment
• Have a proven track record of enterprise sales experience in hi-tech industry (preferably Cybersecurity and Networking) developing strategic customer relationships.
• Possess a consistent track record of quota (over) achievement and demonstrated both career stability and growth.
• Are a highly motivated self-starter with a competitive personality, strong attention to detail, and a hunger to win.
• Have exceptional communication skills, both oral and written, coupled with excellent listening skills.
• Are fluent in Czech

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.