Business Consultant – Territory Sales, Germany
Location: Germany – South preferred but other locations will be considered
Join Fortinet, a cybersecurity pioneer with over two decades of excellence, as we continue to shape the future of cybersecurity and redefine the intersection of networking and security. At Fortinet, our mission is to safeguard people, devices, and data everywhere.
Fortinet Germany is outperforming the Security Market since several years, contributing consistent and high profitable revenue streams to Fortinet’s global success. One of the key differentiators in the market is the PreSales organization. The coverage and security technology competence level are outstanding and clearly above average vendor presence with the security industry.
The Role
The Business Consultant's main mission will be to build and maintain trusted technical and business advisor relationships with relevant customer stakeholders for assigned strategic accounts.
The Business Consultant will be part of the project team in the largest deals of the mid-market and small-enterprise team. The focus of this role is to demonstrate how Fortinet’s solutions solve the underlying business problems of the customer. The candidate will architect solutions that will help our customers to achieve not only their technical goals but also their financial goals.
The Busines Consultants can help the technical teams in our accounts to prepare a business case. This can include amortization schedules, return of investment, CapEx vs. OpEx calculations and other metrices.
Your Responsibilities
Create and nurture consultative relationships with the customer and its stakeholders on a technical and business level.
Lead the architectural design associated with Fortinet's technology strategy in alignment with key business drivers, solving customer business problems and market issues by creating a journey how individual projects and initiatives contribute towards that to-be future state architecture.
Identify opportunities and support building a business case.
Ensure awareness of Fortinet's corporate strategy and directions for key solutions and services offerings.
Project Management of the technical sales cycle in large transaction.
Maintain solution, industry, and regulation knowledge how Fortinet can benefit from trends and differentiate from key competitors.
Required Skills & Experience
Extensive experience in cyber security, networking, solution architecture field experience with proven success.
Senior customer focused, technical engineering sales professional with experience in driving mult-million dollar transactions
Strong collaborator, self-motivated, and a great communicator with an entrepreneurial mindset.
Ability to interface with senior levels of internal and external organizations is required.
Excellent verbal & written communication, presentation, prioritization, and interpersonal skills to executives and individual contributors.
Excellent German and English language skills.
Willingness to travel 20-50% of time.
Why Join Us
At Fortinet, we embrace diversity and inclusion. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds and identities to apply. Our Total Rewards package is competitive, supporting your overall health and financial well-being, and we offer flexible work arrangements in a supportive work environment.
Embark on a challenging, enjoyable, and rewarding career journey with Fortinet. Join us in bringing solutions that make a meaningful and lasting impact to our 660,000+ customers around the globe.