Major Account Manager
Chicago, ILFull-time$220–280K/yrPosted 6 days agoStill listed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The Major Account Manager will drive direct sales into major enterprise accounts and develop strategic account plans to secure enterprise-wide deployments of Fortinet products and services. The role builds executive relationships, coordinates bids and proposals with internal teams, and negotiates business terms. It also manages sales opportunities through closure, achieves quarterly sales goals, and generates and forecasts pipeline.
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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 offers employees a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k), 11 paid holidays, vacation time, and sick time as well as a comprehensive leave program. Wage ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, and job level. On target earnings for this position is expected to be $220,000 - $280,000 per year. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate's subject knowledge, skill level, qualifications, experience, and geographic location. All roles are eligible to participate in the Fortinet equity program, and this position is also eligible for commissions based on the terms of the Sales Compensation Plan 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.
How this job compares
Set against the 5,111 open Enterprise Sales jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$220–280K/yr
- Illinois median$139–194K/yr157 salary ranges
- US median$140–204K/yr4,106 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $250K, is 49% above the Illinois median midpoint ($168K) — in the top quarter of Enterprise Sales salary ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 190 open Enterprise Sales jobs in Illinois and 5,111 across the US. 22% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Enterprise Sales postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (4,350 postings).
- Education
- 372 of the 5,111 open Enterprise Sales jobs (7%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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