OneSpan is looking for a Channel Sales Director EMEA to join our team. This position is open to candidates who have their residence in Belgium.
You will be instrumental in recruiting, developing and managing our channel partners network to serve EMEA. You will leverage proven business and market development experience based on in-depth understanding of the channel including:
Reseller Channels;
System Integrators;
Referral partners;
Global alliances (Consulting firms; Global services providers; Audit advisors).
You will be responsible for collaboratively managing and executing the partner program in EMEA. The Channel Sales Director must be able to set objectives, determine sale strategies for our security product line, and implement methods for successful channel sales results with the support of the field sales organization. This individual’s success will be measured by sales through the channel. Based on the channel contribution and growth, he/she will grow a team of dedicated channel representatives to enable and support channel business in each region.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Define and deploy business plans to strengthen our relationship with existing channel partners, reviewing and re-assessing regularly;
Develop and execute strategy for recruiting new channel partners as needed to support growth;
Responsible for creating and executing a pipeline generation plan that leads to partners exceeding their annual incremental and net new business needs;
Properly articulate the Onespan strategy, value proposition, and solution offerings to partners;
Develop and execute regional partner go to market business plans that align with field sales market plans;
Responsible for aligning and engaging partners with multiple resources such as field sales, solutions engineers, support team, professional services, product management;
Lead partner enablement to support the development of active channel partners in the region and grow strategic partners with recurrent business;
Work with Sales reps and Marketing team to drive marketing programs to ensure that all activities tie back to OneSpan’s performance objectives;
Negotiate business terms and conditions that are within OneSpan guidelines and are fair to both OneSpan and resellers;
Provide accurately sales reports and activity, including pipeline and current sales opportunities within Salesforce.
Requirements
Five to seven years of proven experience of managing a tea, which build and manage resellers;
Manage business relationships with Global System integrators and/or Core Banking providers in EMEA (Accenture; Deloitte; Cognizant; Finastra; Fiserv; FIS; Technisys, Mambu, Globant,…);
Must be proactive, analytical, results oriented;
Strong consultative and presentation skills;
Work experience in tech companies with a direct and indirect sale model;
Understanding of the security marketplace and competitive landscape;
Have excellent time operational and project management and organizational skills;
Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills;
Negotiation and reseller management experience;
Ability to travel up to a minimum of 30% of the time;