2 Distribution jobs in Lagos
Distribution Business Manager - Africa
Lagos, Lagos
Palo Alto Networks
Posted 3 days ago
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**Our Mission**
At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we're looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.
**Who We Are**
We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.
As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!
**This role can be based remotely in Egypt, Kenya, South Africa or Nigeria**
**Your Career**
As a Distribution Business Manager (DBM) at Palo Alto Networks, you will drive our entire Sales & Channel engagement with distributors across the NextWave partner ecosystem across the Africa region. You will own the overall GTM relationship, defining the evolution of distributors' businesses, headcount, investments, and go-to-market strategies each year based on regional priorities. Your role includes overall business execution and performance management with the distributor, augmenting the Enterprise & Commercial Segment needs with your DBM peers and associated sales segment leads.
**Your Impact**
+ Provide necessary data and reports to distributors to set plan targets and KPIs.
+ Schedule, prepare, and lead recurring Business Review meetings (QBRs) at least three times per year with cross-functional audience
+ Meet with Distributors to update the annual business plan with previous quarter's results and set targets for the new quarter
+ Establish senior executive relationships and leverage rapport with distributors' executives to influence investments
+ Lead monthly updates with the distributor(s) to cover relevant new company information
+ Increase the distributor's quoting utilization and provide adequate training
+ Manage semi-annual NextWave Program Compliance efforts for Distribution Managed Partners
+ Work closely with the Renewals team and distributors to improve renewals process efficiency
+ Build and monitor plans with distributors to drive attendance to important events
+ Give face-to-face presentations to distributors at the start of each quarter
+ Facilitate cadence of 'Peering' between local management teams
+ Handle escalations related to day-to-day order processing and Distributor Credit situations
+ Be onsite at a local distributor at each end of month / EOQ
+ Manage the Distribution Rebates by setting targets and defining MBOs
+ Manage all processes and documentation related to Distribution Development Funds (DDF)
+ Lead weekly forecast call with each local distributor
**Your Experience**
+ 5 - 7 years of distribution or channel management experience
+ 2 - 3 years of channel sales management experience in vendor environments
+ Working knowledge and experience selling technology solutions
+ Proven experience influencing senior-level partner executives
+ Ability to develop complex partner and territory plans and strategies
+ Strong presentation skills and the ability to describe market transitions
+ Proven ability to communicate effectively and professionally
+ Strong leadership skills with the ability to develop and manage virtual sales teams
+ Strong time management, organizational, and negotiation skills
+ Professional IT Sales and business development experience
+ Strong public speaking skills
**The Team**
The channel organization at Palo Alto Networks is a strategic pillar for our continued growth within cybersecurity, and a critical component to accomplishing our mission. Channel development is an extension of the territory sales team, with the ultimate goal to train and enable our channel partners to become empowered in the use and sales of our products.
**Our Commitment**
We're problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at .
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we're looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.
**Who We Are**
We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.
As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!
**This role can be based remotely in Egypt, Kenya, South Africa or Nigeria**
**Your Career**
As a Distribution Business Manager (DBM) at Palo Alto Networks, you will drive our entire Sales & Channel engagement with distributors across the NextWave partner ecosystem across the Africa region. You will own the overall GTM relationship, defining the evolution of distributors' businesses, headcount, investments, and go-to-market strategies each year based on regional priorities. Your role includes overall business execution and performance management with the distributor, augmenting the Enterprise & Commercial Segment needs with your DBM peers and associated sales segment leads.
**Your Impact**
+ Provide necessary data and reports to distributors to set plan targets and KPIs.
