DCG Channel Sales Manager
Lenovo -
Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaPosted 5 years ago55People have clicked1 open position
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Key Responsibilities & Performance Expectations
The Channel Account Management will be responsible for selling Lenovo’s Data Center Solutions and services including servers, storage, and networking devices (including the supporting management software) contracts to the Resellers within his territory. This individual should have a sales background with a proven track record in a similar working environment. The chosen Channel Account Sales Manager will work in an entrepreneurial start-up environment and perform activities as outlined below. He will leverage DCG Partner program, LBP, Solutions incentives in order to grow the share of wallet and develop acquisitions target.
Main Responsibilities
- To identify, qualify and win new and incremental business opportunities to sell Lenovo’s capabilities and offerings
- To work with field sales and leverage relationships with assigned business partners to develop and drive a proactive approach into assigned Partners
- Utilize Lenovo’s programs to increase Share of Wallet within the allocated partners.
- Ability to sell the Data Center Portfolio, consisting of servers, storage, and networking devices including the supporting management software and services.
- Understand Partners requirements and ensure investment in the Lenovo business.
- Identify and secure cross selling and up selling opportunities
- Driving sales initiatives and marketing campaigns
- Raise service issues, warranty calls, registration
- Produce accurate Partner account plans, sales forecasts and ensure sales activity is tracked using the required reporting tools on a daily and weekly basis
- Hold responsibility for uncovering opportunities, selling the benefits of the full catalogue of the Data Center products.
- Good business acumen with ability to understand margin, Total Cost of Ownership and return on investment.
Job Requirements
- Minimum five (5) years sales experience in the Enterprise Data Center market with a proven track record of success in Managing resellers and/or Distributors
- Proven ability to sell Data Center solutions consisting of servers, storage, and networking devices including the supporting management software and services.
- Deep understanding of the core technologies, industry trends, and workloads shaping the Enterprise Data Center market including Cloud, Converged Systems, and Analytics.
- Proven ability to contact, qualify, develop and close leads face to face, by phone, by chat, and by email.
- Systematic, persistent and efficient when managing both time and accounts.
- Proficient with MS Office and sales CRM solutions (Salesforce.com).
- Fluent language skills in English (mandatory) and Arabic (preferred).
- Excellent verbal and written communication and sales skills.
- Ability to carry a quota and overachieve month over month.
- Be part of a team, with best in breed execution quality.
Behaviors & Work Attitude
- Knows how to create opportunities, and close transactional deals
- Entrepreneurial Mind-set with self-starting capability - Can do attitude
- Desire and ability to provide an outstanding customer experience and go the extra mile in everything you do
- Push your distributors, own and drive the people agenda
- Problem solver and decision-maker
- Prioritize customer focus, able to work under pressure of senior clients
- Able to align people and influence decision making, effectively working in a matrix
- Collaborative working style and high commitment to get the job done
- Persuasive with expertise and facts - Ability to challenge and debate critical issues
- Demonstrates integrity in all business interactions and honours personal commitments
- Demonstrated commitment to high professional ethical standards and a diverse workplace
- Able to present information in a concise way
- High comfort-level working in a global, diverse environment
- Be proactive, quick, bold and innovative in all you do
- Adapt communications and approaches to drive negotiations with various partners to conclusion, resulting in common agreements. Maintain and cultivate senior executive relationships.
- Demonstrate expertise in building customers relationships, which promote and enable a deep understanding the corporate Reseller business goals and objectives
- The position requires travelling within the assigned territory
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