Fortinet Business Consultant - Manufacturing & Transport 

Germany, Hesse, Frankfurt 

907002153

Responsibilities:

• Create and nurture consultative relationships with the customer and its stakeholders on a technical and business level, collaborating with Product-, Services- and Solution Architect Teams to develop customer focused architectures driving industry-wide innovation.
• Lead the architectural design associated with Fortinet's technology strategy in alignment with key business drivers, solving customer business problems and market issues by creating a journey how individual projects and initiatives contribute towards that to-be future state architecture.
• Understand your customer's or vertical business strategy, success criteria, challenges, and strategic alliances and how Fortinet can demonstrate business relevance to executive stakeholders.
• Identify top opportunities and support building a business case.
• Ensure awareness of Fortinet's corporate strategy and directions for key solutions and services offerings.
• Deliver and/or support presentations to customers, as well as deliver architecture selling concept and methodology enablement to Sales, PreSales, and Fortinet partners.
• Manage and lead all technical aspects of a sales cycle from general queries to demos, RfX, and PoC’s when required. This includes project management and active participation in PoC’s in partnership with the relevant teams both internally and externally.
• Maintain solution, industry, and regulation knowledge how Fortinet can benefit from trends and differentiate from key competitors.
• Collaborate with peers, Consulting System Engineers (CSE’s), Solution Architects, System Engineering Subject Matter Experts, Professional Services and/or Partners on complex opportunities. Capture and manage customer requirements through the Consulting System Engineering Team to Product Management.

Required Skills:

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in cyber security, networking, solution architecture field experience with proven success.
• Senior customer focused, technical engineering sales professional with knowledge of customer specific business initiators and their networking and security platforms, including adjacent technology and solution areas.
• Strong collaborator, self-motivated, and a great communicator with a “whatever-it-takes” mentality and an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Proven ability to work independently and lead a team in a collaborative environment.
• Ability to interface with senior levels of internal and external organizations is required.
• Excellent verbal & written communication, presentation, prioritization, and interpersonal skills to executives and individual contributors.
• Good knowledge level in networking (LAN, WIFI, WAN, SDN, routing, switching), and network security (Next-Gen Firewalls, Intrusion Detection, encryption protocols).
• Good understanding of assigned customer's/vertical industry and its trends, influences and relevant regulations (e.g. EU-DSGVO, BDSG, NIS-2/KRITIS) at a global level with minimum foundational knowledge of
  • Datacenter architectures (e.g. ACI, NSX-T)
  • Security Architectures (e.g. Zero Trust, SASE)
  • Modern Software Architectures (e.g. DevOps, IaC)
  • Cloud Architectures with at least one public cloud specialization
  • Security Operations (e.g. Orchestration, Automation, SIEM Tools)
  • IT Security standards (e.g. BSI 200-x, ISO2700x, COBIT, NIST) and/or relevant regulations (EU-DSGVO, BDSG, NIS-2/KRITIS).
• Willingness to travel 20-50% of time.
• Experience with customers in the Manufacturing/Transportation Industry is certainly an advantage.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. Graduate degree preferred.
• Significant industry certifications (SANS, CISSP, CCIE, etc.) preferred.