Channel Sales Manager, Saudi Arabia

**Channel Sales Manager
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Hungry, Humble, Honest, with heart!

The opportunity**

Nutanix is looking for a Channel Sales Manager for Saudi Arabia to join our team in Riyadh, where you will be responsible for fostering the relationship between Nutanix and channel & OEM partners throughout Saudi Arabia.

As a Channel Sales Manager, you have a high-impact, very prominent role. You will be responsible for establishing Nutanix as an innovative technology and business leader in the channel and for helping close a growing number of transactions within his region. Your role will be techno-commercial, with a strong focus on the healthy mix between technical and business solution selling, sales enablement, and relationship building.

 Your Responsibilities

• Recruit, enable, and drive new partners in the country/territory
• Engage as part of the Channel and regional sales and marketing teams to meet and exceed the regional team's sales goals.
• Drive and close deals in collaboration with the sales team and the channel partners in the region.
• Present Nutanix Solutions value proposition to our Partners and assist/enable partners in field prospect meetings, demos, and offers.
• Manage and deliver technical enablement plans with our key Partners, tied to key measurables (sales & engineering certifications).
• Identify and collaborate with partners around solution bundles for various verticals: VDI, Private Cloud, DR, Big Data, Health Care, Education, etc.

 About You

• Thorough understanding of one or more of the following areas: Application Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Networking, Storage, and Platform Performance/Sizing
• Ability to maintain relationships with sales, technical and marketing resources at all levels of a Partner and field organization (Sales Engineers and Sales reps)
• Thorough understanding of sales techniques and processes including the ability to understand customer needs, overcome objections, assist in the development of business cases, and close deals
• Ability to assist and train partner technical resources to run demos and offers for end users
• Forecasting on channel sales pipeline and delivering sales results through the channel
• Flexible, dependable, self-starter, and capable of quickly learning new products and technologies

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 5-8 years prior Channel Sales experience, solution selling, or Reseller management
• Experience in a high-tech sales environment with a demonstrated track record of success in driving customer adoption of technology and reaching channel sales goals.
• Experience selling servers, storage hardware, networking, or virtualization
• Excellent Arabic and English oral and written communication skills are required for this position

**About our business
**Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyper-converged infrastructure solutions, making computing invisible anywhere. Companies around the world use Nutanix software to leverage a single platform to manage any app, at any location, at any scale for their private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. 

Meet The Hiring Manager (Shaista Ahmed, Director of Emerging Markets - https://wwwareinkedin.com/in/shaista-ahmed-619the15/)

• Shaista joined Nutanix in 2019 but has been associated with Nutanix since 2013 working with a distributor representing Nutanix in the Middle East, over the years it has been amazing to see the company transform from an HCI appliance to a full fledge subscription company, with a huge value proposition to every type of organization across the globe.

• She has worked across multiple companies over the years and has learned people work with people irrespective of the technology/ product they represent, and always fosters strong relationships to be successful. 

• Her biggest personal win has been to be able to inspire young talent across my family, friends & work environment to dream big, the world is yours to conquer. 

• Shaista's most significant win on the professional front is to work with the most talented dream team who make plans a reality, & think out of the box to deliver business objectives. She’s now looking for someone who has self-drive, wakes up every morning with an attitude to change the world, loves to take ownership & eager to be better than the best.  

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