Senior Channel Account Manager Sales

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Overview:

The Channel Account Manager (CAM) is a mission-critical role responsible for driving Mitel’s market share and revenue growth across India. You will act as the primary strategic consultant to our partners (Value-Added Resellers, System Integrators, and Distributors), empowering them to sell Mitel’s full portfolio of Unified Communications (UC), Contact Center (CC), and AI-driven customer experience solutions.

You will be responsible for "hunting" new partners and "farming" existing high-potential accounts, ensuring they are enabled, motivated, and aligned with Mitel’s go-to-market strategy.

Responsibilities:

1. Channel Partner Management

• Manage a defined set of existing channel partners and own their overall business performance.

• Develop strong relationships with partner owners, sales leaders, presales and account teams.

• Create and execute Partner Business Plans with clear revenue, pipeline and growth objectives.

• Identify gaps in partner performance and develop corrective action plans.

• Increase partner engagement, competency, certifications and solution-selling capabilities.

2. Revenue Growth & Business Development

• Own the revenue target for assigned partners and deliver quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year growth.

• Identify new revenue opportunities within existing partners and their customer base.

• Drive cross-sell and upsell across Mitel's portfolio.

• Build joint GTM initiatives, campaigns and customer acquisition programs with partners.

• Develop strategies to increase the number and value of partner-led opportunities.

3. End-Customer Engagement

• Work directly with end customers alongside channel partners to understand business requirements and influence opportunities.

• Participate in customer meetings, presentations, solution discussions, negotiations and executive engagements.

• Build relationships with key decision-makers and influencers within strategic accounts.

• Ensure partners are effectively positioned as the preferred route to market.

4. Pipeline & Forecast Management

• Maintain a healthy and accurate sales pipeline across assigned partners.

• Provide weekly/monthly/quarterly forecasts with high accuracy.

• Track pipeline coverage, opportunity ageing, conversion rates and sales velocity.

• Clearly distinguish Commit, Best Case and Pipeline opportunities.

• Identify forecast risks early and develop mitigation plans.

• Ensure CRM hygiene and accurate opportunity stages, close dates, values and probability.

Requirements:

• Any Graduate or Post Graduate

• 8–15 years of experience in Channel Sales / Partner Management / Enterprise Sales.

• Proven experience managing existing channel partners rather than only partner recruitment.

• Experience in Voice, UC, UCaaS, CCaaS, Networking, Cloud or related technology solutions preferred.

• Demonstrated track record of achieving revenue targets through partners.

• Experience managing enterprise customers jointly with channel partners.

Must-Have Skills

• Channel Account Management

• Enterprise Account Management

• Revenue & Business Planning

• Pipeline Management

• Forecasting

• CRM discipline

• Partner GTM

• Negotiation

• Solution selling

• Executive relationship management

• Business analytics

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