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