Senior Manager Channel Sales and Programs

Are you interested in engaging with customers?

Are you passionate about building relationships and ensuring customer success?

Join Our Channel Sales Team
Our team works with world leading companies in every major industry to make the internet fast and secure. As a partner to the Global 500, we collaborate with customers and prospects to align Akamai solutions to business needs. We build relationships and insights to maximize product value through the full scope of our global platform.

What You'll Do

Continuously refine the channel strategy align with Akamai and market dynamics.

Lead a team to uphold current partner ecosystem, including Distributors, VARS, DVARs, MSPs, CSPs, Alliances partners, etc. to ensure organic growth.

Identify potential partners to recruit and develop to capture new revenue stream.

Own senior stakeholder engagement both internally and externally, to ensure commitment and recourses for partner business growth.

Lead and ensure the team execute cadence partner plannings and reviews.

Bring market insights back to Akamai to foster more effective partner programs.

Together with channel marketing and channel enablement team, own channel marketing and enablement plan and execution.

Deliver new customer and new product sales targets.

Manage channel conflict according to rules of engagement. Create a fair and transparent experience for partners.

Assist partners with service delivery, customer satisfaction and billing experience.

Do What You Love
To be successful in this role, you will

Have 8+ years in channel sales, partner management in the IT/tech industry in India. Proven track record of managing a full spectrum of partner ecosystems and delivery business growth.

Have experience with cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, or networking solutions — ideally in a multi-product portfolio context.

Have executive presence with the ability to influence partner leadership and internal stakeholders and commercial acumen.

Be an effective communicator and team worker, able to manage conflict and lead with clarity along with situational adaptiveness.

Be based in India; willing to travel domestically and occasionally regionally (APJ).

Benefits at Akamai
We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. (https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benefits)

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We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Equal Employment Opportunity Rights
Akamai Technologies is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

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