Description:

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Director of Partnerships, we are searching for an Associate Channel Sales Manager to help accelerate SPS Revenue Recovery Partnerships Program. The Associate Channel Sales Manager (CPM) is a strategic role within SPS Commerce's high-growth indirect sales division. Tasked with cultivating long-term partnerships with leading agencies, the CPM drives revenue through a lead-generation framework. This position requires an entrepreneurial mindset and a consultative approach to manage complex sales cycles and deliver prescriptive solutions in a fast-paced market.

If you're passionate about building relationships, driving results, and thriving in a fast-paced environment, we'd love to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

Partner Development: Develop and execute go-to-market strategies to maximize revenue potential.

Provide exceptional deal support and negotiation expertise for new partners.

Foster cross-functional collaboration to deliver value and exceed partners' expectations.

Identify and prospect potential partners, evaluating their suitability for strategic collaboration.

Continuously assess market trends and industry landscapes to uncover new partner opportunities.

Performance Tracking: Monitor and analyse key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the effectiveness of partner campaigns and identify areas for improvement. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams such as Sales, Marketing, Product Marketing, and Finance, and ensure synergy across teams.

Act as a bridge between departments, fostering communication and understanding of shared goals.

Implement strategies that enhance collaboration and drive collective success.

Create a thorough annual business plan that details the specific markets, activities, and milestones required to meet sales revenue and lead generation objectives
Carry forward detailed business plans to senior management and business executives, based on collective value propositions for both companies
Develop and maintain financial and non-financial metrics to measure the effectiveness of our channel partner relationships, both for SPS Commerce and for our partners.
Leverage your business plan to educate the other departments at SPS Commerce on the goals of your business such that they can participate in and understand their role in assisting you to fully execute on your objectives
Articulate SPS value proposition for the entire product suite
Work closely with other SPS sales organizations when independent VARs and or System Integrators are involved, winning the support of these third-party companies to increase our win rates, and ultimately bringing these partners formally into the SPS Ecosystem

Required Qualifications:

Proven Experience: You have 2+ years of experience in acquiring, and managing partnerships that drove revenue growth, ideally in the B2B SaaS industry, and in a fast-paced scale-up environment.

Bachelor's degree OR some post-secondary education AND 3 years of experience in channel sales

Stakeholder Management: You excel at building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders at all levels, ensuring everyone is kept informed and engaged.

You can work with anyone, and you can quickly and effectively assess what is important to any given stakeholder, and how to influence across reporting lines to ensure everyone is working in parallel to achieve the outcomes needed for the business.

Adaptability: You thrive in unstructured environments and can quickly adapt to changes.

You're comfortable introducing structure where needed and can navigate the complexity of a start-up with ease.

You don't cling to process for the sake of process - you understand that process is a tool to be used alongside many others to be maximally effective.

Strategic Thinker: You have a knack for seeing the bigger picture and understand how individual components interact to form a whole.

At the same time, you can also foresee the downstream impacts of decisions made today and you use these to inform your approach on partnership opportunities.

You understand when it's the right time to build fast and scrappy, or slow to scale, and how to balance these things to meet both short- and long-term objectives.

Communication: You possess exemplary communication skills, with the ability to articulate partnership objectives, goals and expectations.

You are equally eloquent and comfortable communicating in writing, in person, and when speaking to large groups.

You can always lead a discussion to an outcome, no matter how many people and different opinions are in the room.

Location:

This role is hybrid 2-3 day per week from the office in Toronto, ON, or Remote Canada or US.

At SPS Commerce, we are committed to ensuring that each employee's compensation reflects their unique experiences, performance, and skills in their role. SPS provides the annualized compensation target inclusive of base salary and annualized commission target for this role. The total annualized on-target compensation for this role is $110,000 CAD in Canada or $70,000 USD in the US.

SPS Commerce offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support employees' health, well-being, and financial security. Benefits are country-specific and aligned with local laws and market practices.