+ Schedule, prepare, and lead recurring Business Review meetings (QBRs) at least three times per year with cross-functional audience
+ Meet with Distributors to update the annual business plan with previous quarter's results and set targets for the new quarter
+ Establish senior executive relationships and leverage rapport with distributors' executives to influence investments
+ Lead monthly updates with the distributor(s) to cover relevant new company information
+ Increase the distributor's quoting utilization and provide adequate training
+ Manage semi-annual NextWave Program Compliance efforts for Distribution Managed Partners
+ Work closely with the Renewals team and distributors to improve renewals process efficiency
+ Build and monitor plans with distributors to drive attendance to important events
+ Give face-to-face presentations to distributors at the start of each quarter
+ Facilitate cadence of 'Peering' between local management teams
+ Handle escalations related to day-to-day order processing and Distributor Credit situations
+ Be onsite at a local distributor at each end of month / EOQ
+ Manage the Distribution Rebates by setting targets and defining MBOs
+ Manage all processes and documentation related to Distribution Development Funds (DDF)
+ Lead weekly forecast call with each local distributor
**Your Experience**
+ 5 - 7 years of distribution or channel management experience
+ 2 - 3 years of channel sales management experience in vendor environments
+ Working knowledge and experience selling technology solutions
+ Proven experience influencing senior-level partner executives
+ Ability to develop complex partner and territory plans and strategies
+ Strong presentation skills and the ability to describe market transitions
+ Proven ability to communicate effectively and professionally
+ Strong leadership skills with the ability to develop and manage virtual sales teams
+ Strong time management, organizational, and negotiation skills
+ Professional IT Sales and business development experience
+ Strong public speaking skills
**The Team**
The channel organization at Palo Alto Networks is a strategic pillar for our continued growth within cybersecurity, and a critical component to accomplishing our mission. Channel development is an extension of the territory sales team, with the ultimate goal to train and enable our channel partners to become empowered in the use and sales of our products.
**Our Commitment**
We're problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at .
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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Solution Engineer - (AI Finance & Supply Chain)
Lagos, Lagos
Microsoft Corporation
Posted 15 days ago
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Job Description
The mission of Microsoft Business Applications is to help our customers digitally transform their businesses to drive new sources of revenue, create new and engaging ways to serve their customers, and to transform the way in which their business runs to drive new levels of profitability for their organization.
In this role you will be the Technology Specialist (pre-sales consultant) for your assigned workload and a member of the sales team that consists of Solution Specialist, Customer Success Unit, partners, and engineering. In this role you will advance pipeline by assisting the Solution Specialist in qualifying the deal, developing the strategy and inspiring the CxO/Business Decision Maker/Technical Decision Maker. You are responsible for designing the solution and delivering an industry-aligned demonstration to the customer. You will engage partners for co-sell and implementation considerations, engineering to assist with emerging technologies and Customer Success Unit for deal support. The demo will focus on solving the technical proof requirements while highlighting our business value and competitive differentiators and should result in securing the customer's solution design endorsement. Once the solution design is secured, you will support the Solution Specialist in finalizing the customer proposal and assisting with licensing.
You will develop relationships with the decision makers with our customers and position yourself as a trusted advisor in your domain. As a recognized product expert, you are responsible for sharing your technical, industry knowledge and best practices with your peers.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
**Responsibilities**
+ Advance qualified pipeline revenue by demonstrating solution capabilities, addressing technical proof requirements, and securing the customer's solution design endorsement.
+ Engage with the account team to land solution envisioning sessions and business value assessments.
+ Proactively deliver compelling customer centric solution demonstrations based on technical workload expertise while building Business Decision Maker/CxO/Technical Decision Maker connections.
+ Address solution architecture considerations and competitive objection handling.
+ Assist in formalizing the customer proposal.
+ Collaborate with Partners and Customer Success to align on agreed upon deployment plan and Key Performance Indicators.
+ Lead discovery sessions in each opportunity, yielding output of customer-agreed business challenges and win themes prioritized with business value.
**Qualifications**
**Required/minimum qualifications**
+ 6+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
+ OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
+ OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
+ OR equivalent experience.
**Additional or preferred qualifications**
+ 7+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
+ 4+ years' experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
+ 7+ years of related experience:
+ Solution pre-sales for business applications and/or SaaS-based company or similar technology.
+ Solution pre-sales of complex business application deals requiring orchestration of large, dispersed, virtual teams composed of industry and solution team members.
+ Solutions pre-sales best practices including but not limited to; discovery, building and crafting solution strategies that differentiate from the competition, value-based selling, identifying, and expanding product opportunities.
+ Successful track record of competitive displacement.
+ Ability to drive and influence stakeholders across organizational boundaries through organizational, presentation, envisioning, writing, and verbal communication skills.
+ Proven track record in prioritization and orchestration of resources for complex customer digital transformation engagements.
+ Deep understanding of: Business application solutions
+ Commercial cloud offerings, ideally Microsoft's cloud platform as well as competitive knowledge of other business applications and related ecosystems.
+ Customer facing business processes in one or more industries such as Financial Services, Manufacturing, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Retail & Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Public Sector and Media & Communications.
