Channel Development Manager

WatchGuard embraces a Flexible Work Philosophy. Most of our employees can choose to work from the office at home or any combination of the two. We’ve built a global workforce of outstanding team members and a flexible culture built on trust collaboration and belonging.

About the Position

Our organization is seeking an NAMER Senior Channel Development Manager with exceptional acumen and expertise to leverage our strengths to generate opportunities with new security services partners. In this pivotal role you will lead our efforts in identifying recruiting and nurturing strategic channel partners to drive business growth and expand our market presence. The ideal candidate should have a solid understanding of business strategy marketing and business development techniques. Join our team to spearhead our business to new heights of success and growth.

Position Responsibilities

• Market Analysis/Partner Identification:

• Market research to identify potential partners.

• Analyze industry trends to identify gaps and opportunities for collaboration.

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive list of potential partners.

• Collaborate with Field Marketing to identify and contact target partners.

• Partner recruitment and enablement:

• Execute recruitment and enablement activities track and measure metrics.

• Develop Partner Business Plan: Account mapping stakeholders etc.

• Lead generation and sales development (POC training complex quotes help answering RFPs and Public tenders).

• Performance Monitoring:

• Monitor and evaluate the performance of partnerships.

• Provide regular reports and recommendations for improvement.

• Continuously optimize partner recruitment strategies based on feedback and results.

Skills and Qualifications

• Ability to understand develop and manage complex partnerships.

• Experience developing service security partners.

• Ability to self-manage and work remotely.

• Soft skills: resilience communication skills objective-oriented growth mindset trailblazer negotiation skills self-start and team worker

Experience

• 10+ years’ experience in direct and indirect sales in related industry

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training in business sales or marketing

Compensation

The base salary range for this position is $130000 - $140000 exclusive of benefits. This position is also eligible for commissions up to  30% of on target earnings. Your base salary compensation will be based on your individual skills education and experience. Please keep in mind that the above range is the full base salary range for this role; hiring at the maximum of the range is not typical in order to allow for future salary growth.

U.S. Benefits

·       Under our Flexible Work Philosophy most employees can work from an office at home or any combination of the two.

·       Comprehensive benefits plan including medical dental life vision disability and life insurance

·       Healthcare FSA

·       FSA with employer contribution

·       13 holidays including a floating holiday Juneteenth and your birthday

·       15 days of paid annual leave

·       9 days of paid sick time

·       Paid parental leave

·       401(k) with employer match

Other Perks

·       Education assistance program

·       Dependent Care FSA match

·       Adoption assistance

·       Fertility care support

·       Backup care for family and pets

·       A growing network of employee resource groups

·       Employee referral program

·       Virtual boot camp

·       Employee Assistance Program

Why Work for WatchGuard?

WatchGuard is a global leader in network security and intelligence advanced endpoint protection multi-factor authentication and secure Wi-Fi. Our award-winning products and services are trusted worldwide by more than 18000 security resellers and service providers to protect more than 250000 customers. Our technology keeps our customers ahead of increasingly sophisticated hackers and has fueled record revenues at WatchGuard.

WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle Washington with team members working remotely and in offices worldwide.

Our company culture places an intense focus on our customers and employees. From the newest employee to our CEO you'll find that each person at WatchGuard embodies our Core Values: Accountability Community Belonging Action Innovation and Customer-Centric. Learn more about our company culture at www.watchguard.com/wgrd-careers.

WatchGuard provides equal employment opportunities for all qualified employees regardless of their race color national origin religion ancestry creed pregnancy age sex sexual orientation (including gender expression or identity) marital status mental or physical disability honorably discharged veteran or military status or any other category protected by federal state or local laws. Our equal employment opportunity (or EEO) policy focuses solely on the talent hard work contributions and actual results achieved by each WatchGuard employee and on the potential of employment candidates to make such contributions. We consider focusing on an employee's protected characteristics rather than on talent hard work and actual work results to violate our EEO policy. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we are committed to a diverse workforce. WatchGuard participates in E-verify.

WatchGuard is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability.