Regional Account Manager, SLED

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 the 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 presentations and demos via online tools (GO TO MEETING).
• Perform ongoing analysis and report on opportunities that are supported.
• Act as a liaison between partners, customers, and appropriate Fortinet team members.
• Perform other duties and projects, as assigned to support the growth of our business.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Coachable and flexible.
• 1+ years of field sales experience in the B2B technology space, with a preference for experience selling to SLED accounts.
• Working knowledge of the businesses, procurement processes, and partners in the local territory, especially within the SLED sector.
• Able 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.
• Able 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.
• Able 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.
• Able to apply entrepreneurial strengths in a driven, forward-thinking manner.
• Able to close business while achieving a high level of customer and partner satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Prior experience selling cybersecurity or technology solutions to State, Local Government, and Education (SLED) accounts.
• Familiarity with government procurement processes, cooperative purchasing agreements, and budget cycles in the SLED sector.
• Public/private cloud experience is a plus.
• Experience with multi-tier distribution is a plus.
• Experience in networking, security, and/or public/private cloud is 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 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.