Senior Manager

About Kinaxis:
**About Kinaxis**

Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it’s really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we’re serious about your career growth and professional development, because _People matter _at Kinaxis.

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers based in Ottawa, Canada. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, and support 40,000+ users in over 100 countries. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries. We are expanding our team in APAC and around the world as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

As a global team of Sales, Professional Services, and Global Customer Care professionals, we have maintained our presence in APAC for more than a decade and we support customers in APAC and around the world, including Subaru, Nihon Kohden, Unilever, and more.

About the team:
**About the team**

**Location**

Australia or Singapore

About the role:
**Key Responsibilities-**
- APAC regional responsibility for value added revenue focusing on our Kinaxis partner programs
- Attain goals against mandate to move our VAR partners up in our segmentation.
- Onboard and maintain relationships with new VARs
- Pipeline generation and sales cycle orchestration
- Creating, executing and managing an ongoing VAR business plan
- Work with VAR Sales director on Lead generations and distribution
- Opportunity qualification and VAR recruitment for key future partners.
- Outline in region Total Addressable Market with prospective VARS and Kinaxis Sales leadership
- Coordinate with internal Sales and support team to ensure proper VAR Support
- Drive top/down certification adoption based on regional and global need
- Primary Kinaxis point of contact for VAR deployment projects
- Co-ordinate engagement of Kinaxis Expert Advisor support
- Work with Deployment QA to ensure deployments are following Kinaxis standards to be successful
- Escalate issues within Kinaxis as needed

**Primary Skills and Qualifications**
- Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in channel sales, partner management, or indirect sales roles, with a proven track record of success in building and managing channel partner programs in the SaaS or technology industry.
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing, or a related field. MBA or equivalent qualification preferred.
- Strong leadership skills, with experience leading and developing high-performing teams, setting strategic direction, and driving results.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships, influence stakeholders, and negotiate mutually beneficial agreements.
- Strategic thinker with a customer-centric mindset, capable of understanding partner needs, identifying opportunities, and developing innovative solutions.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to analyze data, track performance metrics, and make data-driven decisions to optimize channel sales effectiveness.
- Proficiency in channel management software/tools, CRM systems, and Microsoft Office suite.
- Fluency in English is required

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Why join Kinaxis?:
**Work With Impact**: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day—when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.

**Work with Fortune 500 Brands**: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Hitachi, Yamaha, P&G, and more.

**Social Responsibility at Kinaxis**: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to net-zero operations strategy for the long term. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.
- People matter_ at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:
- Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month)-
- Flexible work options-
- Physical and mental well-being programs-
- Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes-
- Mentorship programs and training and career development-
- Recognition programs and referral rewards-
- Hackathons