Owns a territory of mid-market accounts, builds sales pipelines, forecasts revenue, meets quotas, conducts prospecting, manages sales cycles, delivers customer presentations and demos, and closes business. The role develops relationships with customers, channel partners, and resellers while addressing customer needs, tracking opportunities in Salesforce, supporting partner success, and participating in sales enablement and forecasting activities. More than 50% of time is spent outside the office or home office selling and traveling as needed.
The Named Regional Account Manager (RAM) is an exciting new role within the Fortinet sales organization that is focused on an important subset of the Mid-Market segment. The RAM is a field sales position responsible for a specific set of Mid-Market accounts while also having shared responsibility for all Mid-Market business within their territory. The ideal candidate will have previous field sales experience in the B2B technology space. 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
Similar Jobs
Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Drive direct sales into a set of regional named accounts: build territory plans, generate pipeline, qualify opportunities, forecast, develop executive relationships, close large deals, and travel as needed to support sales and deployments of Fortinet security solutions.
Top Skills:
FortinetFortinet Security FabricNetwork Security SolutionsSecurity AppliancesUnified Threat Management (Utm)
Aerospace • Hardware • Robotics • Software
Build Revel’s security program from the ground up, securing its product, infrastructure, cloud, on-premises, hardware-integrated environments, and software delivery pipelines. Responsibilities include threat modeling, security architecture, Infrastructure as Code, detection and incident response, vulnerability management, compliance with ITAR/NIST/CUI/CMMC requirements, customer security reviews, and security enablement. The role will establish foundational processes and may eventually lead a growing security team.
Top Skills:
AWSAws CdkAws GovcloudAzure GovernmentCi/CdCmmcCrowdstrikeCuiDisa StigsDockerEdrFedrampGoInfrastructure As CodeItarKubernetesLinuxNist 800-171Nist 800-53PantherPythonRmfRustSentineloneSIEMSplunkTerraform
42 Minutes Ago
Easy Apply
Easy Apply
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Hardware • Information Technology • Sales • Software • Transportation
Leads Motive’s Associate Solutions Engineering training and deployment program. Oversees bootcamp execution, curriculum improvement, assessments, coaching, mentorship, simulated sales scenarios, and field deployment. Partners with Sales, Recruiting, Product, and Product Marketing to develop early-career Solutions Engineers and improve program outcomes using performance data. Requires pre-sales leadership, complex SaaS or IoT/AI/ML technical selling experience, training expertise, value-based sales framework knowledge, and strong communication skills.
Top Skills:
Ai/MlIotSaaS
What you need to know about the Charlotte Tech Scene
Ranked among the hottest tech cities in 2024 by CompTIA, Charlotte is quickly cementing its place as a major U.S. tech hub. Home to more than 90,000 tech workers, the city’s ecosystem is primed for continued growth, fueled by billions in annual funding from heavyweights like Microsoft and RevTech Labs, which has created thousands of fintech jobs and made the city a go-to for tech pros looking for their next big opportunity.
Key Facts About Charlotte Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 90,859; 6.5% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: Lowe’s, Bank of America, TIAA, Microsoft, Honeywell
- Key Industries: Fintech, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud computing, e-commerce
- Funding Landscape: $3.1 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (CED)
- Notable Investors: Microsoft, Google, Falfurrias Management Partners, RevTech Labs Foundation
- Research Centers and Universities: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Northeastern University, North Carolina Research Campus
