About You

As the ideal candidate for this role, you have a strong sales DNA, and a track record of 15+ years of success leveraging channel partners to drive growth and sales productivity. You understand that pipeline is the lifeblood of the business and as such, you have a detailed methodology for driving activities that consistently generate partner-sourced pipeline and bookings. Your weekly level of activity and engagement is very high, as you drive collaboration and engagement with partners via account mapping sessions, develop Partner Account Plans, partner with marketing to execute channel-marketing events, recruit and onboard new partners, and support the sales teams that you are mapped to.

You have strong relationships with key information security channel partners throughout the region including both National Partners and local headquartered regional partners. You are highly analytical and detail oriented, and you’re able to adapt as you deal with the different personals within a partner (CEO, Sales and Technical leadership, AEs, SAs, etc). You have strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills and are able to clearly and effectively articulate Abnormal Security's value, and help partners understand how Abnormal will be critical to their business growth and strategic initiatives.

In this job, you will bring these skills

Ability to apply a channel methodology that you have successfully implemented in the past to this role
Know who to work with and which partners can move the needle in the territory
Be a good presenter: ability to help partners clearly understand what pain points Abnormal Security can alleviate for their customers
Strong follow through with channel partners to turn the trainings and demand gen sessions into pipeline
Good at conflict resolution between partners, reps, and customers when needed
Organizational skill is key to good channel management. Being quick to respond to inquiries in a timely manner as well as not letting tasks fall through the cracks.
Grit; ability to find success in an early-stage environment without all the resources/teams available to much larger organizations
Good understanding of how to leverage other departments including Sales Engineering, Marketing, BDRs, Product and Customer Success

In addition to excelling at the core responsibilities and deliverables, you are considered by local Sales and SE leadership as a key "go-to" person to help with aspects outside pure channel-related topics (i.e. hiring, territory changes, QBRs, team structure, etc)

Role Responsibilities and Deliverables

Meet and exceed partner-sourced pipeline and booking targets (New Business Meetings, pipeline $ goals, % of total pipeline and bookings that are partner-sourced, etc)
Work with Abnormal Security channel and sales leadership to identify the right partners for us to target and recruit. This will include a set of national partners, regional partners, and eventually MSSPs.
Develop a go to market strategy and Partner Account Plans with our top partners that include a set of agreed upon set of sales goals, marketing goals, and certification goals.
Put together a channel enablement plan in place with the key target partners for both the sales and technical teams.
Create a demand generation strategy with the key partners alongside the Abnormal Security channel marketing team to drive customer demand in territory.
Work with the sales teams in your region to determine which prospects they deem their top targets to connect them with the right partners to help them to create a measurable channel sourced pipeline.
Regular interaction with partner principals, executives, and sales and sales management at existing and prospective partners
Drive alignment between Abnormal Field Leadership (RD, SE Manager, etc) and key partner regional leaders
Write and distribute Partner Win Wires every month to maintain and gain partner mindshare
Ensure that Abnormal-sourced opportunities are brought to our Focus Partners (as opposed to fulfilled via opportunistic partners)
Conduct regular sales training presentations with partner sales teams to ensure they understand and can articulate Abnormal Security's product and services
Work with the Marketing team to drive marketing programs with key partners and ensure that activities tie back to a successful ROI
Assist with driving pipeline, sales qualification, and closing of business
Develop and execute a regional strategy for recruiting new channel partners as needed to support growth
Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Abnormal Security's competitive positioning in the marketplace
Oversee relationship building activities and account mapping activities between Abnormal Security's sales organization and partners in the territory
In addition to core responsibilities and deliverables, you take responsibility for one or more National Partner relationships with specific monthly/quarterly activities that help Abnormal drive the National Partner relationship further (organize sales and technical enablement sessions; partner account org mapping; executive relationship building; etc)
Become a Subject Matter Expert on any number of channel topics (Deal Reg; Account Plans; PG plans; new PG initiatives; etc) and then share these best practices with other CAMs through formal and informal enablement
Develop expertise in different areas of Partner Program Operations (Requirements / Benefits, Enablement and Certification paths, other Partner Program, SPIFF payment platforms, etc) and take an active leadership role in getting these implemented at Abnormal
Become a trusted advisor to senior Sales and SE leadership for anything related to the business and territory

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