Lenovo

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for driving Datacenter Infrastructure (ISG) solutions revenue and profits in assigned territory in the commercial space through Business Partners.
• Hold relationships/engagements with key ISG pre-sales and sales staff in our Business Partners and build the One Lenovo Datacentre Brand value proposition in the market.
• Cultivate large ISG deals with business partners and drive them to closure with support from cross functional teams along with country channel managers.
• Maintain strong relationships with executives and influencers in all assigned partners.
• Establish trust and confidence with channel partners and customers with a consultative selling approach to address customer pain points.
• End to End ownership of channel ISG opportunities - opportunity identification, creation, progression and closure.  Maintenance of opportunities in CRM.
• Plan and execute partner marketing activities relevant to ISG including promotions and incentives. Partner enablement and certification – drive with your assigned partners.
• Ensure Business Partners' compliance to Lenovo standards of business conduct and integrity Business Partner compliance .
• Able to work with cross function teams (often across geographies) on technology and process engagements
• Develop a sales and technical community amongst the top tier partners and materially improve Lenovo solutions knowledge amongst key contacts.
• Understand and document each partners solution capability and identify opportunities for product fit. Work with partner product managers to understand the partner solution development roadmap and align 'sell to' opportunities.
• Support the identification and acquisition of new / strategic Managed Service Provider partners.

Key Performance Indicators:

·       Overall Business growth in ISG  channel through Server , Storage and Solutions & Service portfolio.

·       Market share gain by building & winning Funnel for ISG . 

·       Build Capacity of channel to drive leadership in ISG.

Requirement:

• Minimum 10 years of successful track record of channel sales / direct sales experience in the IT market (preferably in a people management role). 
• Good communication skills and conversant with current data center technology trends.
• Should be aware of the partner eco-system in the country
• Should be dealing in Backup solutions , End point Security, Enterprise Datacentre products ,HCI , ARS ,HPC, Cloud (public & hybrid) for major part of his career
• Job will require to continue to build the partner network and then continue to manage and expand the business
• Will need to meet the Company objectives of revenue, p-con and drive team KPIs
• Build a strong partner network that not only provide Indirect Business but also can be leveraged for sale to MM accounts Strong Program development and execution skills
• Ability to multi-task, research and analyze different situations
• Strong presentation, sales, negotiation and influencing skills
• High level of customer focus