Director Territory Sales - Switzerland

at  Fortinet

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• 10+ years technology selling experience managing a team
• Fluent in German and English, French as an additional asset
• A proven track record of significant over-quota achievement and demonstrated career stability
• Experience in closing
• Excellent presentation skills to executives & individual contributors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skillsGoal oriented individual, with vast interpersonal managerial skills, strong business acumen and positive leadership abilities with proven results in mentoring, motivating and developing teams.
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• Achieve the yearly and quarterly revenue targets
• Define yearly and quarterly targets for the team members
• Lead the RAMs, NAMs and the Teamlead who is in charge of the IRAMs
• Act as a role model in the organization and focus on operational excellence
• Define the overall territory strategy in alignment with the country management
• Be part of the local senior management team and contribute to the overall success of Fortinet Switzerland by collaborating with the other teams
• Manage and motivate your Sales Team
• Create a sustainable visit frequency of sales teams to end customers with resulting pipeline creation
• Ensure the creation of portfolio plans and coach sales to drive account intelligence research
• Coach team members to position and sell our entire portfolio
• Coach team members on the use of MEDDIC framework
• Develop team members and build up a successor
• Develop relationships with key decision makers, influencers and partners
• Manage effective working relationships with assigned Technical Sales Engineers, and Consulting Professionals
• Travel within Switzerland as required
• Work with the channel organization to identify the relevant partners for your organization and participate and contribute to the partner business plans
• Partner with Fortinet marketing including BDRs and the respective management and engineering teams to drive revenue growth within region
• Conduct weekly reviews to drive activities and to prepare your own weekly forecast
• Conduct quarterly in depth reviews and own the divisional review