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 SMB 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 (Zoom, Teams, Gong)
- 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
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills (moved up)
- 3+ 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
- 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 customarily and regularly work 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 $130,00 - $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.