Fortinet

Regional Account Manager, SLED

Reposted 2 Months Ago

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Hiring Remotely in Washington, DC, USA

In-Office or Remote

Junior

Security • Software • Cybersecurity

The Role

Field sales role responsible for prospecting, building and managing a territory pipeline, meeting quotas, running customer and partner meetings, coordinating with channel partners, creating and tracking opportunities in Salesforce, and delivering presentations and demos to close deals.

Summary Generated by Built In

The Regional Account Manager (RAM) is an exciting new role within the Fortinet sales organization. The RAM is a field sales position responsible for a specific set of business within their territory. The RAM will create and execute an account plan from prospecting to building and maintaining a constant revenue pipeline. Fortinet will provide initial onboarding education to begin your career. Once completed, you will be assigned an individual territory and quota and given ongoing enablement and coaching to achieve the highest levels of success. Success in the RAM role provides many options in the overall career path at Fortinet.

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 Mid-Market 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 (GO TO MEETING)
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
1+ 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
Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
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 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.

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

About Us

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks number one in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 500,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

Fortinet is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity in our company, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, military/veteran status or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

Skills Required

Bachelor's degree
Coachable and flexible
1+ 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 and provide timely written follow up
Proven track record of meeting and exceeding sales quotas and targets
Understanding of the sales cycle and related business processes
Ability to manage and drive sales cycles from start to finish, including forecasting individual quota
Self-driven with ability to manage a diverse, high-volume workload
Ability to quickly build productive relationships in a fast-paced environment
Be computer savvy
Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
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 high customer and partner satisfaction
Execute the role professionally and align to company core values
Spend more than 50% of time outside office engaged in selling (travel as needed)
Public/private cloud experience
Experience with multi-tier distribution
Experience in networking, security and/or public/private cloud

Fortinet Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fortinet and has not been reviewed or approved by Fortinet.

Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity in the form of stock awards and RSUs is highlighted as a meaningful part of total compensation and one of the package’s strongest advantages. Recognition programs may include stock, further emphasizing equity’s role in rewards.
Strong & Reliable Incentives — Performance bonuses and incentives are presented as key components of total rewards, with some roles achieving strong total compensation through these elements. Incentive opportunities are described as a major strength when included in an offer.
Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan, often with matching contributions, and broader retirement and savings programs contribute to solid financial security. These elements are positioned as competitive features of the package.