Director of Channel Sales
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Director of Channel Sales role at KnowBe4, a global leader in Human Risk Management, focused on building and managing channel partnerships in the German market. The position drives sales growth through partner relationships while promoting KnowBe4's AI-powered security solutions to organizations worldwide.
Job Description
KnowBe4 is the global leader in Human Risk Management, trusted by over 70,000 organizations worldwide to secure their employees and AI agents for over 15 years. We're pioneering a new era of security. AI-powered since 2016. And market-leading since day one.
Our HRM+ combines continuous risk intelligence, advanced technical defenses, and personalized training to help organizations build strong security cultures. We help organizations understand, measure, and reduce human risk across their entire workforce, defending against, deepfakes, and emerging AI-powered threats.
We believe that protecting organizations from cyberthreats and creating a positive environmental impact go hand in hand. True resilience is collective, it requires us to protect our people, our data, and our planet.
Please submit your resume in English.
To learn more about our team and office culture in Berlin, Germany, visit the following links.
Careers Page: https://www.knowbe4.com/careers/locations/berlin
Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Location/KnowBe4-Berlin-Location-EI_IE969384.0,7_IL.8,14_IC2622109.htm
The Director of Channel Sales is responsible for leading a team of Channel Sales representatives to drive sales efforts to meet and exceed Net New Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) targets from a specified Area. This is an extremely hands-on role that will actively manage their teams who are responsible for building partnerships and growing Net New business through strong partnerships within a specified Area. The Director will align with the strategy for Channel Sales growth to execute strategic plans, grow pipeline and achieve revenue goals.
Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of Channel Sales representatives to execute revenue strategies, and exceed KPIs and ARR targets.
- Drive the day-to-day activities of Channel Sales reps through daily team standups, close analysis of sales statistics and pipeline reviews.
- Engage with partners directly to build strategic relationships and growth of key partnerships.
- Assist Channel Sales reps in building partner sales engagements and closing deals with partners.
- Develop, drive and guide our partner activities to foster excellent relationships with new and existing partners aligned to the partner stratification to grow net new revenue.
- Conduct weekly rhythm of the business reviews with VP and other sales enablement teams to identify trends and provide feedback on areas of opportunity and improvement.
- Validate sales representative staging and Area pipeline health to ensure accurate forecasting.
- Collaborate with senior leadership and SMB, Mid-Market and Enterprise leaders to align the business and drive growth through partners.
- Collaborate with Area Customer Success Leader to ensure the teams are aligned with all sales strategies and goals.
- Conduct interviews with potential sales candidates to build a world class sales team.
- Manage Area sales budget requests for events, trade shows etc.
- Cooperate with People Operations to manage all HR-related issues within your team e.g. interviewing new candidates, helping with career development for high potential employees, and managing average and low performers.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum 6-8 years Channel sales experience required
- Minimum 5 years of people management experience in the assigned area required of 8 or more employees
- Experience in IT Channel Sales (SaaS preferred)
- Bachelor degree or equivalent higher education experience, desirable
- Experience collaborating with Partner businesses and leading
- Channel sales teams, desirable
- Familiarity with standard concepts and practices within the IT,
- Security, Cloud Email Security or Cybersecurity industry, desirable
- Experience with Salesforce, a plus
- Experience with Gmail and Google Docs
- Experience with MS Office (Word and Excel)
- Experience with web browsers (Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.)
- Strong verbal and written communications
- Excellent time management and organization skills
- Excellent strategic planning, problem solving and analytical skills
- Infectious positive, can-do attitude
- Ability to provide productive feedback and coaching to sales leaders and teams
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Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.
Individuals seeking employment at KnowBe4 are considered without prejudice to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/request-accommodation.
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