Named, Regional Sales Director TX

In this role, you will lead and manage a team of field-based sales reps in the fastest growing segment within Fortinet Mid-Market. As the Mid-Market Segment at Fortinet expands, we are looking for a strong leader to help further develop the sales execution strategy, assist with the recruitment & hiring of Mid-Market field sales reps, and ensure that your sales team effectively spreads the Fortinet value proposition across all Mid-Market accounts in your territory, resulting in consistent over-attainment against all sales targets for all sales reps on your team.

• Lead, manage and motivate a team of field-based Regional Account Managers (RAM) focused on Mid-Market accounts
• Ensure that every RAM on your team meets or exceeds their sales targets every quarter
• Assist in the recruitment, hiring and onboarding of Regional Account Managers (RAM)
• Develop plans at a rep level to achieve goals and exceed quota responsibility. These plans include new customer acquisition, customer growth, channel engagement, sales rep enablement and sales rep career path.
• Serve as an escalation point of contact in the event of customer satisfaction issues
• Help upper management establish quota for your sales reps and for your territory more broadly
• Ensure all sales plays and other marketing programs are successfully implemented by your sales reps
• Develop relationships with key decision makers, influencers and partners for the most strategic accounts and sales opportunities in your territory
• Run productive weekly 1x1 management and coaching sessions with each sales rep on your team.
• Ensure that Fortinet's technical engineering overlay sales team is properly leveraged by your sales reps
• Accurate weekly forecasting to upper management for all sales results and new sales opportunities
• Significant travel (ie, up to 50%) within assigned territory is required once Covid restrictions are lifted to a sufficient degree
• Be a role model of our Mid-Market Leadership & Success Principles as well as Fortinet's core values

• 5+ years technology sales experience
• Previous leadership and/or mentoring experience and accomplishments
• Experience in the network security industry
• A proven track record of significant over-quota achievement and demonstrated career stability
• Experience in selling collaboratively with channel partners (VAR, SI, MSSP, etc)
• Strong presentation skills to executive level & individual contributors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Be computer savvy