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Your Role:

The Business Development Executive is focused on driving depth and breadth for the northeast territory, selling Fortinet products for networking and security. Utilizing data insights to identify growth opportunities to deliver on Ingram Micro's goals and outcomes across a category/vendor(s).

Your focus will be on cultivating strong relationships with partners and vendors, identifying new business opportunities, and executing sales strategies to retain and expand market share. This role requires a deep understanding of the platform industry, exceptional negotiation skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve category objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Category Strategy: Develop and execute a category strategy to drive growth and new business development within the category. Identify emerging trends, customer needs, and potential market opportunities to shape the category's success.

• New Business Opportunities: Identify and pursue new business opportunities within existing partners, including strategic partnerships, alliances, and end-customer acquisition motions, to expand the category's offerings and market reach.

• Vendor and Partner Relations: Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key vendors and strategic partners. Negotiate and secure favorable terms and conditions to ensure mutual success and accelerate category growth.

• Market Analysis: Conduct in-depth market research and analysis to stay ahead of market trends, competitor activities, and emerging opportunities. Utilize data-driven insights to make informed decisions and guide category acceleration efforts.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with various internal teams, including sales, marketing, product management, and operations, to align strategies and accelerate new business development.

• Customer Engagement: Engage directly with key existing customers to understand their unique needs and challenges. Leverage Customer feedback to drive product improvements and deliver exceptional Customer experiences.

• Product Portfolio Expansion: Work closely with the product management team to identify opportunities for product expansion or development to meet existing customer demands and capitalize on market trends.

• Xvantage Expertise: Drive insights and actions for reseller partners and vendors. Identifies opportunities to increase usage of the Xvantage platform for both reseller partners and vendors.

• Solution Selling: Focused on a category / portfolio of vendors to build a full solution (vs a specific vendor); Assigned to a vendor, group of vendors and/or accounts.

Ability to travel is required - conduct in person customer engagements on regular basis.

What You Bring To The Role:

• A high school diploma (or equivalent) required, bachelor’s degree preferred.

• Minimum of six years previous strategic, outside sales, account management experience (preferably in a related industry), or four years of technology or distribution experience in a sales or customer service capacity.

• Ability to travel is required - conduct in person customer engagements on regular basis.

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