Channel Development Manager (Southeast)

Company Description

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.

At Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table. We believe that fostering an inclusive environment, where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome, is essential for driving creativity and innovation.

Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as Best Engineering Team, Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest standards of quality and performance in everything we do.

Job Description

Who You'll Work With

As a team member of the Arista Sales team, you are the face of Arista to our customers; their internal champion for the problems they need to solve. As their champion you will align Arista’s technical resources to achieve your customer’s business outcome. You will partner with some of the most skilled Customer Engineers in the industry in addition to our Professional Services and Executive teams to help them understand how to execute on your customer’s behalf. Our sales teams have a culture of team success, where you’ll collaborate and be supported by like minded sales professionals. This role typically reports to a Regional Sales Director or Area VP of Sales. 

What You'll Do

As a Channel Development Manager (CDM) at Arista Networks, your primary responsibility will be to drive partner-initiated revenue growth with our most strategic channel partners (WWT, Presidio, ePlus, CDW, SHI) in the Southeast region. Utilize your exceptional presentation and relationship-building skills to convey Arista’s value proposition (spanning Data Center, Campus and recently added…Network Observability) to a diverse group of sales and technical staff while conducting on-going sales enablement.

You’ll be an integral member of the regional sales team, ensuring that we maximize field collaboration with our "go to" partners. Leading candidates will possess strong critical-thinking mentality, a commanding presence, and an entrepreneurial spirit.

Your activities will center on building solid rapport with our channel partners in the region to achieve measurable results in brand awareness across the channel, increased revenue and expanded share in campus market. Your success in this role will span the creation and execution of extraordinary business plans with each focus partner. You’ll be measured primarily on the joint business outcome with your regional partners while demonstrating your ability to work across all levels within the partner organization.

Alternate Locations: Charlotte, NC | Nashville, TN | Jacksonville, FL | Orlando, FL

Responsibilities included but not limited to the following;

• Develop and leverage executive partner relationships and continuously increase Arista mindshare across the organization
• Generate enthusiasm/drive among partner sales and engineering teams to sell Arista products and services
• Systematic cadence with ELITE, and ELITEPLUS partners to sharpen prospecting skills related to use cases where Arista excels 
• Management/Oversight of Arista partners in region with whom you will conduct on-going business planning
• Active participation and contributing to the sales process with partners
• Business plans will be completed for each focus partner, reviewed/updated quarterly with KPIs
• Acute accountability for jointly-developed goals 
• Bi-weekly review of partner-initiated opportunities.
• Manage and enforce program level compliance with up-leveled partners
• Build, administer, manage and/or deliver accreditation training for partner sales and technical staff 
• Develop and drive incentive programs (SPIFs) to scale pipeline build and accelerate closing business
• Oversight of MDF including funding allocation, resourcing and logistics to drive success in all partner-related demand generation activities 
• Ensure that partner portal is equipped with the right assets to ensure partners are effective in communicating ARISTA’s value proposition. 
• Recruit/Enlist/Enable new partners 

Qualifications

• BS/CS/BA Degree or equivalent in addition to previous background in sales or business development
• 3+ years of dynamic channel management experience within the network industry
• Sales experience a plus
• Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills
• Desire to be part of and contribute to building a world-class channel program 
• Tenacious and assertive ‘hunter’ mentality…just get it done!
• Ability to pivot between having a business value conversation with sales executives and a technical discussion with SEs and SAs
• Strong business acumen
• Must be available for impromptu partner meetings across region…open to 40%+ travel (local and regional)

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Additional Information

Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer. Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal, state, or law law. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.