Major Accounts Manager (Telecommunications and Service Providers) Sydney
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Location: Australia (Sydney)
This is an exciting multifaceted this key role you will manage and drive direct sales engagements into a set of named accounts and strategic partners. Your focus will be two-fold create and implement strategic account plans focused on:
- Primarily attaining enterprise-wide deployments of Fortinet products and services with all areas of the named accounts.
- Develop business case to build services for telco customers (midmarket SMB consumer and enterprise) work with your virtual team to drive Fortinet revenue.
Critical elements of the role will include:
- Industry knowledge - Strong understanding of telco core platforms and its enterprise platforms telco industry knowledge including 5G Cloud Edge Cloud IoT and other technologies being adopted by telcos and service providers.
- Strategic executive relationships - The ability to develop executive relationships and have strategic conversations concerning how the telco landscape can be monetized both within the telco core network as well as through its partner channel and ecosystem.
- Business case development - Build internal business case for investment of resources into those names accounts by developing and communicating value proposition to multiple stakeholders at different levels of the organisation (both within the customer accounts and internal).
- Complex deal experience - Experience in driving complex deals including solution design negotiating legal T&Cs and developing innovative commercial models.
- Solution development - The ability to work with internal technical stakeholders and partners within the telco ecosystem in order to provide solutions with a clear ROI.
- Development and execution of strategic plan - Develop and communicate strategic plan and work with your virtual team - comprising of local and global technical team channel team training team marketing project management thought leadership team and insides sales teams and others where necessary.
You would act as the key Account Manager for Telecommunications and Service Providers.
As a Major Accounts Manager you will:
- Generating opportunities and managing the sales process through to closure of the sale.
- Work with internal stakeholders to develop and execute successful go to market strategy.
- Achievement of agreed quarterly / annual sales goals.
- Generate a sales pipeline qualifying opportunities and accurately forecast pipeline.
- Selling Fortinets entire security portfolio and maintaining relationships with a set of major accounts.
- Responsible for expanding Fortinets footprint in the assigned accounts and ensuring ongoing. customer satisfaction.
- To collaborate with extended Fortinet teams but also work independently to accomplish the required tasks.
- Collaborate with all levels of management in order to negotiate and influence to build consensus.
We Are Looking For:
An insightful and influential collaborator to join our team. We encourage you to apply for this position if you have the following qualities:
- Proven ability to not only sell but articulate clear value proposition and competitive differentiation to your customers.
- A proven track record of quota achievement and demonstrated career stability
- Experience in closing large deals and ability to demonstrate developing and executing on strategy
- 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
- Minimum 8 years sales experience selling in selling to large organisations .
- Minimum 3 years selling enterprise network security products and services.
- Candidate must thrive in a fast-paced ever-changing environment.
- Competitive Self-starter Hunter-type mentality.
- BS or equivalent experience graduate degree preferred.
Why Join Us:
At Fortinet we embrace diversity and inclusivity. We encourage applications from diverse backgrounds and identities. Explore our welcoming work environment designed for a rewarding career journey with an attractive Total Rewards package to support you with your overall health and financial well-being. Join us in bringing solutions that make a meaningful and lasting impact to our 660000 customers around the globe.
We will only notify shortlisted candidates.
Fortinet will not entertain any unsolicited resumes please refrain from sending them to any Fortinet employees or Fortinet email aliases. Should any Agency submit any resumes to Fortinet these resumes if considered will be assumed to have been given by the Agency free of any related fees/charges.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Business Development
- Customer Service
- Annual Sales
- Contract Negotiations
- Revenue Growth
- Account Management
- Customer Base
- Customer Relationships
- New Customers
- Sales Activities
- Trade shows
- Corporate Accounts
- Sales Goals
- Sales Process
- Sales Support
About Company
From the start, the Fortinet vision has been to deliver broad, truly integrated, high-performance security across the IT infrastructure. We provide top-rated network and content security, as well as secure access products that share intelligence and work together to form a cooperativ ... View more
