Channel Manager

1 Month ago • All levels • $154,900 PA - $221,300 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Channel Manager is responsible for managing the SHI partnership in the Western US, focusing on sales and enablement. The role involves leveraging the partnership to sell Veeam's technology to end customers and prospects. Key responsibilities include building and maintaining relationships, creating business plans, developing joint action plans, managing the Veeam pipeline within SHI, keeping SHI updated on Veeam news, and providing support for licensing, technical issues, and sales. The role requires strong communication, analytical skills, and the ability to work independently. The role involves up to 75% travel.

Must have:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Sales experience with or through Channel Partner ecosystems.
Ability to grasp new technology concepts.
Analytical thinker with proven ability to metric and govern.
Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Good to have:

Sales experience in backup, cloud, or data center industries.
Experience with Veeam Alliance Partners.
Knowledge of virtualization industry.

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Job Details

Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes businesses should control all their data whenever and wherever they need it.

Veeam provides data resilience through data backup, data recovery, data portability, data security, and data intelligence. Based in Seattle, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running.

The Channel Manager is responsible for the alignment, enablement, and performance of the SHI partnership in the Western US. The role's key purpose is to leverage the partnership to actively sell our technology to their end customers and/or targeted prospects. The Field Partner Manager understands Veeam’s go-to-market (Sales Segmentation) and where there are synergies with SHI to obtain more opportunity for growth.

*Due to business needs, STRONG preference toward candidates based in Southern CA, Phoenix, Seattle, or Denver)

Responsibilities:

Managing relationships in a highly leveraged, matrixed environment
Reinforces sales & technical knowledge of the partner
Builds and maintains lasting relationships with key roles within the partner account
Creates annual and quarterly business plans with SHI West organization
Develops, negotiates and tracks joint Action Plans with the SHI Business Units and Sales Organizations
Develops and assists in managing SHI’s Veeam pipeline
Keeps SHI Sales, Engineering and Leadership up-to-date on Veeam news and promotions
Develops a solid working knowledge of Veeam Software products and the benefits they provide
Provides support to SHI, to including help with licensing and technical issues related to Veeam products
Provides support to qualified prospects and customers including follow up, product information, quotations and closures
Provides forecasting and account opportunity as needed
Updates and maintains SHI region specific data in Salesforce.com (Veeam's CRM system)
Ability to travel up to 75% of the time within the assigned territory/region requirements

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree and/or equivalent years of experience Sales experience with or through the Channel Partner ecosystems
Sales experience in relevant industries of backup, cloud, data center a plus Ability to pick up new technology concepts
Analytical thinker with proven ability to metric and govern
Experience with Veeam Alliance Partners
Ability to adapt to changes in roles and responsibilities
Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills; must be able to present to groups
Knowledge of virtualization industry and the ability to relay information to the partner community
Ability to work independently with limited direction in a fast-paced environment

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