Senior Channel Director

An extraordinarily talented group of individuals work together every day to drive TNS' success, from both professional and personal perspectives. The Field Sales-Sales Account Management area is responsible for selling the firm's products and services to new and/or existing clients and developing or expanding accounts primarily through face-to-face sales. Transaction Network Services (TNS) is looking for an experienced, highly motivated Channel Sales Manager East Coast to expand our growing partner ecosystem and generate new enterprise revenue through strategic channel relationships. This is not a traditional partner-management role. We are looking for someone who knows how to build relationships, create demand, develop partner-generated pipeline and close business. The ideal candidate already understands the technology channel and has experience working with organizations such as Technology Services Distributors (TSDs), MSPs, VARs, telecom consultants, cloud communications providers, contact-center partners and other technology advisors. You will own the development of the TNS channel across the Eastern United States and help partners introduce TNS to enterprise customers. TNS helps enterprises protect and improve one of their most important customer communication channels: the telephone call. Our Enterprise Branded Communications portfolio helps organizations: Protect telephone numbers against spoofing and impersonation Display an organization’s trusted calling name and logo Monitor telephone-number reputation Identify telephone numbers experiencing spam-labeling or reputation issues You will help our partners take these capabilities to their enterprise customers across banking, financial services, healthcare, retail, utilities, travel, contact centers and other high-volume calling environments. Identify partners with the customer base, technical capabilities and sales organization to generate meaningful enterprise opportunities for TNS. Generate Partner-Sourced Pipeline You will work with partners to identify target accounts, develop joint account strategies, initiate customer conversations and create qualified enterprise opportunities. Build strong relationships with partner sales representatives, channel managers, engineers and leadership teams. Educate partners on where TNS fits within their customer conversations and give them simple, compelling reasons to bring TNS into opportunities. Develop creative partner-led prospecting campaigns, account-mapping strategies, customer workshops, executive introductions and educational programs that generate new conversations. You should be comfortable helping a partner move from: “What does TNS do?” to: “I have five customers that need to hear this.” Participate directly in enterprise customer meetings. Help partners uncover challenges related to spoofing, fraud, telephone-number reputation, branded calling, contact-center performance and consumer trust. Work closely with TNS enterprise sales resources to advance opportunities from initial conversation through close. Partner sales organizations Sales engineering Customer-success teams Enterprise account executives Regional sales leadership Attend partner events, regional conferences, customer meetings, sales kickoffs, technology events and industry gatherings. You will be expected to become a recognized resource for partners seeking guidance around enterprise voice trust, calling authentication, spoof protection and telephone-number reputation. We believe channel performance should be measured by outcomes not simply activity. Core performance metrics will include: Partner-sourced qualified pipeline Net-new enterprise opportunities Joint customer meetings Pipeline velocity and opportunity progression 5+ years of technology, SaaS, telecom, cloud, cybersecurity or communications sales experience

• 3+ years of channel, partner or indirect-sales experience
• Experience building executive and seller-level partner relationships
• Proven ability to develop pipeline rather than simply manage existing relationships
• Strong presentation and customer-facing communication skills
• Ability to independently manage a large geographic territory
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial sales environment
• Ability and willingness to travel throughout the Eastern United States

Contact-center technology partners Cloud communications providers Partners trust you because you help them solve problems and make money. You are comfortable opening doors, mapping accounts and developing new conversations. You don’t need 30 slides to explain why a customer should care. You understand that successful partnerships need to generate measurable revenue for both organizations. You don’t need someone telling you what to do every morning. Has a network. Voice remains one of the most important communication channels between enterprises and their customers — and one of the most exploited by fraudsters. Can customers trust the number calling them? Can consumers immediately recognize that a call is really from us? TNS is helping enterprises answer those questions by bringing together telephone-number intelligence, calling authentication, branded communications and spoof protection. For the right channel professional, this creates an opportunity to help build a significant new category within the technology-channel ecosystem. This is a remote position with regular partner and customer travel. We’re looking for someone who wants more than a portfolio of partners to manage. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. TNS offers a competitive benefit package including medical and dental coverage, life insurance, paid holidays and vacations, and a 401K plan with company match. If you are passionate about technology, love personal growth and opportunity, come see what TNS is all about! TNS evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.