Partner Account Manager

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. 
 

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Role overview:

This is a strategic partner sales position that is responsible for increasing revenue in region/territory/district through identifying, recruiting and developing opportunities, generating partnerships with partners, defined as: Value Added Resellers (VARs). In addition, this position is focused on driving the partners to operate as an extension of F5's direct sales team through effective sales and technical training, demand generation marketing efforts and mutual business planning.

What you will do:

• Sales Training – Ensure that partner is able to effectively position and sell F5 solutions. Work with the F5 sales team to drive partner sales training opportunities; ensuring partners have the tools to identify opportunities, sell F5 solutions, and fully understand F5’s UNITY Partner program.
• Pipeline Growth and Management – Identify, in conjunction with partners, new sales opportunities. Ensure partners, F5 sales reps and management are working together in the sales process, lead generation, registering opportunities, accurately forecast bookings and tracking to required bookings goals established by the partner’s UNITY Partner tier.
• Relationship Management – Develop strong top to bottom relationships throughout the partner organization (Management, sales teams, technical teams and marketing) ensuring partner compliance with the F5’s UNITY Partner Program and fostering a well-developed relationship between F5/partner sales and technical teams.
• Excel at Conflict Management - Excellent conflict management skills, with ability to be fair and firm with F5 team and partners. Examples are: Deal registration, support contracts, and partner tier requirements.
• Marketing & Demand Generation – Leverage F5 marketing funds to drive demand generation activities that generate the highest possible ROI. Manage channel marketing funds to ensure event and partner success.
• Account Mapping – Drive regular cadence of account mapping sessions with partners and the F5 sales team focused on driving net-new accounts and new opportunities in existing accounts.
• Business Planning – Work with partners to develop and execute a strategic business plan focused on driving new accounts, new opportunities, sales and technical competency and incremental bookings growth. Collaborate with Strategic Partner Managers to develop and execute business plans for our national strategic partners in territory where appropriate. The partner business plans are the basis for QBRs and need to be updated quarterly.
• Special Projects & Reporting - Work on strategic initiatives as established by channel management and reporting business issues/opportunities as requested by channel and/or executive management.

What you will bring:

• BA or Master's degree, or equivalent combination of training and experience
• 3+ years of channel / channel marketing related experience in vendor environment with In-depth knowledge of partner organizations, processes, business drivers and internal operations
• Background in software/hardware sales and distribution – with large Software, Hardware, Security and/or Networking Companies
• Knowledge of enterprise networks, security and applications

What you will get: 

• Career growth and development opportunities
• Recognitions and Rewards 
• Employee Assistance Program
• Competitive pay, c comprehensive benefits,, and cool perks 
• Culture of Giving Back 
• Dynamic Diversity & Inclusion

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting [email protected].