Matching market opportunities with their partner’s capabilities.
Recommending markets and opportunities for their partners to pursue (market analysis, partner profiling and coverage, partner economic business case).
Leading annual and quarterly business planning (marketing, training and competency, and business development) and reviews.
Engaging company resources (from executives to product experts, inside to outside, etc.).
Growing business through the partner(s) including forecasting, pipeline, and deal management.
Identifies market opportunities and coaches partner on which opportunities to pursue.
Exposes partner profile and capabilities to teams – executives, Inside sales, Industry teams, AE’s, etc.
Creates and delivers business case to partners (including economic value proposition) for expansion into new solution areas (product, verticals, geography).
Enables partners to excel in sales and delivery through best-practice cases or innovative solutions, spotting new development opportunities.
Simplifies our engagement to minimize cost of process.
Drives co- innovation to reduce time to market and maximize our partnership’s profitability.
Ensures that partner time to revenue decrease by all available means such as co-developing plans, metrics, and a disciplined review process.
Along with partner, co-develops overall annual business plan.
Drives a community of best performance for our partners through challenges, learning content and recognition of our top partners and their high potential across the diverse market units.
Coaches partners towards optimizing the Go To Market.
Ensures that for every partner competency plans are in place to ensure partner resources are trained on the latest solution and sales content.
Ensures partner resources have full access to and are utilizing tools and methodologies.
Takes on responsibility that presales coaching plan for existing and new partners are developed based on requirements.
Requirements
Minimum 10 years experience in channel and direct business (Sales, Marketing, Business Dev. or other)
Deep knowledge in Managed Services and SaaS sales.
Cloud and Infrastructure Sales Experience.
Knowing or having successful experience in multi channel go to market models.
Understanding the principles of solution selling through Partners within both SME and LE segment.