Fortinet

• Partner with sales to qualify opportunities, define solution strategy, and align technical capabilities with customer business outcomes. • Lead discovery sessions, workshops, and security assessments that uncover operational and architectural requirements in complex enterprise environments. • Design and present secure architectures that incorporate networking, cloud, and SecOps components. • Deliver impactful presentations and demos to both technical stakeholders and executive decision-makers (CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, and business leaders). • Serve as the primary technical expert in sales cycles, guiding enterprise accounts through evaluation and decision processes. • Advise on cybersecurity strategies such as Zero Trust, SASE, cloud security, and SecOps modernization. • Build and maintain long-term trusted relationships with C-level executives and senior leadership, positioning yourself as a strategic advisor. • Translate technical concepts into business value discussions tailored for executive-level conversations. • Support smooth deployment transitions by working closely with professional services, support, and customer success teams. • Provide roadmap guidance, operational reviews, and strategic check-ins to reinforce customer value realization. • Continue as a trusted advisor to enterprise leadership, ensuring ongoing alignment of their evolving needs with solution capabilities.

• Manage and drive direct sales into Major Enterprise Accounts. • Create and implement strategic account plans focused on attaining enterprise-wide deployments of Fortinet products and services. • Develop executive relationships with key buyers and influencers in Major Enterprise Accounts and leverage these during the sales process. • Coordinate with appropriate internal groups to generate and deliver winning Contract Bids, Proposals, RFI/RFP Responses, and Statements of Work. • Negotiate terms of business with clients to achieve win/win results that provide the basis for solid ongoing relationships.

• Create and implement territory plans focused on attaining deployments of Fortinet products and services to a set of assigned, existing accounts and new logo prospects, within your assigned territory. • Develop executive relationships with key buyers and influencers and leverage these relationships to achieve quarterly sales goals. • Generate a sales pipeline, qualify opportunities, and accurately forecast pipeline. • Coordinate with appropriate internal groups to generate and deliver winning Contract Bids, Proposals, RFI/RFP Responses, and Statements of Work. • Negotiate terms of business with clients to achieve win/win results that provide the basis for exceptional ongoing relationships. • Build and promote the Company’s position as the worldwide leader in Unified Threat Management.

• Establish productive, professional relationships with key personnel in assigned Silver and Gold 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) • Ability to work in a high volume low-end and mid-market sector • 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

• Develop and execute strategic account and territory plans to achieve and exceed sales targets • Identify, prospect, and acquire new Public Sector customers across the AURA region • Drive adoption of Fortinet solutions across both new and existing Public Sector accounts • Build and maintain strong relationships with key decision makers and influencers within COTER organisations • Lead internal teams to deliver high quality proposals, RFP responses, and statements of work • Manage the full sales cycle from prospecting to negotiation and closing • Maintain accurate pipeline management and forecasting • Collaborate with technical, channel, and marketing teams to ensure customer satisfaction • Conduct regular customer visits across the region to support business development and account growth

• Partner with sales to qualify opportunities, define solution strategy, and align technical capabilities with customer business outcomes. • Lead discovery sessions, workshops, and security assessments that uncover operational and architectural requirements in complex enterprise environments. • Design and present secure architectures that incorporate networking, cloud, and SecOps components. • Deliver impactful presentations and demos to both technical stakeholders and executive decision-makers (CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, and business leaders). • Serve as the primary technical expert in sales cycles, guiding enterprise accounts through evaluation and decision processes. • Advise on cybersecurity strategies such as Zero Trust, SASE, cloud security, and SecOps modernization. • Build and maintain long-term trusted relationships with C-level executives and senior leadership, positioning yourself as a strategic advisor. • Translate technical concepts into business value discussions tailored for executive-level conversations. • Support smooth deployment transitions by working closely with professional services, support, and customer success teams. • Provide roadmap guidance, operational reviews, and strategic check-ins to reinforce customer value realization. • Continue as a trusted advisor to enterprise leadership, ensuring ongoing alignment of their evolving needs with solution capabilities.

• manage and drive direct sales engagements into a set of Named Accounts • create and implement territory plans focused on attaining deployments of Fortinet products and services • develop executive relationships with key buyers and influencers • generate a sales pipeline, qualify opportunities, and accurately forecast pipeline • coordinate with appropriate internal groups to generate and deliver winning Contract Bids, Proposals and Statements of Work • negotiate terms of business with clients to achieve win/win results • understanding customer business goals and effectively translating the capabilities of Fortinet to help them achieve those goals.

• Pre-sales - assist in qualifying sales leads from a technical standpoint. • Effectively carry out presales function in solution offerings (proposal, demo, presentation, etc.). • Lead all technical aspects of a sales cycle with the customer, from the initial RFIs, through to RFPs & RFQs when required. • Actively participate in preparing tender documents and proposals, RFPs, RFIs and POC demo. • Sales calls - be the main technical resource on sales calls and answer/ educate the customer on issues ranging from features, specifications and functionality to integration. • Conversant with networking applications and solutions. • Understudy customer requirements, environment and challenges and able to propose/provide security solution design and implementation solutions to clients. • Post-sales - be the lead technical contact for identified accounts for technical issues and will work closely with the technical support team and engineering to answer, elevate and resolve customer's technical issues.

• In technical pre-sales engagements, support the sales teams through customer meetings, demos, RfX responses and proof of concept activities. • Leverage your cybersecurity background to identify your clients’ needs and implement the most suitable Fortinet solutions. • Help partners and customers to create the best security and network architectures that are tailored to our customers requirements. • Gradually take on responsibility for technical areas or solutions. • On complex opportunities, work together with senior Systems Engineers, Consulting System Engineers (CSEs), Solution Architects, and partners. • Be the lead on customer workshops, technical presentations, and enablement activities • Maintain and continuously expand your knowledge of Fortinet technologies, integrations, and industry trends

• Understanding of the Fortinet portfolio with the ability to demonstrate and articulate technical and business value. • Strong foundational knowledge in security and networking technology and specifically in our “core technology”, FortiOS-based products. • Subject Matter Expert for Carrier/MSSPs and first contact in an assigned technical domain within or across assigned Carrier/MSSPs. Manage domain use cases, competitive intelligence, and differentiation. Excellent product integration & customization skills including relevant 3rd party integrations. • Create sales opportunities by identifying solutions to customer problems and assist in qualifying sales leads from a technical perspective. Discover opportunities to upsell and cross-sell Fortinet solutions. Initiate and influence project decisions. • Manage and lead all aspects of the technical sales engagement from general queries to demos, responses to RfX, driving PoC’s and enablement around features, specifications, and functionality to integration. Provide high-level architecture and implementation design consultation and best practice guidance for strategic opportunities. • Act as trusted advisor for assigned MSSP/Carrier accounts and maintain the technical relationship with the customer. Discover opportunities to upsell and cross-sell Fortinet solutions. Work closely with the regional escalation manager, technical support team and engineering to ensure customer's technical issues are answered and resolved. • Collaborate with peers, Consulting System Engineers (CSE’s), Solution Architects, Business Consultants, Professional Services and/or Partners on complex opportunities. Capture and manage customer requirements through the Consulting System Engineering Team to Product Management. • Support PreSales, Sales & Channel enablement activities and events.