Channel Account Manager wanted: Apply Now
ID 2019-3938
Job Location(s) ZA-Sandton
Position Type Permanent – Full Time
More information about this job:
Overview
Are you an individual who drives efficiency and can scale further?
About Mimecast
Founded in 2003 in London by Peter Bauer and Neil Murray, Mimecast is a Nasdaq Listed business with 12 offices around the globe including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Dubai, London, Boston, San Francisco, Jersey, Chicago, Dallas and Melbourne. Mimecast is a truly multinational business with a wide array of opportunities for the right people.
Not many people can say that they work for a business that has achieved such staggering year on year growth as well as so many prestigious industry awards which highlight and recognize this growth as well as Mimecasts’ stability and forward thinking approach to email. We’ve worked hard to thoughtfully build great products that truly address critical business needs. And we’re proud to be recognized by thought leaders in the technology community for all that we’ve accomplished. Some of our awards include being awarded the ‘Tech Growth Business of the Year’ at the UK tech awards (2018), Continuity and Resilience Provider Service/Product award at the 2018 BCI Africa Award, voted as The Best Performing Company – Security & Infrastructure Software’ by independent technology sector research provider, Megabuyte, in their Quoted25 scorecard rankings (2018), to name a few.
We understand that success is built on our people and therefore we take hiring very seriously. Only people that represent our passion, energy and commitment to the big picture will be considered for a rare spot in this company that is genuinely going somewhere and fast.
To ensure continued accelerated growth we are looking for brilliant people to join our super charged Team where your energy and commitment will have a direct effect on your own value creation. To be successful you need to be excited by the opportunity to apply your progressive knowledge and thinking as well as by the opportunity to continually stretch and learn. You will not be ‘a number’ so with that comes greater responsibility and commitment. Be ready to operate at full capacity!
Check out our website for further information about Mimecast and the other job opportunities available.
About the role
Manage the day to day activities required to enable and activate the unmanaged reseller base of Mimecast South Africa. This is done through activating and managing the unmanaged partner base, attending to the less than 50 seat existing customers and enabling them on our platform to identify possible upsell potential. A final function would be to support and book the under 50 seat new business orders.
Reporting to the Channel Operations Manager, this role will also effort to internally support the channel and sales organisations with program, compliance, systems, education and key metric reporting in effort of scale across the channel eco system.
Who we are looking for:
Energetic;
Passionate about Technology;
Able to work collaboratively within a team environment, whilst driving specific objectives individually;
Driven for success;
Adaptable and flexible;
Neat and presentable;
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Unmanaged partners (+300) reactive and program driven
Partner portal: support; training and management
Partner enablement and support on training, new products, product knowledge, etc.
Partner agreement management
Customers & Prospects below 50 seats (+2000) reactive and program driven
Upsell – Product
New business quotes, value proposition and partner support
Internal Sales Support
Internal quote support
Netsuite management, leads, opportunities and prospects
Sub 50 seat new and upsell business deal management
On orders placed through Partner and MSP Portals
Internal Channel Team support
Supporting the Channel organisation with Sales and Technical training events and administration (Portal access, Academy access, CRM updates).
Keep contact details up to date, do regular reporting and ensure all partners are adhering to their partner program requirements.
Description, maintenance and reporting for Channel and promotion activities
Maintain a library of assets to support the Channel team.
Provide support to the sales team and Partner Account Management team in respect of the following:
Centralising Customer Agreements; Partner Agreements
Template and database management
Document drafting
Legal research
Qualifications
Essential Skills and Experience:
Within this corporate IT environment, you will be required to have:
Essential
Be able to work programmatically and efficiently tackle tasks
Competent on Excel, word, power point
Build and maintain reports to surface key information.
Understand what the sales process is and how to close a sale.
Clearly articulate and explain the value and benefits of our solution to partners and clients.
Strong understanding of customer experience and how to delight customers.
Demonstrate a clear ability to engage and build trust with partners.
Desirable
Work in a structured and organized fashion to achieve your goals.
Work with large amounts of data in a structured manner to gather information.
Qualifications:
Qualification beneficial, but not essential. Apply Now
Source: Jobs365
