Business Development Representative - Germany

Fortinet, Inc.; Hessen; On-site; EUR 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training & Certifications

Competitive Salary & Benefits

Career Growth in Enterprise Tech

Sponsorship Events

Job summary

Fortinet, Inc. is seeking a results-driven professional to join our EMEA sales team in Frankfurt. The role emphasizes both German and English communication, with an office-based schedule requiring four days on site.

You will learn Fortinet's security solutions, qualify opportunities, and work closely with Sales and Marketing to build a robust lead pipeline and drive business growth in the region.

Qualifications

• Language requirement: Business Level Proficiency of German and English.
• Experience in inbound and outbound focused sales.
• Customer oriented with strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Learn and demonstrate Fortinet's technology and articulate value to decision-makers.
• Research customers, identify decision makers, educate prospects and qualify buying interest.
• Prospecting via calling, emailing, and digital platforms to build lead pipeline and schedule qualified appointments.
• Meet and exceed daily and weekly call goals and deliver well-qualified sales opportunities.
• Maintain accurate CRM data and collaborate with Sales, Marketing and other Fortinet teams.

Skills

German language

English language

Inbound and outbound sales

Customer oriented

Job description

Location: Frankfurt, Germany

Language: Business Level Proficiency of German and English is required

This position requires to be in the office 4 days/week.

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 1200 registered Global Patents. This is over 3 times more than our closest most innovative competitor!

Our Team:

The Fortinet EMEA Business Development team is a group of highly driven and tenacious professionals, with an entrepreneurial spirit and a hunger for winning. Based in Fortinet offices across some of our key EMEA locations their mission is to drive new business opportunities for our EMEA sales teams by qualifying, nurturing and setting appointments in prospect and dormant accounts.

With us you will:

• Learn and demonstrate a fundamental understanding of Fortinet's technology in order to articulate our value proposition to decision-makers, as well as being able to successfully manage and overcome objections.
• Research customers, identify decision makers, educate prospects and qualify buying interest and sense of urgency.
• Prospecting into multiple organizations via calling, networking and e-mail, with the help of cutting-edge digital platforms for intent based leads such as Bombora and 6Sense, and contact discovery using Linked-In Sales Navigator, Discover.org, and other digital tools and Internet sources, to build and maintain a high-quality lead pipeline.
• Schedule well qualified appointments with key decision makers within targeted companies.
• Meet and exceed daily and weekly call goals, as well as deliver a high quantity of well qualified sales opportunities.
• Maintain accurate activity, contact, and account information of all customers and prospects in our CRM (Salesforce).
• Work closely with Sales, Marketing and other Fortinet business functions in the development of strategic sales approaches.

Apply if you:

• Are customer orientated with current experience of inbound and outbound focused sales.
• Want to grow your career with a leading global cybersecurity company who have experienced 19 successive years of double-digit growth.
• Are a highly motivated self-starter with a competitive personality, strong attention detail and a hunger to win.
• Have exceptional communication skills, both oral and written, coupled with excellent listening skills and a positive and energetic phone presence.
• Have the ability to demonstrate an aptitude for technology.

What you can expect from us:

• On the job and more formal online training and development opportunities, with the possibility to get the industry recognized certifications.
• A competitive salary and incentive compensation package, including stock awards, health and welfare benefits.
• An excellent role to start a career in enterprise technology sales, with opportunities to get involved with marketing, technology operations and sales
• Employee days to meet and learn about our key sponsorships and events

Fortinet is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity in our company, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world's largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 615,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet's Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone.