Channel Business Manager jobs at Palo Alto in Turkey, Istanbul

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As an Associate Account Manager (AAM), You will support our customers in securing their cloud and on-premise environments, as well as their global workforce. Driven by the desire to solve their most critical cybersecurity challenges, You’ll work closely with Account Managers to guide clients toward the right solutions for every stage of threat prevention, detection, and response.

Your Impact

• Collaborate with Account Managers on new customer acquisition and the expansion of existing Palo Alto Networks customers
• Own pipeline generation activities, including customer analysis, prospecting, cold calling, outreach via email and LinkedIn, as well as organizing and participating in events
• Follow up on pre-qualified leads with the sales team to ensure they are processed timely and lead to pipeline creation
• Document all activities and customer interactions
• Support complex sales cycles in coordination with external partners and internal teams to deliver optimal customer outcomes
• Develop a strong understanding of the full Palo Alto Networks solution portfolio and the competitive landscape to effectively position offerings to customers
• Identify client needs, provide guidance and information around our products and services with the goal of increasing customer satisfaction
• Monitor industry news and trends, assessing their impact on Palo Alto Networks products and services
• Build long-term relationships with clients, partners, and internal stakeholders
• Be a high-energy individual with a strong desire to achieve top results with a dependable, positive "can-do" attitude over the phone and in person
• Consistently meet or exceed metrics set by leaders and managers
• Travel as necessary within the assigned territory

Your Experience

• Previous work experience in sales or business development, ideally within Public Sector/Healthcare accounts
• Hands-on experience with multiple sales techniques (including cold calls)
• Basic knowledge of cloud or SaaS-based environments
• Ability to understand technical concepts, possess enthusiasm for technology and to articulate clearly to all levels of technical aptitude
• Ability to adapt quickly to a fast-paced environment
• Self-driven, proactive, with a hunter mentality
• Ability to deliver engaging presentations
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills in German and English (spoken and written)
• Willingness to travel

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• You will drive and orchestrate complex sales cycles and work with our internal partners and teams to best serve the customer
• Your consultative selling experience will identify business challenges and create solutions for prospects and our customers
• Understand the competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectively position the portfolio of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Create clear goals and complete accurate forecasting through developing a detailed territory plan
• Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for that specific account
• Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
• Travel as necessary within your territory, and to company-wide meetings

Your Experience

• Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security industry - SASE technology is preferred
• Demonstrated experience selling complex solutions, value selling, and/or consultative sales techniques
• Technical aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems
• Identifies problems, reviews data, determines the root causes, and provides scalable solutions
• Cultivate relationships with our channel partners to bring channel-centric go-to-market approach for our customers
• Demonstrates in depth knowledge of the full sales cycle and the ability to follow a structured sales process
• Ability to take a holistic approach to problem solving by understanding the bigger picture, and considering complex interrelationships and outcomes
• Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

You will centre your role on relationship management to achieve measurable results in increased revenue, market share, and depth within each partner sales team at the assigned Partner Accounts. Your success in this role will span the creation and execution of unique business plans with each partner. You'll be measured primarily on the joint business executed with these strategic partners at the heart of the VAR, GSI & MSSP account teams. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders, including Global / International Account Directors.

Your experience across all channel routes to market (VAR, GSI, SP, CSP, and distribution) is essential. You must be able to navigate the entire channel and have long-standing existing relationships.

Your Impact

• Develop and execute business plans in collaboration with the Account Directors, driving all aspects of the partner relationship to maximize growth opportunities and ensuring the partner is well-positioned to deliver successful customer implementations and deployments
• Work well in a team environment to ensure partner and customer satisfaction
• Design a compelling value proposition that inspires this strategic partner to promote our solutions
• Develop/activate services based on our emerging and established technologies, increasing revenue growth, and liaise closely with our product teams to innovate new solutions and GTM strategies to drive new ways to differentiate in the market and take market share (drive scale)
• Provide clear and consistent communication (internally and externally) across the region with partners to build strong partnerships throughout your assignment
• Lead regular business performance and relationship reviews with senior management and various stakeholders
• Build and maintain the activity of performance reports and activity dashboards
• Work on your own initiative when it comes to partner development, solution creation, and garnering assistance across the business and partner

Your Experience

• Experience in Channel Management roles within the enterprise software ecosystem and network security industry
• Understanding of the local Turkish market
• Fluent language skills in English and Turkish
• Understanding of VAR, SP & GSI operating models
• Knowledge of sales, marketing, and solution development
• Demonstrate strong initiative and ability to think creatively with excellent presentation, written, and overall communication skills
• Consistent track record of leading complex sales situations through negotiation and conflict resolution

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

You will represent the company as a technical advisor tasked with building excitement and support for the company with the partner’s sales and technical teams. You will travel and take ownership of the technical relationship with our channel partners to demo, train, enable, communicate with and continually engage technical partner team members by dedicatedly managing and delivering technical content and establishing relationships either onsite, online, and via telephone. You will have specific recruitment, enablement, training and communication objectives aligned with the objectives of the company.

Your Impact

• Ability to align partner needs and strategy with the value of Palo Alto Networks
• Provide product demos on all aspects of the Palo Alto Networks Platform
• Provide technical enablement and training to strategic/national partners
• Strategically position Palo Alto Networks with other technologies sold by partners
• Participate in partner business planning activities by supporting the development and execution of the partner technical business plan
• Facilitate the planning and preparation of partner Sales Engineers (SEs) in achieving Palo Alto Networks and industry certifications
• Oversee partner pre-sales activities, including competitive analysis, test plans, demos, proofs of concept, and RFPs
• Cross-communicate Palo Alto Networks and partner value propositions, especially between partner and Palo Alto Networks field SEs
• Understand and effectively present the Palo Alto Networks’ security platform
• Create, execute, and review a technical readiness plan with the CBM/regional sales team, including measurable achievements to track progress
• Provide localized technical training to partner’s pre-sales and post-sales technical resources
• Support product/service training of the partner sales teams
• Educate and promote the use of Palo Alto Networks support model and effective use of available resources
• Collaborate with the CBM/regional sales team on the development and management of the channel partner business plan and mutual action plans
• Understand and communicate the business advantages of a partnership with Palo Alto Networks
• Develop a strong understanding of Palo Alto Networks’ channel partner objectives

Your Experience

• General understanding of local/national partner community, technology trends, and competitive landscape
• Strong communication and listening skills, including effective delivery of presentations
• Ability to write and speak clearly and precisely, and structure information logically for digestion
• Ability to ask questions to clarify situations before acting or making decisions
• An understanding of how to qualify partner needs to create accord
• Flexible and adaptable self-starter with strong relationship-building skills
• Intellectual curiosity, humility, accountability, and positive approach
• Experience as a SE or Systems Integrator
• Demonstrable experience with systems installation, configuration, and administration of routers/switches, UNIX/Linux and Windows-based systems (prior Active Directory/LDAP experience desirable)
• Experience emphasizing L2-L4 Networking (L2 Switching architectures including Spanning Tree, VLANs/trunking, IP routing including static routes, OSPF and BGP, route redistribution, L4 Load-balancing)
• Industry knowledge of security and network product and technology trends
• Knowledge of competitive solutions and selling strategies
• Experience selling, demonstrating, installing or troubleshooting network security products
• Modern datacenter and public cloud infrastructure and technology is preferred
• Modern network threats and malware is preferred
• Network forensics and incident response is preferred
• Automation and orchestration tools and Endpoint security products technologies is preferred
• Relevant industry certifications – Eg. SANS, CISSP, CCIE, etc is preferred

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.