[Hiring] Channel Account Manager @F5

Role Description

This position is responsible for increasing revenue in region/territory/district through identifying, recruiting and developing opportunity generating partnerships with partners. In addition, this position is focused on driving the partners to operate as an extension of F5's direct sales team through effective sales and technical training, demand generation marketing efforts, and mutual business planning.

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
• Sales Training – Ensure that partner is able to effectively position and sell F5 solutions. Work with the F5 sales team to drive partner sales training opportunities; ensuring partners have the tools to identify opportunities, sell F5 solutions, and fully understand F5’s UNITY Partner program.
• Pipeline Growth and Management – Identify, in conjunction with partners, new sales opportunities. Ensure partners, F5 sales reps, and management are working together in the sales process, lead generation, registering opportunities, accurately forecast bookings, and tracking to required bookings goals established by the partner’s UNITY Partner tier.
• Relationship Management – Develop strong top to bottom relationships throughout the partner organization (Management, sales teams, technical teams, and marketing) ensuring partner compliance with the F5’s UNITY Partner Program and fostering a well-developed relationship between F5/partner sales and technical teams.
• Excel at Conflict Management - Excellent conflict management skills, with ability to be fair and firm with F5 team and partners.
• Marketing & Demand Generation – Leverage F5 marketing funds to drive demand generation activities that generate the highest possible ROI. Manage channel marketing funds to ensure event and partner success.
• Account Mapping – Drive regular cadence of account mapping sessions with partners and the F5 sales team focused on driving net-new accounts and new opportunities in existing accounts.
• Business Planning – Work with partners to develop and execute a strategic business plan focused on driving new accounts, new opportunities, sales and technical competency, and incremental bookings growth.
• Special Projects & Reporting - Work on strategic initiatives as established by channel management and reporting business issues/opportunities as requested by channel and/or executive management.
• Build relationships with strategic eco-system business partners in the field (examples: VMware, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco).
• Recruit and develop new partner relationship to drive whitespace penetration, access to new vertical and technology markets.
• Create and execute awareness and training programs for the F5 sales force to highlight partners, educate on the UNITY Partner program, and actively participate in district QBRs.
• In North America, a Sr CAM can support a territory plus one or more small to midsize strategic partner accounts.
• Advanced Business Acumen - Well developed understanding of business and strategy.
• Influence/channel leadership - Trusted advisor status with District Manager; Channel leadership - ability to lead, positively influence and shape behavior of partners and TAMs/MAMs.
• F5 Messaging - Excels at delivering F5 story and messaging.
• Leverage F5 internal resources - Influence and obtain sponsorship from internal F5 groups to support programs at partners to drive incremental business opportunities for F5 and the partner.
• Actively engage with F5’s eco-system business partners to plan activities that will drive F5 awareness and opportunities with our partners.
• The position requires exceptional executive presence and ability to work across multiple executive roles to direct/educate/communicate our business plan priorities and progress.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Metrics

• Achieve quarterly business metrics for channels, including: PIO (Partner Initiated Opportunities), security and software attach rates, net-new accounts, competitive take-out, and other partner value-add metrics.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Highly efficient & organized / excellent time management skills.
• Highly developed, clear concise and compelling communication skills.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to articulate complex technology simply.
• Well-developed business acumen and understanding of business strategy.
• Excellent conflict management skills, with the ability to be fair & firm.
• Knowledge of enterprise networks, security and applications (desired).
• Detailed experience with Microsoft applications such as Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
• Clear, concise, and effective communicator - highly developed, clear concise and compelling communication skills.
• Excellent sales and management skills.
• Experience in two-tiered channel resale models.
• Background in software/hardware sales and distribution – with large Software, Hardware, Security and/or Networking Companies.
• Proven track record of success in sales and marketing programs.
• Strong knowledge of Application Delivery Networks and security.
• In-depth knowledge of partner organizations, processes, business drivers and internal operations.

Qualifications

• BA or Master's degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
• 8+ years of directly related experience, progressing to senior-level role(s).

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Duties will require being on call periodically and working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).
• Duties may require out of town travel up to 60% of the time.

Compensation

The annual base pay for this position is: $135,200.00 - $202,800.00. F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws.