Partner & Channel Sales Manager,Resellers, VARs, Distributors

Denodo Technologies, Inc.; Milano; In loco; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A data management leader in Milan seeks a Partner & Channel Sales Manager to drive partner recruitment and sales. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in indirect sales and a strong understanding of partner ecosystems. Responsibilities include building relationships with resellers and systems integrators, managing partner performance, and achieving sales targets. This role offers opportunities for professional growth within a collaborative environment.

Competenze

• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in a similar role.
• Strong focus on indirect sales and channel development.
• Excellent knowledge of reseller and consulting ecosystems.

Mansioni

• Proactively recruits new qualified partners.
• Leads joint partner planning processes for mutual performance objectives.
• Manages potential channel conflict with other partners.

Conoscenze

Fluent in English

Indirect sales

Channel development

Excellent communication skills

Team player

Formazione

Bachelors / Masters Degree in Business Administration

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Partner & Channel Sales Manager,Resellers, VARs, Distributors

Job Category: Partner Channel Sales

Denodo is a leader in data management. The award-winning Denodo Platform is the leading data integration, management, and delivery platform using a logical approach to enable self- service BI, data science, hybrid/multi-cloud data integration, and enterprise data services. Realizing more than 400% ROI and millions of dollars in benefits, Denodo’s large enterprise and mid-market customers across 30+ industries have received payback in less than 6 months. For more information, visit www.denodo.com .

We are a fast-growing, international organization with teams across four continents and we work with a cutting-edgetechnology, but that's not all we have to offer. At Denodo, we are like a family and it is of the utmost importance to us that we help support your professional growth every step of the way

Job Description

The Opportunity

Denodo is looking for a creative, focused, well-organized and highly-motivated individual to drive their Partner and Channel Sales. In this role you will win, maintain and expand relationships with resellers, system integrators, consulting and technology partners and be responsible for achieving indirect sales targets, partner readiness and partner recruitment objectives.

The role carries a partner sales quota and requires working closely with the Partner Marketing team to drive joint demand-generation and with Direct Sales colleagues to develop and accelerate opportunities through partners.

Operating at a strategic level, the candidate will define the partner strategy in his territory to build comprehensive partner coverage in the market.

Job Responsibilities & Duties

Responsibilities

Partner Recruitment, Enablement, Development

• Proactively recruits new qualified partners.
• Establishes productive, professional relationships with key personnel in assigned partner accounts.
• Proactively assesses, clarifies, and validates partner needs, gaps and requirements to be successful on an ongoing basis.
• Coordinates with other company teams to deliver adequate partner training for business and technical skills.
• Helps partners to develop solutions for /with Denodo DV to address client’s needs and further penetrate the market

Partner Sales Planning and Execution

• 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 Denodo.
• Builds a strong partner pipeline through co-marketing programs, account mapping of company and partner.
• Provides regular governance, reporting, and management of indirect and joint/co-selling activities.

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.
• Assists the global Partner Channel and Sales unit in developing efficient partner processes and workflows, company and partner performance reporting, partner marketing and support activities to enhance the partner program.

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.
• Achieves assigned goals for growing Denodo-certified consultants in partner firms.

Organizational Alignment

• Reports to the Regional Head of Partner and Channel Sales.
• Enlists the support of territory direct sales, inside sales, marketing, service resources and other sales and management resources as needed.

Desired Skills & Experience

Desired Skills & Experience

• Bachelors / Masters Degree in Business Administration.
• Fluent in English is required. Other languages will be a plus.
• 5+ years of demonstrated 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.
• Excellent knowledge and 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.
• Experience with "Data or Application Integration" will be preferred and knowledge / experience in the field of Big Data and/or Analytics will be an advantage.
• Willingness to travel around 25-50%.
• Team player with positive attitude.
• Nice to have experience in leveraging Employee Advocacy and Social Media to network with industry peers, share thought leadership content, and enhance brand visibility to support sales engagement and relationship building.

Denodo is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Denodo will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities in accordance with applicable law.

We do not accept resumes from headhunters or suppliers that have not signed a formal fee agreement. Therefore, any resume received from an unapproved supplier will be considered unsolicited, and we will not be obligated to pay a referral fee.