Job description
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Kyriba is looking to hire a proactive, experienced, and results-driven candidate to join our Northern organization based in London. The Kyriba Partnership & Alliances Sales Manager is responsible for the entire sales process from prospecting to closing business. The Partnership & Alliances Sales Manager
About The Role – Your Key Responsibilities
You will:
- Prospect new partners according to the strategy defined with the VP Sales Northern Region
- Negotiate the agreement with Alliances & Partners
- Agree with the alliances and partners on the business plan (number of deals and ARR generated by the alliance & partner)
- Support the alliance& partner in reaching this objective (coordinate Kyriba teams involved in the enablement of the alliance& partner)
- Build, nurture and execute pipeline in collaboration with the alliance& partner and the Kyriba Marketing, Sales and Business Development Representatives (BDR’s) to drive bookings within your territory.
- Coordinate with the alliance& partner and the Kyriba sales & presales teams the entire sales process from prospecting to closing business with corporates prospects
- Coordinate and lead responses to RFIs/RFPs and pricing requests
- Drives sales through distribution alliance& partner channels
- Identifies and approaches key or strategic partners and sets short- and long-term channel strategies
- Present Kyriba’s proposals in a professional manner to prospects.
- Provide feedback to management and Marketing team on prospects reactions and questions about Kyriba’s solutions.
- Collaborate with other Kyriba teams including presales, product, operations, and legal.
- Travel extensively throughout sales territory.
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Systematically document and record required and relevant information in Salesforce.comin a timely manner.
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Ensure opportunities are accurately reflected and updated in Salesforce.com.
- Attend conferences and industry related events within assigned territory and as requested.
- Prepare for meetings and tailor communications to address business needs of potential clients as part of the pre-sales process.
Strong background in Software Solutions (experience selling to the CFO buying center is a MUST)- Minimum of 10 years closing deals in the enterprise software segment
- Extensive Alliances & Channel sales experience in a business-to-business sales environment
- Understand the buying process in large corporations and how to navigate the decision maker network to close business.
- Experience in selling SaaS solutions is strongly preferred.
- Must possess strong interpersonal skills and be able to communicate technical information professionally in written responses to emails, RFPs, and verbally when presenting to prospects or internally.
- Is knowledgeable about the financial industry
- Ability to identify client’s Treasury related problems and to how the Kyriba solution can address them.
- Strength in strategic, conceptual, and consultative selling.
- Ability to understand financial data relationships and how that data can be used to solve business problems.
- Excellent negotiating skills.
- Excellent professional networking skills within and outside the organization to drive business.
- Good understanding on how to leverage social networks to grow your business.
- Great pipeline and data management skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, IT, or related field preferred
- Excellent communications and presentations skills in English