Regional Manager - Channel Sales
Description
Regional Business Leadership:
- Develop and execute the regional business plan.
- Deliver regional revenue, profitability and market-expansion objectives.
- Identify priority markets, customer segments and growth opportunities.
- Create territory-wise, partner-wise and team-wise execution plans.
- Review business performance and implement timely corrective actions.
Channel Strategy and Partner Development:
- Build and strengthen the distributor, dealer and channel-partner network.
- Identify, evaluate, appoint and activate new channel partners.
- Expand the network across existing and underpenetrated markets.
- Improve the productivity and contribution of existing partners.
- Conduct structured partner-performance and business reviews.
- Support partners in opportunity identification, customer engagement and deal closure.
- Manage channel conflicts, territory overlaps and pricing concerns.
- Maintain an effective partner network without excessive market saturation.
Market and Business Development:
- Develop new territories and customer segments.
- Drive business across banking, institutional, commercial and industrial customers.
- Build relationships with customers, consultants, architects, contractors and market influencers.
- Generate business for physical security products and solutions.
- Support strategic, high-value and technically complex opportunities.
- Monitor competitor activity, pricing trends and changing customer requirements.
- Convert market intelligence into actionable business plans.
Revenue and Commercial Management:
- Deliver regional revenue, margin and collection targets.
- Maintain pricing and discount discipline.
- Evaluate the commercial viability of significant opportunities.
- Lead commercial negotiations for strategic deals.
- Monitor partner credit exposure and outstanding payments.
- Drive timely collections with partners and internal stakeholders.
- Balance revenue growth with margins, credit quality and long-term business potential.
Pipeline and Forecast Management:
- Build and maintain a healthy regional opportunity pipeline.
- Conduct partner-wise and team-wise pipeline reviews.
- Assess the value, stage, probability and next steps for each opportunity.
- Improve sales-forecast accuracy and business predictability.
- Track key opportunities, closure risks and required actions.
- Ensure that forecasts are supported by realistic customer timelines and commitments.
Team Leadership:
- Lead, coach and develop the regional sales team.
- Set clear performance expectations and accountability.
- Review individual and territory-level business performance.
- Support the team during important customer and partner engagements.
- Identify and address capability gaps.
- Build a performance-driven culture focused on ownership and execution.
Cross-functional Collaboration:
- Collaborate with product, marketing, service, projects, supply chain, finance and commercial teams.
- Ensure timely quotations, product availability, order processing and execution.
- Coordinate appropriate after-sales support for customers and partners.
- Represent regional requirements during internal business discussions.
- Escalate and resolve issues affecting business delivery or customer experience.
Education:
- Graduate degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Commerce or a related discipline.
- MBA or postgraduate qualification in Sales and Marketing preferred.