Senior Partner Sales Manager in London

ABOUT TEMENOS

Temenos powers a world of banking that creates opportunities for billions of people and businesses everywhere. We have been doing this for over 30 years through the pioneering spirit of our Temenosians who are passionate about making banking better, together.

We serve over 3000 clients from the largest to challengers and community banks in 150+ countries. We collaborate with clients to build new banking services and state-of-the-art customer experiences on our open banking platform, helping them operate more sustainably.

At Temenos, we have an open-minded and inclusive culture, where everyone has the power to create their own destiny and make a positive contribution to the world of banking and society.

VALUES

• Care about transforming the Banking landscape.
• Commit to being part of an exciting culture and product evolving within the financial industry.
• Collaborate effectively and proactively with teams within or outside Temenos.
• Challenge yourself to be ambitious and achieve your individual as well as the company targets.

THE ROLE

Reporting to the Head of Partner Sales - EUROPE, the role collaborates with Temenos sellers and Temenos partners to influence and speed up the sales cycle, work within esteemed Temenos ecosystem to build partner lead offerings for designated territories or client segments, finds and onboards new Sales Partners (Introducers, Resellers, Distributors) in UKI; with the objective to drive partner channel sales across Temenos multi product portfolio.

You will be responsible for managing the ongoing relationship with the existing sales partners, ensuring they remain engaged, empowered and educated to promote Temenos to their respected territories. You will also act as the liaison between the partner and the Temenos community.

OPPORTUNITIES

• You will build, lead and own partner sales strategy for your territory.
• You will have access to Temenos partner ecosystem to build go-to market strategies, joint offerings, partner lead sales initiatives to create sales pipeline and close deals timely.
• You will benefit from the partner ecosystem of Temenos to influence new logo sales cycles.
• You will prospect new partners to explore Sales Partnership (Introducers, Resellers, Distributors) opportunities, define and assign targeted accounts, markets, products, explore routes to market.
• You will engage with prospective partners, present them with the Temenos value proposition and evaluate the company based on defined KPIs and criteria and communicate with them throughout the discovery process.
• You will define mutual business cases/business plans with estimated ROI.
• You will define market-focused brand awareness strategies as well as go-to-market programs and execute those to generate pipeline.
• You will assume the ownership of opportunities and support the partners throughout the sales cycle until closure.
• You will define procedures to organize the partner’s team to manage/monitor the healthy growth of our mutual business.
• You will assist partners throughout forecasting, sales planning, and managing RFP and Pre-Sales processes.
• You will coordinate the involvement of various internal teams such as solution pricing, product teams, professional services, support and legal in relation to the sales opportunities brought by the partner.
• You will be responsible for the organization of sales enablement sessions for partners.
• You will act as the partner channel interface into Temenos with key focus on driving to sales execution and expanding Temenos’ reach into identified markets.
• You will perform such other duties, functions and services, consistent with status or vocational ability, as may from time to time be required.

KEY ACTIVITIES

• Identify potential new local Sales partners to on-board.
• Rollout local EUR partner strategy.
• Train & evangelize partners.
• Manage local Sales partners’ relationship and identify key sponsors.
• Integrate Partner Strategy dimension in day-to-day local activities.
• Act as a liaison with the Partner Director to support a two-way local partner strategy integration.
• Monitor local pipeline and drive partner sales across Temenos’ multi product portfolio.
• Deliver regular management reporting.
• Define local annual business plan.

SKILLS

Sales Skills

• You should have a deep knowledge of the financial services industry, the trends, challenges, and innovations.
• You should have a proven track record of success in selling complex technology solutions to the financial services sector.
• You should be culturally aware and have experience of working in a globally matrixed organization.
• You should be ambitious with an entrepreneurial spirit, energy, and a passion for continuous learning and improvement.
• You should have a passion for selling!
• You should have experience of successfully selling in SE, Nordics and DACH.
• You should have international experience and a global mindset.
• You should be able to travel extensively.

Channel Partner Management Skills

• You should be able to manage sales/distribution partner’s life cycle and related activities from its start to a sustainable and meaningful relationship position, producing measurable qualitative and quantitative results.
• You should be able to structure partner relationships within relevant go to market, integrating partner potential, market opportunities and dynamics under constraint.
• You should be able to think strategically and build long term relationship to reverse traditionally opportunistic sub-region strategic partner behaviors.

Technical Skills

• You should have a strong knowledge of banking applications and operations, including business processes (retail banking, corporate banking, payment solutions, etc.) as well as core banking and related solutions.

EXPERIENCE

• You should have experience with sales in the specific sub-regions in question and proven track record of relations with established market partners and alliances, such as HCL, Deloitte, EY, CapGemini, Accenture, IBM, Cognizant, TechMahindra etc.

SOME OF OUR BENEFITS include:

• Maternity leave: Transition back with 3 days per week in the first month and 4 days per week in the second month.
• Civil Partnership: 1 week of paid leave if you're getting married. This covers marriages and civil partnerships, including same sex/civil partnership.
• Family care: 4 weeks of paid family care leave.
• Recharge days: 4 days per year to use when you need to physically or mentally recharge.
• Study leaves: 2 weeks of paid leave each year for study or personal development.