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Major Account Manager, Strategics

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Houston, TXFull-timePosted 2 days agoStill listed 1 day ago

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Houston, TX
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Full-time
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Job overview

The Major Account Manager manages direct sales into major enterprise accounts, creating strategic account plans to pursue enterprise-wide deployments of Fortinet products and services. The role develops relationships with executive buyers and influencers, coordinates internal teams on bids and proposals, and negotiates business terms. It also generates opportunities, manages sales through closure, meets quarterly goals, and builds and forecasts a sales pipeline.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

SalesAccount ManagementSales EnablementNegotiationPublic SpeakingInterpersonal CommunicationsStrategic PlanningEnterprise Solution SellingQuota AchievementEnterprise Deal ClosingExecutive PresentationsWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationSales Cycle ManagementEnterprise Account SalesNetwork Security SalesSelf-MotivationIndependent ThinkingResults OrientationHunter Mentality

Qualifications

Career Stability8+ Years Enterprise Sales2+ Years Network Security Sales

Full job description

In this key role, you will manage and drive direct sales into Major Enterprise Accounts. 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 in Major Enterprise Accounts 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 solid ongoing relationships.

Responsibilities:

  • Generating Major Enterprise Accounts 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 Major Enterprise customers.
  • A proven track record of quota achievement and demonstrated career stability
  • Experience in closing large Enterprise 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
  • 8+ years of experience selling to Major Enterprise Accounts
  • 2+ years of experience selling enterprise network security products and services
  • Results-oriented, Self-starter, Hunter-type mentality.
  • The Major Account Manager, Enterprise is required to customarily and regularly work outside of their office or home office engaged in selling, including travel as needed to make a sale.

Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 615,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone. In this key role, you will manage and drive direct sales into Major Enterprise Accounts. 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 in Major Enterprise Accounts 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 solid ongoing relationships.

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