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This strategic channel role will develop the full 360 degree Cloud Service Provider partner led growth from leveraging Cloud Service Provider (CSP) partner teams, CSP partner reach and marketplaces. Reporting to the ANZ Cloud Service Provider Manager you will center your role on developing and growing channel led opportunities with partners who actively drive revenue for their business via cloud providers and marketplaces.. You will be responsible for educating and engaging the sales account teams within partners and at Palo Alto Networks on the benefits of tri party collaboration. We win by deliberate joint account engagement to solve our joint customers biggest challenges of securing their digital future. Success in the role will also require developing a strong internal network across Palo Alto Networks teams, including marketing, inside sales and Sales Engineers and most importantly our speedboat solutions specialists.

Your Impact

• Grow partner led marketplace transactions and New Customer Acquisitions
• Grow service creation for partners from customer cloud migrations and operations
• Business development with partners involvement to help activate them on Palo Alto Networks offerings
• Build a strong business network within the cloud service providers channels organizations - It is your responsibility to continue to nurture and grow your network
• Engaging with key stakeholders (Channel leadership, Channel Business Managers, Cloud Service Provider Partner Managers) build and execute on a your CSP channel plan
• As part of the overall plan, activate current marketplace partners, identify and recruit new partners who have viewed marketplaces as a relevant pathway in their go-to-market strategy
• Develop and execute business plans driving all aspects of the partner relationship to maximize growth opportunities and ensuring partner is well-positioned to deliver successful customer implementations and recommendations
• Work well in a team environment to ensure partner and customer satisfaction
• Design compelling value proposition that inspire partners to promote our solutions 
• Work with select partners and help them build a services catalog around our cloud security offerings
• Provide clear and consistent communication across the region with your dedicated partners to build strong partnerships throughout your assignment
• Lead regular business performance and relationship reviews with senior management and various stakeholders 
• Build and maintain activity of performance reports and activity dashboards

This opportunity sits within the Digital Audio pillar of Nine, where the focus is driving advertising effectiveness for brands across the suite of Nine audio streaming and podcasting assets. As this is a new role within the digital Campaign Operations Team, you will work closely with the Audio Team Lead to ensure delivery of all digital audio bookings, in addition to contributing to revenue growth for the business.

At the core, you will manage end-to-end digital audio ad campaigns, handling tasks like booking approvals, performance monitoring, budget delivery optimization, and troubleshooting. Your success will hinge on fostering strong relationships with sales teams and ensuring the highest level of client service.

Day to day you will:

• Collectively prioritise campaign launches across your list of dedicated sales teams, ensuring a smooth go live process that is in-line with our Service Level Agreements
• Implement optimisation tactics as required throughout the lifetime of the campaigns to maximise delivery and revenue
• Make calculated decisions in adjusting inventory and data mixology to achieve campaign objectives and maximise revenue
• Run ‘In Progress’ meetings with the Sales team, proactively guiding go-live schedules, campaign prioritisation, monitoring of campaign performance and assessment if they are pacing to hit their delivery goals
• Provide end of campaign reporting insights, data analysis and recommendations to promote revenue growth

We are looking for an experienced and strategic Enterprise Account Manager who has a knack in building deep customer relationships and driving incremental business in existing Freshworks customers by delivering value.  They should have a consultative sales approach, a successful track record growing and on-boarding clients with polished presentation skills. This person must demonstrate all the behaviors associated with a high performance sales culture, specifically managing a pipeline of business opportunities and delivering results against a quota. This individual will provide the best sales experience possible for our customers.

The candidate should be a self-starter with a “GROWTH MINDSET” who has a willingness  to learn and adapt in any situation. She / He should be prepared to develop and execute  against an account plan and consistently deliver on revenue targets and have a strong can-do  attitude in an agile environment. The ideal candidate will possess both sales and technical  expertise along with engagement skills from a CXO level to technical and operations staff.  The Account Manager will be an exceptionally strong analytical thinker who thrives in fast paced dynamic environments with good communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll become the resident expert on the Freshworks platform and will expand our cloud-based software usage in existing customers
• Drive expansion through upsell and cross-sell to meet or exceed revenue targets
• Demonstrating / selling value to key stakeholders within the accounts
• Build a plan to maximize revenue and customer satisfaction within your accounts
• Create & articulate compelling value conversations with C-Level stakeholders also work in  alignment with inside stakeholders namely AMs, Customer Success, Implementations,  Billing, Support, deals teams etc.
• Close large, complex deals involving multiple executive level stakeholders
• Collaborate with and lead a larger cross functional team to the closure of large complex deals
• Demonstrated experience managing complex sales cycles and negotiating win-win agreements based on value based selling
• Exceeding activity, pipeline and revenue goals on a quarterly basis
• Build strategies and execute on the plan in the assigned territory with the goal of generating and maintaining 4x pipeline
• Analyze sales/metrics data from your accounts to help evolve your strategy
• Assist customers in identifying industry relevant use cases and educate customers to make a  strong business impact
• Develop long-term strategic relationships with key accounts
• Ensuring satisfaction within your accounts