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The Channel Solutions Consultant Manager is the evolution of the traditional Channel Sales Engineer Manager role, aligning how we lead teams to best serve our Partners who represent Palo Alto Networks platforms and services, ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks.
Job Responsibility:
Recruit and hire new Channel Solutions and Domain Consultants into the region and hire the best talent in the industry
Responsible for training, mentoring, and reviewing employees on your team, keeping them engaged and successful in their careers
Support the partner Solutions Consultant team in complex evaluations, problem-solving, and challenging customer environments
Define, create and monitor individual development plans for your team
Works closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions
Provide effective technical leadership in customer interactions to include sharing security trends and standard methodologies employed by other customers to actively be part of the selling process
Drive Palo Alto Networks Platformization efforts within your accounts
Work closely with the Domain Specialist Manager to ensure optimal use of resources and align the required resources to the projects you are handling
Act as an escalation point to collaborate with pre-sales and post-sales teams for any issues that arise
Build and maintain relationships with key customers to solidify reference accounts and to assist the account teams with defining plans to drive more business
Present to partners as our expert in your area at all levels
partner SEs to Executives
Discuss competitor products in the marketplace and position ours as the best alternative
Working with Product Management, Technical Marketing, and R&D to build requirements and product features for our large customers and provide feedback from customers
50-75% travel within the region
Work with your Channel Business Manager counterpart to develop a technical strategy that accelerates growth for our partners. Identify key verticals, markets, use cases, and solutions to focus on, and devise a comprehensive strategy and engagement model tailored to your region or district.
Requirements:
Experience as a pre-sales System Engineer Manager
Experience as a Senior System Engineer/Specialist
Experience working with Resellers, Distributors or MSSPs
Industry knowledge of security product market trends and directional awareness of our roadmap and technology development efforts
Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
Proficient in English
Nice to have:
Experience in selling, designing, implementing or managing one or more of the following solutions: Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
Knowledge of competitor offerings and products
Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure the successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions
Quota-driven attitude, focused on being a trusted advisor to partners