Channel Sales Manager

SPS Commerce is a leading provider of cloud-based supply chain management solutions, serving a global network of retail trading partners. We foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment where innovation and continuous improvement are highly valued. Join SPS Commerce and be part of a dynamic team that's transforming the global retail supply chain!

Reporting to the Director of Partnerships, we are searching for a Channel Sales Manager to help accelerate SPS Revenue Recovery Partnerships Program. As a Channel Sales Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in fostering relationships with our valued clients and optimizing our partner programs for maximum performance and revenue generation. Join us in shaping the future of our partner program and making a meaningful impact in the ecommerce seller's space.

If you're passionate about building relationships, driving results, and thriving in a fast-paced environment, we'd love to hear from you!

• Partner Development:
  Develop and execute go-to-market strategies to maximize revenue potential.
• Provide exceptional deal support and negotiation expertise for both new and existing partners.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration to deliver value and exceed partners’ expectations.
• Partner Program Management:
  Lead the development of a comprehensive partner strategy alongside the partnership's leadership team.
• Identify and prospect potential partners, evaluating their suitability for strategic collaboration.
• Continuously assess market trends and industry landscapes to uncover new partner opportunities.
• Performance Tracking:
  Monitor and analyse key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the effectiveness of partner campaigns and identify areas for improvement.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  
  Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams such as Sales, Marketing, Product Marketing, and Finance, and ensure synergy across teams.
• Act as a bridge between departments, fostering communication and understanding of shared goals.
• Implement strategies that enhance collaboration and drive collective success.
• Create a thorough annual business plan that details the specific markets, activities, and milestones required to meet sales revenue and lead generation objectives.
• Carry forward detailed business plans to senior management and business executives, based on collective value propositions for both companies.
• Develop and maintain financial and non-financial metrics to measure the effectiveness of our channel partner relationships, both for SPS Commerce and for our partners.
• Leverage your business plan to educate the other departments at SPS Commerce on the goals of your business such that they can participate in and understand their role in assisting you to fully execute on your objectives.
• Articulate SPS value proposition for the entire product suite.
• Work closely with other SPS sales organizations when independent VARs and or System Integrators are involved, winning the support of these third-party companies to increase our win rates, and ultimately bringing these partners formally into the SPS Ecosystem.

• Proven Experience:
  
  You have 3-5 years of experience in acquiring, and managing strategic partnerships that drove revenue growth, ideally in the B2B SaaS industry, and in a fast-paced scale-up environment.
• Stakeholder Management:
  You excel at building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders at all levels, ensuring everyone is kept informed and engaged.
• You can work with anyone, and you can quickly and effectively assess what is important to any given stakeholder, and how to influence across reporting lines to ensure everyone is working in parallel to achieve the outcomes needed for the business.
• Adaptability:
  You thrive in unstructured environments and can quickly adapt to changes.
• You're comfortable introducing structure where needed and can navigate the complexity of a start-up with ease.
• You don’t cling to process for the sake of process – you understand that process is a tool to be used alongside many others to be maximally effective.
• Strategic Thinker:
  You have a knack for seeing the bigger picture and understand…