Posted almost 5 years ago

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

The Red Hat Sales team is looking for a Partner Sales Account Manager to join us in Tokyo, Japan. In this front-line sales role, you will build good relationships and develop new business with major business partners. You’ll work closely with both existing and potential division and affiliate independent software vendor (ISV) and system integrator (SI) companies to develop account plans to grow the adoption of Red Hat’s solutions. As a Partner Sales Account Manager, you’ll need to have a solid major business partner network, as well as great communication and presentation skills.

• Work closely with existing and potential division and affiliate ISV and SI companies to develop strategic account plans to grow the adoption of Red Hat’s solutions through these companies
• Manage and lead internal Red Hat’s associates, primarily solutions architects, consultants, and inside sales representatives, to support sales and account expansion efforts with key partners in the field
• Create contracts with key stakeholders to promote new solutions with partners
• Provide sales support to partner sales teams through training, customer visits, technical, and administrative information, demonstrations, and customer price quotes on our offerings
• Create strategic and tactical plans for new business development while leading the extended Sales team in using these plans to maximize revenue and growth
• Develop sustainable revenue across technology lines
• Understand partner business and technology needs and communicate them to executives

• Sales experience with a demonstrated record of success, preferably in the software or information technology (IT) industry
• Business experience with large IT solution vendors
• Experience selling Red Hat Middleware, IBM WebSphere, and Oracle Weblogic is a plus
• Good English language skills are a plus

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