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Summary:

Reporting to the Divisional Vice President, FP&A Channels, the Channel Alliances Manager will play a pivotal role in building and nurturing strategic alliances with ERP partners. This role will involve driving partner-influenced and referral programs to achieve business growth and ensure seamless integration with our core values. The successful candidate will work closely with the leadership team and cross-functional units to develop and execute go-to-market strategies aligned with our goals.

Primary Responsibilities:

Partner Sales Planning and Execution

• Proactively leads a joint partner planning process that develops mutual performance objectives, financial targets, and critical milestones associated with a productive partner relationship.
• Coordinates the involvement of company personnel, including direct sales, marketing, support, services, and management resources, in order to meet partner performance objectives and partners’ expectations.
• Meets assigned targets for profitable sales volume and strategic objectives in assigned territory and partner accounts.
• Assists partners in their customer engagements to help position, promote and sell insightsoftware solutions.
• Builds a strong partner pipeline through co-marketing programs, account mapping of company and partner.

General Partner Management

• Manages potential channel conflict with other partners or sales channels by fostering excellent communication internally and externally, and through strict adherence to channel rules of engagement.
• Ensures partner compliance with partner agreements.
• Drives adoption of company programs among assigned partners.
• Monitors performance of partners and coaches them to higher levels of success.

Accountabilities and Performance Measures

• Achieves assigned sales quota (Indirect / Partner Sourced Sales) in the territory. Achieves intermediate metrics for partner-driven sales activity, client meetings, and opportunities.
• Develops and executes partner account plans that meet company standards.
• Maintains high partner satisfaction ratings that meet company standards.
• Completes required training and development objectives within the assigned time frame.

Organizational Alignment

• Reports to the Division Vice President, FP&A
• Enlists the support of territory direct sales, inside sales, marketing, service resources and other sales and management resources as needed.
• Closely coordinates company executive involvement with partner and customer management as appropriate.

• 3+ years of channel management experience, including a proven track record of developing and nurturing partnerships with ERP partners.
• Strong sales and business development expertise, with at least 3 years of experience driving revenue growth through partner-driven channels.
• Minimum 5-7 years of financial technology sales experience to mid-size public companies, showcasing a history of achieving sales targets.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with the capacity to articulate complex ideas clearly and concisely.
• Proficiency in negotiation, financial acumen, and analytical skills, which are vital for partnership success.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• An MBA or relevant advanced degree in business or related fields is preferred but not required.
• Experience working directly with ERPs focused on construction, real estate, manufacturing verticals.
• Demonstrated experience in data-driven decision-making is highly preferred, contributing to informed strategic choices.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

** At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the country where the position is located. **

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