Channel Sales Director Emea

At OneSpan, we're reimagining trust to help businesses to thrive by enabling secure, compliant, and frictionless digital agreements and transactions. Across the globe, we are trusted by global enterprises, including more than 60% of the world's largest 100 banks, to enrich their customer experience and mitigate threats today, while preparing to take full advantage of what's coming tomorrow. With a bold vision and an ambitious opportunity ahead of us, we are looking for creative thinkers and fearless ideas that will disrupt our industry.You will be instrumental in recruiting, developing and managing our channel partners network to serve EMEA. You will leverage proven business and market development experience based on in-depth understanding of the channel including:
Reseller Channels
System Integrators
Referral partners
Global alliances (Consulting firms ; Global services providers ; Audit advisors)

You will be responsible for collaboratively managing and executing the partner program in EMEA. The Channel Sales Director must be able to set objectives, determine sale strategies for our security product line, and implement methods for successful channel sales results with the support of the field sales organization. This individual's success will be measured by sales through the channel. Based on the channel contribution and growth, he/she will grow a team of dedicated channel representatives to enable and support channel business in each region.

**Job Duties and Responsibilities**
- Define and deploy business plans to strengthen our relationship with existing channel partners, reviewing and re-assessing regularly
- Develop and execute strategy for recruiting new channel partners as needed to support growth
- Responsible for creating and executing a pipeline generation plan that leads to partners exceeding their annual incremental and net new business needs
- Properly articulate the Onespan strategy, value proposition, and solution offerings to partners
- Develop and execute regional partner go to market business plans that align with field sales market plans
- Responsible for aligning and engaging partners with multiple resources such as field sales, solutions engineers, support team, professional services, product management
- Lead partner enablement to support the development of active channel partners in the region and grow strategic partners with recurrent business
- Work with Sales reps and Marketing team to drive marketing programs to ensure that all activities tie back to OneSpan's performance objectives
- Negotiate business terms and conditions that are within OneSpan guidelines and are fair to both OneSpan and resellers
- Provide accurately sales reports and activity, including pipeline and current sales opportunities within Salesforce

**Requirements**:

- Five to seven years of proven experience of managing a tea, which build and manage resellers
- Manage business relationships with Global System integrators and/or Core Banking providers in EMEA (Accenture ; Deloitte; Cognizant ; Finastra ; Fiserv ; FIS ; Technisys, Mambu, Globant, )
- Must be proactive, analytical, results oriented
- Strong consultative and presentation skills
- Work experience in tech companies with a direct and indirect sale model
- Understanding of the security marketplace and competitive landscape
- Have excellent time operational and project management and organizational skills
- Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills
- Negotiation and reseller management experience
- Ability to travel up to a minimum of 30% of the time
- Bachelor's degree
- Fluent in English

At OneSpan, we challenge the now by thinking ahead, speaking up, and working together to constantly improve. Everyone is an integral part of our mission, with an equal opportunity to participate and make a global impact. Because we know that real connections are built on autonomy and trust, we always engage with open minds and promote diversity in our thinking and in our culture. The more voices we have represented and amplified, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and drive our industry forward. That's why we encourage everyone to bring their whole self to work and be open to different ideas, new challenges, and new possibilities.