Strategic Accounts Manager
At a glance
Manager-level Account Management role at Red Hat. Santiago · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Shape Red Hat’s value story with major solution partners to pursue both near-term wins and longer-range deals
- Drive partner and direct selling, including joint offerings and sales programs led with partners
- Show partners how Red Hat technology can fit into their offers and improve customer returns
- Set shared partner growth plans, track agreed measures and keep the work moving through implementation
- Engage partner executives and coordinate across vertical teams to grow Red Hat’s reach in customer accounts
What you bring
- At least four years selling software through partners or channels, along with experience in direct sales
- Prior work in industrial or food-related markets
- A record of building partner business, generating direct leads and growing revenue against sales targets
- Advanced English and strong written, spoken, presentation and follow-up communication
Who this fits
This role suits an experienced partner and direct-sales professional who can turn partner needs into joint offerings and work across teams. It is based in Santiago, Chile, with a hybrid arrangement, and requires willingness to travel.
From the employer
The Red Hat Sales team is looking for a Sales Account Manager to join us in Santiago, Chile. In this role, you will oversee sales activities across our solutions portfolio for Chile.
You'll manage and develop strategic sales business through our partners to guide sustainable long-term growth.
As a Sales Account Manager, you will also develop, implement, and manage joint business plans that identify key growth areas in the partner organization to help increase revenue and capitalize on Red Hat's technologies.
What you will do:
- Define Red Hat’s value propositions with leading solutions providers to win long-term and short-term opportunities
- Promote sales, focusing on joint solutions and opportunities, and on creating and guiding partner sales initiatives and direct sales
- Work with partners to demonstrate how Red Hat’s solutions and technologies can be integrated in their offerings to deliver a higher return on investment (ROI)
- Promote executive engagement on an ongoing basis to ensure that key strategies for increasing Red Hat's presence in partner customer accounts are met
- Build jointly-agreed-to business plans with partners and ensure implementation of business plans based on defined metrics
- Collaborate with other verticals to help promote their business objectives through the partner ecosystem
What you will bring:
- 4+ years of sales experience working with partners or channels in the software industry and experience with direct sales
- Previous experience within the industrial and food related markets
- Experience developing business with partners with individual quota carriers and generating direct sales leads
- Proven ability to significantly increase revenue and a record of managing organizations that deliver target sales and market share numbers
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, presentation, and follow-up skills
- Willingness to travel
- Highly motivated with the ability to work as part of a team and as catalyst of the team
- Ability to translate partner business needs into joint solutions and manage these initiatives
- Ability to perform under pressure and adapt to an ever-changing work environment
- Advanced English language skills
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.
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