Channel Account Manager - Video Security & Access Control (Massachusetts/Rhode Island)

Company Overview

​At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) is a global leader in mission-critical communications and analytics.

At Motorola Solutions, we create technologies our customers refer to as their lifeline. Our technology platforms in communications, software, video and services help our customers work safely and more efficiently. Our technology platforms in mission-critical communications, command center software and video security & analytics, bolstered by managed & support services, make cities safer and help communities and businesses thrive. At Motorola Solutions, we are ushering in a new era in public safety and security.

Avigilon, a Motorola Solutions company, designs, develops, and manufactures video analytics, network video management software and hardware, surveillance cameras, and access control solutions. Avigilon's solutions have been installed at thousands of customer sites, including school campuses, transportation systems, healthcare centers, public venues, critical infrastructure, prisons, factories, casinos, airports, financial institutions, government facilities, and retailers.

Job Description

Reporting to Avigilon’s Regional Sales Director, the Channel Account Manager, Video acts as a primary contact for all video solutions selling initiatives with Avigilon Channel Partners in the assigned territory, proactively manages their relationships and deploys sales actions and strategies in order to grow business and meet territory revenue goals.

Responsibilities:

• Develop relationships with Avigilon Partners, educate the Partners on Avigilon solutions, understand and articulate how Avigilon solutions help them sell more and provide more value to their customers, track and report on account activity

• Assist Avigilon Channel Partners process orders and returns

• Work with Avigilon Channel Partners to ensure that their staff have taken the appropriate training to deploy Avigilon’s solutions successfully

• Support Motorola’s video sales activities in the assigned territory by creating, nurturing, and responding to sales opportunities for products and services

• Finding and developing new markets and determining the net need with end-users through channel partners and engage the Commercial Sales Executives to close the opportunities

• Support the territory leaders in establishing quarterly and annual sales objectives for the assigned Avigilon Channel Partners in the territory

• Track sales activities using lead and project tracking software databases

• Collaborate with colleagues including Commercial Sales Executives, Business Development Managers, Inside Sales, and Sales Engineering

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of video security solutions sales experience

• 3+ years of customer-interfacing experience

• Physical security solutions experience

• Strong technical acumen and ability to speak towards our products and solutions

• Ability to accurately forecast revenue on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis

• Proven record of achievement in delivering sales results and developing collaborative relationships

• Strong understanding of our go-to-market strategy and sales philosophy is required

• Excellent analytical, verbal and written communication skills

• Time management skills are required, and candidates must have the ability to manage multiple priorities in a complex, fast-paced environment

• Functional understanding of Microsoft and Google Apps, especially Excel/Sheets

• Exceptional presentation skills required

• Strong computer skills with the ability to learn and demonstrate new software at a high level

• Ability to travel weekly to territory (~50% of territory travel)

• Having an established client base in the assigned territory is a plus

• Physi