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Senior Channel Account Executive

Sophos

Sophos

Sales & Business Development
India
Posted on Monday, August 28, 2023
Sophos is a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, protecting more than 500,000 organizations and millions of consumers in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by threat intelligence, AI and machine learning from SophosLabs and SophosAI, Sophos delivers a broad portfolio of advanced products and services to secure users, networks and endpoints against ransomware, malware, exploits, phishing and the wide range of other cyberattacks. Sophos provides a single integrated cloud-based management console, Sophos Central – the centerpiece of an adaptive cybersecurity ecosystem that features a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity vendors. Sophos sells its products and services through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos has major hubs around the globe. More information is available at www.sophos.com
Role Summary
The Channel Account Executive (CAE) is accountable for managing our most strategic Sophos partners. They are responsible for developing joint business plans with partners to hit revenue and profitability targets by developing new customer MDR, services, MSP and next-gen portfolio opportunities, as well as new logo, up-sell, cross-sell and renewal conversations with existing customers.

What you will do

  • Develop relationships at all levels across the partner for North, East, Nepal and Bangladesh region 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 to gather insights and ensure accurate business forecasting.
  • Own and manage the frequent joint business review and planning process between Partners and Sophos decision makers, incl. 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.
  • 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.

What you will bring

  • 10-18 years of Cybersecurity Channel Sales experience and managing a specific territory (preferably North and East)
  • Strong experience working with Partners & Distributors in IT Security.
  • Experience coordinating & selling security solutions.
  • Experience using Salesforce CRM
  • Prior experience on Power BI and Microsoft office
  • Strong prior experience in partner presentation and enablement
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What's Great About Sophos?
· 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
Our Commitment To You
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 that 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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