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Named Account Manager-Named Enterprise

Calgary, ABOnsiteFull TimePosted 2 months ago

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Required skills

  • Mid Enterprise vertical
  • enterprise-wide deployments
  • executive relationships
  • Contract Bids
  • Proposals
  • RFI/RFP Responses
  • Statements of Work
  • quota achievement
  • closing large deals
  • ever-changing environment

Nice to have

  • BS or equivalent experience

Role summary

Fortinet is seeking a Named Account Manager for their Mid Enterprise vertical and strategic partners. This role involves creating and implementing strategic account plans to drive enterprise-wide deployments of Fortinet products and services. The Account Manager will develop executive relationships, coordinate proposal responses, and negotiate terms of business. Key responsibilities include generating business opportunities, managing the sales process, achieving sales goals, building a pipeline, qualifying opportunities, and accurate forecasting. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in enterprise sales, quota achievement, large deal closing, and experience selling network security products, with a minimum of 8 years in sales and 3 years in network security sales.

In this key role, you will manage and drive direct sales engagements into the Mid Enterprise vertical and strategic partners. Your focus will be to create and implement strategic account plans focused on attaining enterprise-wide deployments of Fortinet products and services. Develop executive relationships with key buyers and influencers and leverage these during the sales process. Coordinate with appropriate internal groups to generate and deliver winning Contract Bids, Proposals, RFI/RFP Responses, and Statements of Work. Negotiate terms of business with clients to achieve win/win results that provide the basis for strong ongoing relationships.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Generating Mid Enterprise business opportunities and managing the sales process through to closure of the sale. 
  • Achievement of agreed quarterly sales goals. 
  • Generate a sales pipeline, qualifying opportunities, and accurately forecast pipeline.

Required Skills 

  • Proven ability to sell solutions to the Mid Enterprise vertical.
  • A proven track record of quota achievement and demonstrated career stability 
  • Experience in closing large deals.
  • 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
  • Minimum 8 years sales experience.
  • Minimum 3 years selling enterprise network security products and services.
  • Candidate must thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
  • Competitive, Self-starter, Hunter-type mentality.

Education

  • BS or equivalent experience

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 accommodations@fortinet.com.   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.
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