Cloud Partner Account Manager with German (DACH Region)
Acronis
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Posted:
May 1, 2023
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Remote
About the position
Acronis is seeking a Cloud Partner Success Manager to join their Inside Sales Channel Management organization. The ideal candidate will have experience in account management and a passion for data protection and cyber security. The main responsibilities of the role include driving revenue growth through account planning with dedicated partners, increasing adoption of new services, and creating a best-in-class partner experience. The successful candidate will have strong communication and interpersonal skills, be self-motivated, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. Acronis is an equal opportunity employer.
Responsibilities
- Drive quarter over quarter cloud revenue growth working through assigned partners
- Make a territory analysis and planning for dedicated geographies to identify top potential partners
- Perform account planning with all managed partners with level of certain details depending on partner’s engagement, loyalty and responsiveness
- Train new and existing partners with existing and new products
- Guide every partner through onboarding and enablement stage equipping with all needed knowledge, resources and tools
- Guide partners to adopt Acronis Automation and Security tooling to increase their operational efficiency
- Motivate and enable partners to sell Acronis services to existing customer base of the partner, attract new customers to partner and help to retain existing customer to partner
- Drive partner’s satisfaction and acting as a trusted advisor and single point of contact throughout the entire partner lifecycle
- Drive successful upsell/cross sell initiatives with partner to increase new services attach rate
- Put maximum efforts to avoid churn and retain a partner
- Engage and orchestrate all needed internal resources to help dedicated partners’ growth
- Profile every managed partner on vendors and tools they sell/use putting all information into Partner Passport. Every CSP Passport should have not less than 80% fields filled out
- Know partner’s lifecycle management and be able to lead a partner along it through a set of regular activities focused on educating, evangelizing, making committed
- Maintain a regularity/frequency of contact with every partner depending on priority
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of sales and marketing experience in the MSP channel software industry on similar positions such as channel sales, partner account management or channel development—experience in equivalent role highly desired
- Experience in selling Professional Service Automation (PSA) or Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software services
- In-depth channel and field sales knowledge with understanding of the cloud market business model
- Strong presentational, communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to clearly articulate product’s different features and answer all customer questions
- Self-motivated with a high level of discipline, attention to detail, and ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment while still maintaining a high-level of accuracy
- Team-player with a positive attitude who thrives in a global environment, eager to do more and help out, views challenging situations as opportunities
- Comfortable with ambiguity and willingness to adapt to changes in responsibilities and strategies
- Highly persistent in follow-up conversations, negotiations and closing sales skills
- Strong presentational, communication, interpersonal, planning and time management skills
- Fluent English and German
- Passion and commitment to succeed by working hard and never giving up.
Benefits
- Meal vouchers
- Supplemental health insurance
- Annual paid leave of 25 working days
- Tickets for conferences and seminars