Channel Development Manager | USA - Illinois - Remote

Cohesity, Inc.

Illinois

Hybrid

USD 184,000 - 230,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits

Vacation, paid holidays, refresh days

401(k) retirement plan

Life and disability insurance

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

Cohesity, a leader in AI-powered data security and management, seeks a strategic Partner Manager for the CDW relationship. You will own the growth strategy, align Cohesity resources, and drive pipeline, bookings, enablement, and executive engagement with CDW.

You will build trusted relationships across CDW leadership, sales, technical, services, and field teams while developing joint business plans and leading quarterly business reviews to accelerate revenue growth.

Qualifications

Proven experience in channel, enterprise sales, strategic alliances, or partner management with a track record of revenue growth.
Experience managing large national partners (CDW or similar) and building joint business plans.
Ability to align sales, services, and leadership to drive bookings and pipeline.

Responsibilities

Own the strategic relationship with CDW and develop a Cohesity-CDW joint business plan.
Collaborate with CDW and Cohesity teams to drive bookings and deliver an exceptional customer experience.
Lead QBRs and executive reviews to identify growth opportunities and investment priorities.
Expand Cohesity mindshare across CDW by activating relationships and creating net-new pipeline.
Coordinate resources to deliver a unified go-to-market strategy with CDW.

Skills

Channel sales

Enterprise sales

Strategic alliances

Partner management

Executive engagement

Pipeline generation

QBRs / business reviews

Cross-functional collaboration

English proficiency

Job description

Cohesity opens in a new tab is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale.

We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized opens in a new tab for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design.

Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry.

In this role, you will serve as the primary strategic relationship owner for CDW, one of Cohesity's most important national strategic partners. You will be responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive partner growth strategy that drives pipeline creation, bookings, enablement, executive engagement, and market expansion. Your focus will be on building trusted relationships across CDW executive leadership, sales, technical, services, and field organizations while aligning Cohesity resources to increase mindshare, create net-new opportunities, and accelerate revenue growth.

By growing awareness, demand, and preference for Cohesity solutions across CDW's organization and customer base, you will play a critical role in driving bookings, expanding strategic account penetration, and achieving ambitious growth objectives.

How you'll spend your time here:

Serve as the primary strategic relationship owner for CDW, developing trusted relationships across executive leadership, sales, technical, services, and field organizations.
Develop and execute a joint Cohesity-CDW business plan with measurable goals for pipeline creation, bookings, enablement, account penetration, and market development.
Collaborate closely with CDW and Cohesity teams to drive bookings and deliver an exceptional customer experience.
Expand Cohesity's presence and mindshare across CDW by developing new relationships within CDW sales, technical, services, and leadership organizations and activating those relationships to create net-new pipeline and bookings.
Drive account mapping and seller alignment between CDW and Cohesity field teams to identify whitespace opportunities, accelerate strategic engagements, and generate net-new pipeline.
Partner with CDW and Cohesity sales teams on strategic enterprise opportunities, including key verticals and high-value accounts.
Forecast pipeline performance and bookings in coordination with CDW and Cohesity sales leadership.
Develop, manage, and actively lead a sales strategy and business plan for CDW, including pipeline, bookings, enablement, marketing, and strategic growth initiatives.
Build Cohesity mindshare across CDW by creating repeatable sales plays, enablement programs, executive engagement strategies, and field activation initiatives.
Enable CDW sales and technical teams at scale in alignment with GTM objectives, partner programs, and strategic business priorities.
Track performance against business plan objectives and establish action plans to address gaps in pipeline generation, enablement, engagement, account penetration, and bookings.
Lead regular Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) and executive business reviews with CDW and Cohesity leadership, leveraging KPIs and performance metrics to identify growth opportunities and investment priorities.
Develop selling and services opportunities within CDW while expanding relationships into additional business units, technical organizations, and customer segments.
Develop a strong understanding of CDW's business model and economics and clearly articulate how CDW sellers and services teams can profitably grow their business with Cohesity through services, incentives, programs, and expansion opportunities.
Coordinate Cohesity sales, SE, marketing, services, partner programs, and executive leadership resources to deliver a unified go‑to‑market strategy with CDW.
Develop partner‑led competitive displacement strategies that increase Cohesity share of wallet and position Cohesity favorably against key competitors.
Coordinate marketing activities and leverage Cohesity marketing resources to drive awareness, pipeline generation, executive engagement, and measurable return on investment.

We'd love to talk to you if you have many of the following:

Proven experience in channel, enterprise sales, strategic alliances, or partner management, with a strong track record of exceeding revenue and growth objectives.
Prior experience managing CDW or another large national solution provider, strategic reseller, or GSI is strongly preferred; existing CDW relationships are highly desirable.
Demonstrated success building and executing joint business plans with large strategic partners while delivering measurable pipeline growth, bookings performance, and market expansion.
Proven ability to build and maintain relationships ranging from field sellers and technical teams through executive leadership within complex partner organizations.
Experience driving partner‑led account mapping, pipeline generation, territory planning, and enterprise sales campaigns.
Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, cyber resilience, data security, cloud, and/or data management markets.
Direct experience developing executive‑level relationships and conducting QBRs, business reviews, and strategic planning sessions.
Experience coordinating cross‑functional teams, including sales, pre‑sales, marketing, services, and executive stakeholders to achieve business objectives.
Experience collaborating with diverse teams to optimize partner investments and maximize business outcomes.
Ability to successfully design and execute scalable partner enablement and engagement strategies.
Excellent presentation skills, comfortable presenting technical and business content to executive audiences, sales teams, and large partner organizations.
Ability to work independently and remotely, demonstrating initiative, ownership, and strategic thinking.
Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision‑making.
Must have English language proficiency (can interact with a high degree of fluency when speaking, reading, and writing in a professional setting).
Willingness to travel as needed, including regular engagement with CDW leadership, field teams, customers, and Cohesity stakeholders.

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Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws - This position has a starting pay range as listed below. Actual salary depends upon many factors, including a candidate’s skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations, and therefore a starting salary at the low end, high end, or even above the stated range may be offered. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants. Additionally, full‑time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.

Pay Range :

$183,600.00-$229,500.00

The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full‑time employment.

Current pay transparency shows the OTE (On‑Target Earnings) for commission‑based roles.

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At Cohesity, we work hard and move fast—and we’re not afraid to push boundaries to deliver exceptional work. We value integrity and respect, and here’s what we promise: We’ll give you the tools to be successful and welcome you into a culture that celebrates individual contributions and collective success. We’ll empower you to grow, offer continuous learning opportunities, and surround you with ambitious, collaborative colleagues.

We strive to have a parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our employees (and their families) is the right thing to do.