We're looking for an experienced Channel Sales Manager to manage and grow new Channel Partners for our new PowerOn Solution. In this role as Partner Manager, you will implement a multi-year plan to rapidly grow revenue through acquiring, nurturing, and developing new Channel Partners within the Analytics and Power BI spaces pace. Your primary focus will be to execute revenue growing strategies as well as managing go-to-market programs.
Partner Sales Planning and Execution
- Excels at recruitment, onboarding, and moving partners into productive mode quickly. Constantly assessing and prioritizing the needs of the region, by insuring the right partners are pursued and committed to mutual success.
- Proactively leads a joint partner planning process that develops mutual performance objectives, financial targets, and critical milestones associated with a productive partner relationship.
- Coordinates the involvement of company personnel, including direct sales, marketing, support, services, and management resources, in order to meet partner performance objectives and partners' expectations.
- Meets assigned targets for profitable sales volume and strategic objectives in assigned territory and partner accounts.
- Assists partners in their customer engagements to help position, promote and sell insightsoftware solutions.
- Builds a strong partner pipeline through co-marketing programs, account mapping of company and partner.
General Partner Management
- Manages potential channel conflict with other partners or sales channels by fostering excellent communication internally and externally, and through strict adherence to channel rules of engagement.
- Ensures partner compliance with partner agreements.
- Drives adoption of company programs among assigned partners.
- Monitors performance of partners and coaches them to higher levels of success.
Accountabilities and Performance Measures
- Achieves assigned sales quota (Indirect / Partner Sourced Sales) in the territory. Achieves intermediate metrics for partner-driven sales activity, client meetings, and opportunities.
- Develops and executes partner account plans that meet company standards.
- Maintains high partner satisfaction ratings that meet company standards.
- Completes required training and development objectives within the assigned time frame.
Organizational Alignment
- Reports to the DVP NA Channel Sales
- This is a remote opportunity
- Enlists the support of territory direct sales, inside sales, marketing, service resources and other sales and management resources as needed.
- Closely coordinates company executive involvement with partner and customer management as appropriate.
- 3+ years of experience in a similar role with a strong focus on indirect sales and channel development for a software product company.
- Track record of achieving targets with partner recruitment, enablement, opportunity generation and revenue.
- Experience of the workings of reseller, systems integrator and consulting ecosystem. Past relationships and network is a plus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to interact with technical and business counterparts both within and outside the company.
- Hungry to learn and coachable.
- Team player with positive attitude.
- Entrepreneurial and self driven
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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** At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the country where the position is located. **
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