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Manager Channel Sales (m/f/d) - with leadership responsibility

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Manager Channel Sales (m/f/d) - with leadership responsibility

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Hiring Remotely in Germany

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Senior level

Security • Software

The Role

Lead and develop a regional CAE channel team across Austria, Switzerland and Eastern Europe to drive partner growth, execute channel strategies, meet bookings quota, forecast accurately, and promote next-gen cybersecurity solutions. Responsibilities include hiring, mentoring, partner program management, training, driving MSP/cloud routes, cross-team collaboration, and ensuring partner adherence to program requirements.

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About Us

Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.

Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.

Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Role Summary

The Manager Channel Sales will manage and develop the Austrian, Switzerland and Eastern Europe CAE-Team.
His/Her main duty is to build and grow the Sophos Business with Keypartners in the allocated region. This includes implementing the sales/channel strategy and priorities with his CAE team as well as representing Sophos on key industry events.

Success will be measured by the overall performance and quota achievement of the CAE team as well as team member performance and satisfaction.

What You Will Do:

Lead the team through necessary and contemporary changes related to the company’s strategic goal to be a next-generation cybersecurity leader
Recruit, mentor, and manage a team CAEs in the allocated region
Execute channel-sales and go to market strategies
Identify requirements for Sophos in this part of the market
Achieve bookings quota to achieve company goals
Provide accurate forecasting
Develop the key-partners handled by the CAEs to the next level and assure proper growth as well as selling of next-gen solutions, especially Cybersecurity as a Service
Structure our channel Right: Use and know your metrics: unrenewed rate, BOD, ARR, white space list etc
Increase Channel knowledge by regular training, workshops, webinars
Push New topics / growth enabler like MSP and Cloud – new routes to market
Ensure tight management of partner programme requirements through the CAE Team: 100% program adherence, revenues and certification, renewals, active business plans etc., understand what partner's Business and customer set is
Success Measurement: Accelerate revenue and channel growth; persistent communication with stakeholders in all relevant departments to collect right and appropriate Information, ensure close teamwork of the CAE team with Inside-Sales as well as direct touch teams especially with the enterprise Team; promotes and supports the exchange of knowledge and best-practice-sharing between the different channel teams in EMEA Central.

What You Will Bring:

Several years team leadership experience
Working experience in 2-tier channel business, knows how this works, able to operate all tools in the background: Partner Portal, Partner Contracts, On boarding of partners, business plans for partners
Experience in working with partner, customer and internal C- level executive contacts
Experience in Sales Operations / process optimisation
Working in a commercial IT environment
Channel Sales experience
Outstanding “can-do” nature that enjoys overcoming objections and challenges.
Excellent organizational skills with ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks.
Excellent leadership skills
Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal
Understanding of sales and order process
Understanding of software license and hardware products
Financial Acumen, Ability to understand & forecast recurring revenue model (added)
Knowledge of Salesforce, PowerBI
Willingness to travel in Region
Fluent in German and English

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At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.

What's Great About Sophos?

· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.

· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit

· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy

· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities

· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint

· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp

· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge

· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

Our Commitment To You

We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.

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Skills Required

Several years team leadership experience
Working experience in 2-tier channel business including Partner Portal, Partner Contracts, onboarding and partner business plans
Experience working with partner, customer and internal C-level executive contacts
Experience in Sales Operations / process optimisation
Experience working in a commercial IT environment
Channel Sales experience
Outstanding can-do attitude and ability to overcome objections
Excellent organizational skills with ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks
Excellent leadership skills
Excellent communication and presentation skills, written and verbal
Understanding of sales and order process
Understanding of software license and hardware products
Financial acumen; ability to understand & forecast recurring revenue models
Knowledge of Salesforce
Knowledge of PowerBI
Willingness to travel within the region
Fluent in German and English

Sophos Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sophos and has not been reviewed or approved by Sophos.

Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is positioned as broad, with company-wide wellness days plus dedicated learning days and paid volunteer time.
Parental & Family Support — Family-related leave appears more comprehensive than baseline offerings, including paid parental leave, caregiver leave, and extended bereavement leave.
Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support is emphasized through always-available assistance resources and a Calm subscription, suggesting a lifestyle-oriented benefits approach.

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The Company

HQ: Abingdon

3,747 Employees

Year Founded: 1985

What We Do

Cybersecurity Evolved. As a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos protects nearly 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by SophosLabs – a global threat intelligence and data science team – Sophos’ cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions secure endpoints (laptops, servers and mobile devices) and networks against evolving cybercriminal tactics and techniques, including automated and active-adversary breaches, ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, phishing, and more.