Territory Sales Executive (m/f/d)

The Red Hat Commercial Sales team is looking for a Territory Sales Executive to join us in Switzerland. In this role, you'll promote sales, ensure customer satisfaction, and manage partner engagement within your assigned territory to close deals. You will develop and maintain relationships with our partners, mainly Solution providers and CCSP . As a Territory Sales Executive, you will serve as a Red Hat ambassador and a subject matter expert for business-related challenges of our commercial customer base and articulate the value of Red Hat solutions to your partner sales counterparts and customers.. What you will do: - Drive Red Hat’s revenue and customer value by connecting aligned partners with the right capabilities to solve customers' needs to sales opportunities, through joint account planning, lead sharing, and marketing/demand-generation activities - Attain territory  quota by driving partner deal progression for account expansion (upsell/cross-sell). - Develop joint account plans with Partner Account Managers and partners to drive customer demand and consumption; identify whitespace/acquisition targets and expanding existing accounts to new use cases and workloads - Deliver and integrate partner expertise into sales cycle activities to facilitate solution selling; identify and integrate partners into account/territory plans - Interlock with the Red Hat Ecosystem team to identify partner capability / capacity gaps in account base  - Work with Partner Account Managers to identify key sales counterparts at partners - Collaborate with Red Hat and partner marketing for demand-gen within territory. - Work with Customer Success, renewals, and partners to ensure customer “time to value” and renewal - Advocate within Red Hat organization to include partners in opportunities and drive client value - Liaise with Partner Account Managers to drive pipeline velocity and alleviate friction points, highlighting needs to connect partners to Red Hat resources or programs What you will bring: - Excellent leadership & communication skills, with ability to engage a diverse set of stakeholders in a matrix organization - Strong understanding of customers within assigned territory, including customers' business, industry trends, competitive landscape, and Red Hat differentiators/ value proposition - Strong understanding of partner ecosystem and how to sell together with channel partners - Software-savvy professional with a high-level understanding of technology and a passion for staying ahead of industry trends. - Ability to articulate the value of Red Hat solutions, Red Hat’s differentiation, and the Red Hat opportunity to partner sales counterparts - Ability to cultivate long-term relationships and develop advocates across client and partner organizations - Strategic orientation and value engineering skills to position and sell solutions to client needs with and through partners - Excellent English and German language skills About Red Hat Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40 countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact. Inclusion at Red Hat Red Hat’s culture is built on the open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. When this is realized, it empowers people from different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences to come together to share ideas, challenge the status qu ... (truncated, view full listing at source)