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SolarWinds is looking for an experienced field channel sales manager to drive SolarWinds revenue with, by and through a set of existing and new channel partners.
This individual contributor will help build, manage, and grow our North America partners - including DMRs, Services Partners and Regional VAR/SIs.
You will also work with the SolarWinds sales organization to exceed monthly, quarterly and annual channel objectives through a bidirectionally committed set of channel partners.
The ideal candidate in this role should:
• Be familiar with and have experience in selling software, ideally in the monitoring space.
• Have deep experience in working with channel partners: attracting, recruiting, onboarding, enabling, engaging in full go-to-market planning and selling jointly at the field level.
• Be well-versed in sales process/engagement models: Solution Selling, Command of the Sale, Aslan, Strategic Selling, Miller-Heiman, Challenger Selling (ideally).
• Be able to demonstrate experience in finding ways to run and improve a business with high velocity.
• Be a consummate negotiator - always maximizing the value for the customer, partner and the company.
Responsibilities:
• Optimize current, prioritize new, and retire unperforming partner relationships.
• Strategize to provide national, regional, local and vertical partners to serve and grow SolarWinds' market presence and coverage for our NA sales team.
• Provide insight and position SolarWinds' ITOM solutions into meaningful customer relationships with channel partners.
• Work with partner marketing to design plays, programs and creative initiatives to drive programs with the partners - and through the partners.
• Help guide the transformation from a transactional-only business to a land-and-expand + strategic sales business.
• Be a student of the industry, including trends, competitive positioning, business value drivers and F500 expected outcomes - to add value in your channel involvement and feed your ability to coach others to higher highs when engaging their partners.
• Optimize how our channel account managers work with regional sales personnel to manage and grow business and pipeline.
• Help SolarWinds transition to selling to large enterprises by selling value, solutions and ROI through partners.
• Nurture, then recruit and optimize SolarWinds services partners to complement our direct sellers and to fill gaps with product-only partners.
• Demonstrate resourcefulness when faced with challenges that defy easy solution.
• Ensure robust forecasting accuracy and consistency of pipeline build through the channel.
• Identify trends and areas for improvement to continually serve customers better.
• Build and leverage relationships with channel partners that will help drive opportunity and transactional velocity for our business.
Qualifications:
• Experience with NA DMRs like CDW, SHI, WWT, Insight.
• Experience engaging with Global Systems Integrators, regional SIs and VARs.
• Thorough understanding of the two-tier distribution model.
• Has built partner programs, scaled, and driven double-digit growth through channel partners.
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