+ Business value selling methodologies and practices that successfully convey the value and business outcomes
+ How to uncover customer's stated and unstated needs and how technology can be leveraged to solve business problems.
+ Desired Skills:
+ High level of self-awareness, reflection, and empathy.
+ Ability to skillfully communicate, demonstrate, and prove the value of Dynamics 365 Business Applications.
+ Customer-centric mindset with demonstrated passion for delivering customer value.
+ Excel at coordinating team resources to build and deliver a compelling solution demonstration
+ Proven collaborator capable of influencing internal and external teams.
+ Excellent presentation and communications skills across various customer stakeholders, e.g., CIO, CFO, CMO, VP of Sales, etc.
+ Adept at challenging perspectives and differentiating from the competition by reframing value and exemplifying customer obsession.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .
In this role you will be the Technology Specialist (pre-sales consultant) for your assigned workload and a member of the sales team that consists of Solution Specialist, Customer Success Unit, partners, and engineering. In this role you will advance pipeline by assisting the Solution Specialist in qualifying the deal, developing the strategy and inspiring the CxO/Business Decision Maker/Technical Decision Maker. You are responsible for designing the solution and delivering an industry-aligned demonstration to the customer. You will engage partners for co-sell and implementation considerations, engineering to assist with emerging technologies and Customer Success Unit for deal support. The demo will focus on solving the technical proof requirements while highlighting our business value and competitive differentiators and should result in securing the customer's solution design endorsement. Once the solution design is secured, you will support the Solution Specialist in finalizing the customer proposal and assisting with licensing.
You will develop relationships with the decision makers with our customers and position yourself as a trusted advisor in your domain. As a recognized product expert, you are responsible for sharing your technical, industry knowledge and best practices with your peers.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
**Responsibilities**
+ Advance qualified pipeline revenue by demonstrating solution capabilities, addressing technical proof requirements, and securing the customer's solution design endorsement.
+ Engage with the account team to land solution envisioning sessions and business value assessments.
+ Proactively deliver compelling customer centric solution demonstrations based on technical workload expertise while building Business Decision Maker/CxO/Technical Decision Maker connections.
+ Address solution architecture considerations and competitive objection handling.
+ Assist in formalizing the customer proposal.
+ Collaborate with Partners and Customer Success to align on agreed upon deployment plan and Key Performance Indicators.
+ Lead discovery sessions in each opportunity, yielding output of customer-agreed business challenges and win themes prioritized with business value.
**Qualifications**
**Required/minimum qualifications**
+ 6+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
+ OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
+ OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
+ OR equivalent experience.
**Additional or preferred qualifications**
+ 7+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
+ 4+ years' experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
+ 7+ years of related experience:
+ Solution pre-sales for business applications and/or SaaS-based company or similar technology.
+ Solution pre-sales of complex business application deals requiring orchestration of large, dispersed, virtual teams composed of industry and solution team members.
+ Solutions pre-sales best practices including but not limited to; discovery, building and crafting solution strategies that differentiate from the competition, value-based selling, identifying, and expanding product opportunities.
+ Successful track record of competitive displacement.
+ Ability to drive and influence stakeholders across organizational boundaries through organizational, presentation, envisioning, writing, and verbal communication skills.
+ Proven track record in prioritization and orchestration of resources for complex customer digital transformation engagements.
+ Deep understanding of: Business application solutions
+ Commercial cloud offerings, ideally Microsoft's cloud platform as well as competitive knowledge of other business applications and related ecosystems.
+ Customer facing business processes in one or more industries such as Financial Services, Manufacturing, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Retail & Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Public Sector and Media & Communications.
+ Business value selling methodologies and practices that successfully convey the value and business outcomes
+ How to uncover customer's stated and unstated needs and how technology can be leveraged to solve business problems.
+ Desired Skills:
+ High level of self-awareness, reflection, and empathy.
+ Ability to skillfully communicate, demonstrate, and prove the value of Dynamics 365 Business Applications.
+ Customer-centric mindset with demonstrated passion for delivering customer value.
+ Excel at coordinating team resources to build and deliver a compelling solution demonstration
+ Proven collaborator capable of influencing internal and external teams.
+ Excellent presentation and communications skills across various customer stakeholders, e.g., CIO, CFO, CMO, VP of Sales, etc.
+ Adept at challenging perspectives and differentiating from the competition by reframing value and exemplifying customer obsession.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .
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