Channel Development Manager Southeast
Channel Development Manager Southeast
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Job Description
Who Youll Work With
As a team member of the Arista Sales team you are the face of Arista to our customers; their internal champion for the problems they need to solve. As their champion you will align Aristas technical resources to achieve your customers business outcome. You will partner with some of the most skilled Customer Engineers in the industry in addition to our Professional Services and Executive teams to help them understand how to execute on your customers behalf. Our sales teams have a culture of team success where youll collaborate and be supported by like minded sales professionals. This role typically reports to a Regional Sales Director or Area VP of Sales.
What Youll Do
As a Channel Development Manager (CDM) at Arista Networks your primary responsibility will be to drive partnerinitiated revenue growth with our most strategic channel partners (WWT Presidio ePlus CDW SHI) in the Southeast region. Utilize your exceptional presentation and relationshipbuilding skills to convey Aristas value proposition (spanning Data Center Campus and recently addedNetwork Observability) to a diverse group of sales and technical staff while conducting ongoing sales enablement.
Youll be an integral member of the regional sales team ensuring that we maximize field collaboration with our go to partners. Leading candidates will possess strong criticalthinking mentality a commanding presence and an entrepreneurial spirit.
Your activities will center on building solid rapport with our channel partners in the region to achieve measurable results in brand awareness across the channel increased revenue and expanded share in campus market. Your success in this role will span the creation and execution of extraordinary business plans with each focus partner. Youll be measured primarily on the joint business outcome with your regional partners while demonstrating your ability to work across all levels within the partner organization.
Alternate Locations: Charlotte NC Nashville TN Jacksonville FL Orlando FL
Responsibilities included but not limited to the following;
- Develop and leverage executive partner relationships and continuously increase Arista mindshare across the organization
- Generate enthusiasm/drive among partner sales and engineering teams to sell Arista products and services
- Systematic cadence with ELITE and ELITEPLUS partners to sharpen prospecting skills related to use cases where Arista excels
- Management/Oversight of Arista partners in region with whom you will conduct ongoing business planning
- Active participation and contributing to the sales process with partners
- Business plans will be completed for each focus partner reviewed/updated quarterly with KPIs
- Acute accountability for jointlydeveloped goals
- Biweekly review of partnerinitiated opportunities.
- Manage and enforce program level compliance with upleveled partners
- Build administer manage and/or deliver accreditation training for partner sales and technical staff
- Develop and drive incentive programs (SPIFs) to scale pipeline build and accelerate closing business
- Oversight of MDF including funding allocation resourcing and logistics to drive success in all partnerrelated demand generation activities
- Ensure that partner portal is equipped with the right assets to ensure partners are effective in communicating ARISTAs value proposition.
- Recruit/Enlist/Enable new partners
Qualifications :
- BS/CS/BA Degree or equivalent in addition to previous background in sales or business development
- 3 years of dynamic channel management experience within the network industry
- Sales experience a plus
- Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills
- Desire to be part of and contribute to building a worldclass channel program
- Tenacious and assertive hunter mentalityjust get it done!
- Ability to pivot between having a business value conversation with sales executives and a technical discussion with SEs and SAs
- Strong business acumen
- Must be available for impromptu partner meetings across regionopen to 40% travel (local and regional)
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
