Regional Account Manager

Posted 19hrs ago

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Regional Account Manager selling Fortinet cybersecurity solutions across North Carolina territories. Building pipelines, managing quotas, and driving channel-partner sales.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage a specific set of business within an assigned territory as a field sales representative
  • Create and execute account plans from prospecting through building and maintaining a revenue pipeline
  • Forecast weekly, monthly, and quarterly revenues for assigned accounts and territory
  • Conduct required face-to-face customer and partner meetings to identify and grow opportunities
  • Participate in team enablement, forecasting, partner updates, partner sales efforts, and recognition activities
  • Create and track leads, renewals, deal registrations, and quotes in Salesforce.com
  • Address customer satisfaction issues and requests
  • Drive sales cycles to closure, establish relationships and credibility, and provide presales support
  • Collaborate with the local Channel Account Manager and reseller partners to drive deals, increase revenue, and enable channel success in the Mid-Market segment
  • Follow up on inbound, web, and corporate event leads; conduct outbound prospecting
  • Meet sales activity metrics
  • Lead customer presentations and online demos using GoToMeeting
  • Analyze and report on supported opportunities
  • Liaise between partners, customers, and Fortinet teams
  • Perform other assigned duties and projects supporting business growth
  • Execute the role in alignment with Fortinet’s core values

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 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 with timely and relevant written follow-up
  • Proven track record of meeting and exceeding sales quotas and targets
  • Understanding of the sales cycle and internal and external business processes
  • Experience managing and forecasting an individual quota
  • Self-driven and able to manage a diverse, high-volume workload
  • Ability to build productive relationships in a fast-paced, high-performance environment
  • 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
  • Required to spend more than 50% of time outside the office or home office engaged in selling, including travel as needed
  • 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

Benefits:

  • Initial onboarding education
  • Ongoing enablement and coaching
  • Career path opportunities within Fortinet