Channel Account Manager - Expert And Advanced Lazio

Channel Account Manager - Expert And Advanced
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Lazio, Lazio

Channel Account Manager - Advanced Partners

The Channel Account Manager (CAM) will build and promote the company's position as the worldwide leader in Unified Threat Management, specifically through the partner community within the assigned territory.

Must be a key contributor to the revenue growth of the region and manage to the company growth targets.

Accountable for managing all advanced and expert reseller partnerships within the guidelines of Fortinet's channel programs within the geographic territory, spearheading new business development with assigned channel partners.

Will motivate, educate and train the partners in the Company's products and technologies.

The CAM is responsible for achieving sales, revenue and partner recruitment objectives.

**Responsibilities**:

- Establish productive, professional relationships with key personnel in assigned all level partner accounts

- Build a plan for partner enablement and training in assigned territory for key partners

- Coordinates the involvement of company personnel, including support, service and management resources in order to meet partner performance objectives and partner's expectations

- Assume full responsibility for accurate sales forecasting by demonstrating an in-depth knowledge of sales cycle and update SalesForce accordingly

- Meet and exceed sales quotas and revenue goals

- Proactively leads a joint partner planning process that develops mutual performance objectives, critical milestones (e. g.

training certification) in conjunction with Distribution resources (sales, support, etc)

- Manages potential channel conflict by fostering excellent communication internally and externally and through strict adherence to Fortinet's channel program guidelines

- Drives sales of new technology adoption in assigned territory

- Proactively recruits new qualifying partners

**Job Experience Required

- 4+ years channel sales and territory management in networking or security sectors

- Experience building business and marketing plans with partners

- Experience with the Distribution channel model

- Experience in sales forecasting, opportunity identification and drive to close

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and able to speak English fluently

- Excellent presentation skills

- Competitive, self-starter, team player

**Fortinet is an equal opportunity employer.

**Fortinet

**From the start, the Fortinet vision has been to deliver broad, truly integrated, high-performance security across the IT infrastructure.

Today, we secure the largest enterprises, service providers and government organizations around the world.

**Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network - today and into the future.

We have proven to be a truly innovative technology driven network security company with over 619 registered Global Patents.

This is over 3 times more than our closest most innovative competitor!

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