Director Channel Sales Aternity
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The Director Channel Sales will be located in Westborough, MA and report to the Vice President of Business Development.
The Director of Channel Sales will be responsible for all revenues generated through indirect channel partners and is responsible for creating and executing significant growth strategies to increase the overall revenue and profit contribution from channel partners to Aternity. This includes building relationships with ITOs, SIs, ISVs, VARs and APM Vendors.
Responsibilities:
Developing and executing a Corporate Channel Strategy to maximize indirect channel revenue by identifying, recruiting and enabling channel partners with expertise or value within focused vertical industries
Partner development and management, strategy development, forecast reporting, and account management
Complete go to market strategies as it relates to indirect selling through channel partners
Creating distribution policies as it pertains to channel partners that include territory assignments, rights to distribute certain Aternity products, and margins for various Aternity products and services that partners are authorized to sell
Developing and maintaining all contracts between Aternity and channel partners
Enforce Aternity distribution policies with channel partners
Developing and maintaining financial and non-financial metrics to measure channel partner performance, including partner company financials, partner sales bookings, partner marketing capabilities, partner service capabilities, and partner management capabilities
Recruiting and developing new channel partners based on market opportunities in various geographical, product, and market segments
Developing and measuring quotas for the entire channel as well as each individual channel partner and Aternity management staff
Fostering meaningful business relationships with Aternity channel partners to ensure successful business for both Aternity and channel partners
Measuring and understanding channel partner business models including mix between Aternity software and services, as well as the mix between Aternity business and other partner?s lines of business
Working in tandem with marketing to ensure lead distribution is
Developing and maintaining ongoing sales training programs to ensure channel partners are equipped with the appropriate product and sales training
Working in conjunction with the direct sales teams to minimize conflict and ensure the right sales distribution entities are pursuing the appropriate customers. Manage forecasts from the entire
channel that rollup into company wide sales forecasts on a quarterly basis
50% Travel required
Experience:
10+ years, experience in enterprise software sales, with 5+ years, experience building a Partner network
Building and managing a worldwide channel network including identifying, qualifying, and signing partners
Maximizing channel revenue via CXO level partner
Quarterly planning and training sessions, as well as, matrix managing the execution of the plan across Aternity?s direct sales organization, and sales engineering teams
A thorough understanding of sales cycles/processes, and excellent presentation skills are required.
Must have a proven track record of exceptional performance exceeding goals on a continuous basis and successful background in early stage technology companies a plus.
A winning track record of selling complex, enterprise software solutions, through both direct and indirect channels, to senior executives at F1000 enterprises
Majority of previous experience selling System Management / Software Platforms and Tools with an average sale price of at least $250K
Sufficient technology experience / background to understand Aternity?s technology value proposition, architecture and deployment models and map Aternity?s solution to customers? needs
Deep technical and business understanding of Application Performance Management or other IT Infrastructure Management space a major advantage
Excellent consultative and competitive sales skills that leverage both strong process and relationship-driven techniques
Proven ability to penetrate, build and nourish meaningful, long term relationships with senior executives and other key stakeholders within the enterprise
A strong personal contributor with an entrepreneurial spirit and mature sales execution capabilities and experience
Background and Characteristics::
Articulate and persuasive communicator (written and spoken)
Strong presence and personality resulting in the ability to build trust and respect quickly
Proven track record of exceptional performance exceeding goals on a continuous basis
Prove ability to negotiate win-win Partner Agreements
Prior experience and successful track record with early stage technology companies a plus
Detailed oriented ?multi-tasker? with strong Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
Highly attentive to details (many, many details)
Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree in Business or Engineering disciplines
MBA a plus
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200 Friberg Parkway
Suite 1004
Westborough, MA 01581
United States
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