Regional Account Manager, SLED

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❄️ Minnesota – Remote

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

💰 Account Manager

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Fortinet

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10,000+ employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $6.5M Series B on 2005-01

Cybersecurity • SaaS • B2B

Fortinet is a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions, focusing on securing networks, applications, and data across various environments. The company offers a comprehensive platform that includes advanced threat protection, secure access service edge (SASE), and networking solutions, all integrated into a single point of management. With a commitment to innovation and efficiency, Fortinet serves a wide range of industries, securing over 700,000 enterprise customers and government organizations globally.

📋 Description

• Execute a Go-To Market Strategy through prospecting and collaboration with SLED-focused partners • Build and maintain a constant revenue pipeline • Manage an assigned territory and quota • Forecast weekly, monthly, and quarterly revenues • Conduct face-to-face meetings with customers and partners 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 close and provide presales support • Work with the local Channel Account Manager and reseller partners to drive deals, increase revenue, and enable partner success • Follow up on inbound, web, corporate event, and outbound prospecting leads • Lead customer and partner presentations and demos via online tools such as GoToMeeting • Analyze and report on supported opportunities • Liaise between partners, customers, and Fortinet teams • Perform other duties and projects supporting business growth

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree • 1+ years of field sales experience in the B2B technology space, with a preference for experience selling to SLED accounts • Working knowledge of the businesses, procurement processes, and partners in the local territory, especially within the SLED sector • Ability to run productive customer-facing and partner-facing meetings while providing timely and relevant written follow-up • Proven track record of meeting and exceeding sales quotas and targets • Understanding of the sales cycle in conjunction with business processes internally and externally • Experience 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 • 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 • Required to spend more than 50% of time outside of the office or home office engaged in selling, including travel as needed • Preferred: prior experience selling cybersecurity or technology solutions to SLED accounts • Preferred: familiarity with government procurement processes, cooperative purchasing agreements, and budget cycles in the SLED sector • 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 field sales