Channel Account Executive

Overview

The Channel Account Executive (CAE) is accountable for managing strategic Sophos partners. They are responsible for developing joint business plans with partners to hit revenue and profitability targets by developing new MDR, services, MSP, and next-gen portfolio customer opportunities, up-sell, and cross-selling to existing customers and renewals.

• Develop relationships at all levels across the partner to drive revenue growth and profitability; particularly for mid-market customers, MSP, and Managed, Detection and Response (MDR)
• Build and execute business plans that identify, develop, and close incremental opportunities to deliver outstanding growth for the partner and Sophos.
• Enable partners to take full advantage of Sophos comprehensive solution and services portfolio to improve their customer’s security protection and response.
• Directly support partners to qualify and close complex customer deals, engaging wider sales and sales engineer teams where required, gathering insights to ensure accurate business forecasting
• Own and manage the frequent joint business review and planning process between Partners’ and Sophos decision makers, with clearly defined KPI’s and SMART goals with agreed outcomes
• Collaborate to develop marketing plans with partners to drive incremental sales pipeline ensuring high return on investment from activities like lead gen campaigns and events
• Coordinate the involvement of Sophos staff, including product management, sales, SE, marketing, support, service, and management resources to meet partner performance objectives and partner expectations
• Drive high renewal rates by ensuring partners focus on their renewals and build an engagement plan to align Sophos and Partner teams, identify new business, and cross-sell opportunities
• Ensure the Sophos Sales Centre of Excellence is proactively engaged to manage processes to progress and close sub-100 user opportunities
• Motivate, educate, and ensure Partner sales and technical staff are go-to-market ready, provide access to certification and training materials and develop an enablement plan

• 3-5 years of channel sales and territory management in networking or security sectors
• Experience building successful business and marketing plans
• Understanding of the technology channel eco-system and the business model of different types of channel partners (VAR/MSP etc.)
• Adept at account management and business partner techniques with strong interpersonal, active listening, discovery, and qualification skills
• Solid technical acumen able to explain the benefits of different technologies, strong cybersecurity knowledge an advantage
• Experience of translating market trends and customer issues and needs into business opportunities for partners
• Ability to thrive in a team selling environment, winning together outlook with the ability to build relationships and influence via email, telephone, and in person
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks at once

At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don’t let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.

• Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.

• Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit

• Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy

• Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities

• Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint

• Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp

• Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge

• Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.

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