Fortinet

Services Business Development Manager

Fortinet$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in sales, preferably in IT/CyberSecurity Services
  • Proven track record of achieving sales quotas
  • Strong understanding of business and financial metrics
  • Bilingual proficiency in French and English
  • Previous experience in solution selling and channel partner engagement
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; advanced degree is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage internal sales relationships for service opportunities
  • Promote a range of professional services including consulting and incident response
  • Create and implement strategic account and marketing plans
  • Generate and qualify sales pipeline opportunities
  • Achieve quarterly sales goals aligned with services quotas
  • Collaborate effectively with field sales and solution engineering teams
  • Establish trusted advisor status with clients for service solutions

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with a leading cybersecurity company
  • Professional development through training and certifications
  • Dynamic work environment focused on innovation
  • Collaborative team culture
  • Flexible work arrangements and travel opportunities
Full Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION

Services Business Development Manager East

Services Business Development Manager that will manage and drive sales engagements forAdvanced Support, Incident Response, FortiGuard services, Consulting services, and professional services solutions to our Eastern Canada Customers, with Field Sales. The BDM will manage a Services quota in the specified territory. This person will also lead customer engagements with Field Sales, Field Systems Engineers, engage with Product Management/Marketing, partners, and end customers to deliver a revenue objective for the services portfolio solutions at Fortinet. In this role, you will identify ways to enhance the level of support experience, help customers build strategies to help identify cyber risk, and deploy various Fortinet technologies to resolvechallenges within your customers27 environment and drive opportunities to close.

As a Services Business Development Manager, you will:

  • Develop and manage internal sales relationships, as well as, be a key point of contact for Services solution opportunities with the end customer
  • Promote Professional, Cloud Consulting, Incident Response, FortiGuard services, and advanced support service Sales
  • Build and implement account / marketing plans for account penetration
  • Generate a sales pipeline, qualify opportunities, and accurately forecast pipeline
  • Achievement of agreed quarterly sales goals
  • Channel effectiveness: Adept at working/developing opportunities with ecosystem partners and enabling partners on our offerings.
  • Excellent communicator, including the ability to make engaging and effective presentations to an executive audience
  • Effective in a collaborative environment, particularly interacting with product and business professionals
  • Collaborate with Regional Sales Managers and Regional Systems Engineers, and their management, ensuring customers understand how to deliver value to their customers and partners
  • Establish yourself as a Services trusted advisor to prospects and customers working with the Field Sales and Engineering teams
  • Deliver outstanding service and problem resolution to Fortinet customers


Products include (Subject to change):

  • Professional Services
    Cloud Consulting Services

  • Expert Services

  • Incident Response

  • Managed Detection & Response (MDR)

  • Ransomware Advisory Services

  • Security Advisory Services

  • SOC-as-a-Service (SOCaaS)

  • Managed FortiGate Service

  • FortiGate-as-a-Service (FGaaS)

  • Employee Training

  • Free Training & On-demand Labs

  • Security Awareness Training

  • Phishing Simulation

  • Advanced Support


We Are Looking For:

  • Fully qualified, experienced sales professional that is forward thinking and has an expert understanding of the IT/CyberSecurity Services business sector
  • Exceptional business and financial acumen with a demonstrated ability to understand both short-term and long-term financial impact of business decisions
  • Previous experience designing business plans and market strategies
  • Proven ability with solution selling with a hunter mentality
  • A proven track record of quota achievement and demonstrated career stability
  • A self-motivated, independent thinker that can move deals through the selling cycle
  • Competitive, Self-starter, Hunter-type mentality.
  • Previous experience with selling service and ITproject solutions through the channel partners
  • Bilingual French and English
  • Strong analytical, communication and presentation skills to evaluate complex problems to find a systematic approach to gain a quick resolution
  • Ability to work independently with little direction 6 travel will be required in territory

  • Education:
  • Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience. Graduate Degree favorable.

About Fortinet

Fortinet is a cybersecurity company that provides network security solutions to businesses, service providers, and government organizations worldwide. The company's products and services include firewalls, VPNs, intrusion prevention systems, endpoint security, and more. Fortinet was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Learn more about Fortinet
Size
10,860 employees
Market Cap
$38.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$486.2 million
Founded
2000
5 Year Trend
+21.2%
Revenue
$2.5 billion
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