Named Account Manager, Enterprise

Fortinet Inc

Birmingham, AL

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Business Plan, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Direct Sales, Executive Relationships, Forecasting, Government Organizations, Marketing Strategy, Meet Sales Quota, Negotiation Skills, Network Operations Center, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Revenue Growth, Sales, Sales Cycle, Sales Management, Sales Pipeline, Security Infrastructure, Solution Sales, Statement of Work (SOW), Territory Development, Willing to Travel, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Birmingham, AL
POSTED
6 days ago

In this key role, you will manage and drive direct sales engagements into a set of Named Accounts within your assigned territory.

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibility will be to create and implement territory plans focused on attaining deployments of Fortinet products and services 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. Generate a sales pipeline, qualify opportunities, and accurately forecast pipeline. Coordinate with appropriate internal groups to generate and deliver winning Contract Bids, Proposals and Statements of Work. Negotiate terms of business with clients to achieve win/win results that provide the basis for solid ongoing relationships. Understanding customer business goals and effectively translating the capabilities of Fortinet to help them achieve those goals.

Required Skills

  • Fully qualified, experienced sales professional that is forward thinking and has a professional understanding of the technology business sector.
  • Minimum of 5+ years prior sales experience a must.
  • Previous experience designing business plans and market strategies to increase sales.
  • Proven ability to sell solutions.
  • A proven track record of quota achievement and demonstrated career stability
  • Excellent presentation skills to executives & individual contributors
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • A self-motivated, independent thinker that can move deals through the selling cycle
  • Results-orientated, Self-starter, Hunter-type mentality.
  • Candidate must thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
  • The Named Account Manager, Enterprise is required to spend more than 50% of their time outside of their office or home office engaged in selling, including travel as needed to make a sale.
  • Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship

Education:

  • BS or equivalent experience, graduate degree preferred

Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world's largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 615,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet's Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone.

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