
Channel Sales Manager-Acceleration
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Driving strategic and creative opportunities that increase our total value to the partner including the revenues they derive from product sales, renewals, and pull through sales of other products.
- Assigning leads to key partners and track to close
- Developing programs that offer solutions to partners’ customer installed base
- Imbedding Riverbed in partners’ reference architecture
- Working in partnership with Regional Sales Director(s) to set and execute channel strategy
- Collaborating pro-actively with Riverbed’s Acceleration Sales teams to drive incremental revenue through account planning.
- Driving portfolio training and other activities to gain mindshare with partner’s sales team
- Advising on trends in our industry, best practices among other partners, and opportunities for long-term growth.
- Understanding partners key goals and objectives and coming to agreement on mutual goals and alignment.
- BS/BA or equivalent
- 10+ years proven successful sales experience exceeding targeted objectives with 5+ years in Channel Sales
- Must have exceptional track record selling high-end software solutions, preferably in one or more of the following disciplines: Application Architectures & Performance Management, Business Analytics Tools, SaaS, IaaS, Hybrid Cloud, Cloud Storage, Subscription Model, Virtualization, and Infrastructure Management.
- Prior work experience with regional partners, SP/SI and an understanding of the various contracting vehicles
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills combined with a sense of urgency to drive revenue generation for the assigned territory
- Metric oriented and comfortable presenting trackable results quarterly.
- Creative thinking skills are required to resolve channel conflict while accelerating partner relationships.
- Business planning proficiency required
- 50% travel within assigned territory