Channel Sales Manager

1 Month ago • 4-6 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

The Channel Sales Manager is responsible for developing and supporting company sales through indirect and direct sales activities, and key customer/market opportunity development. The manager indirectly leads channel partner reps with a "sell-with" sales approach, leveraging technical sales support and marketing to meet territory sales goals. The Channel Sales Manager champions the ANSYS Partner Program and works closely with channel partners to ensure their success. Responsibilities include selling ANSYS solutions, owning sales plans, providing leadership for opportunities, and managing relationships with executives. They also coach and motivate channel partners, conduct joint customer visits, provide forecasts, and ensure successful implementation of the Partner Program.
Must have:
  • Sell ANSYS solutions through channel partners.
  • Own the sales plan for specified region.
  • Provide hands-on leadership for sales opportunities.
  • Gain access and manage relationships with customer executives.
  • Coach channel partner representatives to grow sales skills.
Good to have:
  • Fluent in English and local language of territory
  • Simulation/PLM software Industry experience
  • Indirect business experience

Job Details

Requisition #: 16768 

 

Our Mission: Powering Innovation That Drives Human Advancement  

 

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys. 

 

Innovate With Ansys, Power Your Career.  

 

Summary / Role Purpose

The Channel Sales Manager is responsible for developing and supporting the company sales from small to medium-sized businesses through indirect and direct sales activities, and key customer/market opportunity development. The successful Channel Sales Manager indirectly leads channel partner reps with a “sell-with” sales approach and will leverage technical sales support and marketing to meet assigned territory’s sales goals. The Channel Sales Manager champions the ANSYS Partner Program and work closely with channel partners, ensuring they have the focus and commitment necessary to succeed.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities

  • Responsible for selling ANSYS solutions in a specified region through channel partners while exhibiting ANSYS Channel principles.
  • Owns the sales plan for specified region​.
  • Provide hands-on leadership for sales opportunities.
  • Gain access and manage relationships with senior level customer executives​.
  • Coach and motivate channel partner representatives to grow their Ansys selling skills.
  • Make joint customer visits, coach channel partner reps, and ensure sales, technical and principal trainings and certifications are performed in a timely manner​.
  • Provide accurate and timely forecast. Review forecast and pipeline with channel partners on a regular basis​.
  • Ensure successful implementation of ANSYS Partner Program, including marketing programs, to achieve success and effectively manage and develop the region for future growth​.
  • Mediate channel partner requests and/or issues: customer pricing, discounting, special offerings, customer concerns such as software performance issues, and assist in development of tactical solution strategies.
  • Interface directly with customers to ensure satisfaction with ANSYS solutions​.
  • Act as a liaison between channel partners and ANSYS Business Units, Marketing, Legal, Finance, and Business Operations to ensure efficient workflows and problem solving​.

 

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience

  • Education & Years of Experience: Bachelor’s degree in technical, engineering, business or related field with 4+ years successful sales, key accounts, and indirect channel account management experience in software industry OR 6+ years successful sales, key accounts, and indirect channel account management experience in software industry.​
  • Demonstrated understanding of scientific or technical software products/services, pricing/licensing practices, and consultative selling skills
  • Excellent time management, communication, decision-making, human relations, presentation, and organization skills
  • Experience in negotiating sales contracts with key accounts​.
  • Analytical, planning, coaching and communication skills​.
  • Travel: up to 50%

 

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

  • Fluent in English and in the local language of the territory
  • Simulation/PLM software Industry experience
  • Indirect business experience

 

At Ansys, we know that changing the world takes vision, skill, and each other. We fuel new ideas, build relationships, and help each other realize our greatest potential. We are ONE Ansys. We operate on three key components: our commitments to stakeholders, our values that guide how we work together, and our actions to deliver results. As ONE Ansys, we are powering innovation that drives human advancement

 

Our Commitments:

  • Amaze with innovative products and solutions
  • Make our customers incredibly successful
  • Act with integrity
  • Ensure employees thrive and shareholders prosper

Our Values:

  • Adaptability: Be open, welcome what’s next
  • Courage: Be courageous, move forward passionately
  • Generosity: Be generous, share, listen, serve
  • Authenticity: Be you, make us stronger

Our Actions:

  • We commit to audacious goals
  • We work seamlessly as a team
  • We demonstrate mastery
  • We deliver outstanding results

 

VALUES IN ACTION

Ansys is committed to powering the people who power human advancement. We believe in creating and nurturing a workplace that supports and welcomes people of all backgrounds; encouraging them to bring their talents and experience to a workplace where they are valued and can thrive.  

 

Our culture is grounded in our four core values of adaptability, courage, generosity, and authenticity. Through our behaviors and actions, these values foster higher team performance and greater innovation for our customers.  

 

We’re proud to offer programs, available to all employees, to further impact innovation and business outcomes, such as employee networks and learning communities that inform solutions for our globally minded customer base. 


WELCOME WHAT’S NEXT IN YOUR CAREER AT ANSYS

At Ansys, you will find yourself among the sharpest minds and most visionary leaders across the globe. Collectively, we strive to change the world with innovative technology and transformational solutions. With a prestigious reputation in working with well-known, world-class companies, standards at Ansys are high — met by those willing to rise to the occasion and meet those challenges head on. Our team is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulation technology, empowering our customers to turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products faster and at a lower cost. Ready to feel inspired? Check out some of our recent customer stories, here and here.

 

At Ansys, it’s about the learning, the discovery, and the collaboration. It’s about the “what’s next” as much as the “mission accomplished.” And it’s about the melding of disciplined intellect with strategic direction and results that have, can, and do impact real people in real ways. All this is forged within a working environment built on respect, autonomy, and ethics.
 

CREATING A PLACE WE’RE PROUD TO BE 
Ansys is an S&P 500 company and a member of the NASDAQ-100. We are proud to have been recognized for the following more recent awards, although our list goes on: Newsweek’s Most Loved Workplace globally and in the U.S., Gold Stevie Award Winner, America’s Most Responsible Companies, Fast Company World Changing Ideas, Great Place to Work Certified (China, Greece, France, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and U.K.).

 
For more information, please visit us at www.ansys.com

 

Ansys is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
 
Ansys does not accept unsolicited referrals for vacancies, and any unsolicited referral will become the property of Ansys. Upon hire, no fee will be owed to the agency, person, or entity.

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