As a Business Development Manager, you will:
- Establish productive, professional relationships with key personnel in assigned Silver and Gold level partner accounts.
- Build a plan for partner enablement and training in assigned territory for key partners.
- Coordinate the involvement of company personnel, including support, service and management resources in order to meet partner performance objectives and partner’s expectations.
- Assume full responsibility for accurate sales forecasting by demonstrating an in-depth knowledge of sales cycle and update SalesForce accordingly.
- Meet and exceed sales quotas and revenue goals.
- Proactively lead a joint partner planning process that develops mutual performance objectives, critical milestones (e.g. training certification) in conjunction with Distribution resources (sales, support, etc).
- Have the ability to work in a high volume low-end and mid-market sector.
- Manage potential channel conflict by fostering excellent communication internally and externally and through strict adherence to Fortinet’s channel program guidelines.
- Drive sales of new technology adoption in assigned territory.
- Proactively recruit new qualifying partners.
An insightful and influential collaborator to join our team. We encourage you to apply for this position if you have the following qualities:
- 7+ years channel sales and territory management in networking or security sectors.
- Experience building business and marketing plans with partners.
- Experience in managing alliances and global vendors.
- Experience in Cloud solutions and specifically public cloud vendors.
- Experience in sales forecasting, opportunity identification and drive to close.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and able to speak English fluently.
- Excellent presentation skills.