Midis Group is currently looking for a Channel Manager, to join the Quest team in Saudi for the Saudi and Bahrain region.
Quest is an award-winning IT management software provider offering a broad selection of solutions that solve some of the most common and most challenging IT problems.
The Channel Manager is focused on the management and development of Quest's business with key local and global partners in the Saudi and Bahrain market. The Channel Manager and is responsible for building and developing a well-trained and dedicated partner ecosystem that generate pipeline and revenue is addition to supporting the sales team in executing the fulfilment business.
The Channel Manager is focused on the management and development of Quest's business with key local and global partners in the Saudi and Bahrain market. The Channel Manager and is responsible for building and developing a significant incremental revenue stream for Quest with chosen strategic alliances.
The Channel Manager will develop, maintain and execute on a plan with the chosen strategic alliances which will set the strategy and drive the key actions that will create revenue growth for Quest solutions through go-to-market initiatives and uniquely branded partner solution offerings.
Responsibilities
- Expand existing Quest and One Identity footprint as well as drive new partner engagements to grow overall revenue.
- Build, agree and drive with the Alliance Partner the joint business plan and routes to and target markets
- Define joint ownership of each go-to-market initiative with key executive sponsors from within the Partner and within Quest particularly the functional groups such as Sales, Presales and Professional Services.
- Understand the joint value propositions between the partners and be capable of evangelizing this internally within the alliance partner, within Quest and externally to joint prospects and customers (in support of the Quest enterprise sales team objectives)
- Where necessary, manage the technical integration and implementation issues with joint propositions and customer engagements. It will not be necessary to have the skills to lead those engagements but the job holder will have the necessary gravitas, confidence and acumen to understand the issues and contribute significantly to the solution of any technical issues which affect the joint engagement plan. Ownership and accountability are key as is overall leadership of key deals as deemed appropriate
- Undertake quarterly reviews of the business plan against agreed targets with milestone metrics to track achievement and/or develop alternative strategies and tactics to bring the Alliance back on to agreed plan.
- Establish and develop key Executive relationships between alliance partner and Quest executives locally and globally.
- As part of the agreed joint business plan develop and agree a marketing and enablement plan to support the go-to-market initiatives and, where applicable, uniquely branded partner solution offerings
- Work with Partner and Quest marketing to capture and document joint end customer major opportunity success for internal use within the Alliance partner and Quest sales organization
- Regularly review the Alliance Partners relationships with competitor products to ensure that those providing strong opportunities are highlighted internally for the purposes of product development and thereby increase Quest's share of the Alliance Partners portfolio
- Provide monthly and quarterly performance reporting to meet any required input to worldwide / Saudi and Bahrain strategic alliances scorecard
- Establish trust between various Alliance and Quest colleagues in both sales, technical, marketing and support functions to allow a successful network of relationships to develop at all levels between both parties
Qualifications
- Have a holistic view of the Partner Ecosystem in the region with strong focus on the , Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
- Experience working with partners through account management, product management, program management and business development engagements, as examples
- Experience engaging and influencing C-level executives and strong familiarity with decision making processes in enterprise customers
- Experience presenting and articulating complex solutions including SaaS, Databases, Microsoft Platform and applications and Cybersecurity Solutions
- Demonstrated experience working with multiple stakeholders including direct and channel marketing, product management and account management teams
- Strong sales with a desire to coordinate field teams to develop and close high-profile deals
- Prior experience working with Vendors, Distributors, Systems Integrators and Consulting Companies to achieve sales.
- Experience working within the enterprise software solution industry is highly desired.
- Experience working in the Saudi and Bahrain with partners and customers
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal in Arabic and English
- Ability to gain influence within major SI's and to drive Quest up their priority list.
- Willing to travel as required.
- Demonstrated ability to lead by example and motivate other team members.
- Technical acumen with ability to present and sell technology products in a business context.
- Strong commercial and negotiation skills at enterprise level.
- Timely, realistically conservative and predictable sales forecasting.
- Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.
- Ability to be independent and work on own initiative
Preferences
- Existing relationships with the Global SI's prevalent in the Saudi and Bahrain market
- Fluency in English is mandatory and fluency in Arabic language is preferred.
Note:
This job is posted by Midis Group subsidiary who is the sole representative of Quest in the relevant region.
