Junior Partner Sales Executive - Riyadh Office, Saudi Arabia (Saudi Nationality)

Job Summary

The Red Hat Sales team in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is looking for a Partner Sales Executive to join us in Riyadh. In this regional role, you'll promote sales, ensure customer satisfaction, and manage partner engagement throughout KSA, Northern Gulf and Levant to close deals. You will develop and maintain relationships with our internal Ecosystem team and with our partners, regional and global system integrators (SIs), and independent software vendors (ISVs). As a Partner Sales Executive, you will serve as a Red Hat’s ambassador and a subject matter expert for business-related challenges of our commercial customer base and articulate the value of Red Hat solutions to your partner sales counterparts.

What you will do

• Increase Red Hat’s revenue and customer value and solve customer’s needs by connecting the aligned partners to sales opportunities through join account planning, lead sharing, and market or demand generation activities

• Attain pod quota for new acquisitions, expansion, and renewals by forecasting and managing partner deal pipeline progression, deal status, and performance

• Develop joint account plans with partner account managers and partners to motivate customer demand and consumption; identify white space and acquisition targets and expand existing accounts to new use cases and workloads

• Deliver and integrate partner expertise into sales cycle activities to facilitate solution selling; identify and integrate partners into account and territory plans

• Cooperate with the Red Hat Ecosystem team to identify partner capability and capacity gaps in account base

• Work with partner account managers to identify key sales counterparts at partners

• Collaborate with Red Hat and partner marketing for demand-generation within pod

• Work with Customer Success team, renewals, and partners to ensure customer time to value and renewal

• Advocate within Red Hat to include partners in opportunities and grow customer value

• Coordinate with partner account managers to motivate pipeline velocity and alleviate friction points, highlighting needs to connect partners to Red Hat resources or programs

What you will bring

• Proven experience in a software vendor

• Saudi National is mandatory

• Communication skills with the ability to engage a diverse set of stakeholders in a matrix organization

• Understanding of industry trends & competitive landscapeSolid understanding of partner ecosystem and how to sell together with channel partners is a plus

• Ability to cultivate long-term relationships and develop advocates across customer and partner organizations

• Experience selling IT solutions 

• Willingness to travel across the region

• Excellent communication skills in English and Arabic

Nice to have:

• Ability to articulate the value of Red Hat’s solutions, Red Hat’s differentiation & value proposition, and the Red Hat opportunity to partner sales counterparts

• Strategic orientation and value engineering skills to position and sell solutions to customer needs with and through partners

• Proven experience selling complex IT solutions to mid-sized organizations and multiple decision makers by engaging the partner ecosystem

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