Company Description
**Our Mission**
At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before.
We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we're looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.
FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work.
We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback - it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible.
It's been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values.
We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.
**Job Description**:
**Your Career**
The Distribution Business Manager will drive our entire Sales & Channels engagement with distributor across entire NextWave partner ecosystem.
You will be responsible for working with large national distributors to build annual business plans within 30 days of the close of each fiscal year-end.
Specifically defining the evolution of distributors' businesses, headcount, investments, and go-to-market strategies in each year based on Palo Alto Networks global, theatre, and regional priorities and strategies.
You will manage the overall relationship with a large Palo Alto Networks distributor.
You will also be responsible for the overall business execution and performance management with the distributor.
We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose.
We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally.
These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive.
Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change.
but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.
**Your Impact**
- Scheduling, preparing and leading recurring Business Review meetings (QBRs) three times per year with cross-functional audience Sales Management, Marketing, Services, Channel SE team, and optional attendees from Regional, Theatre, and WW management
- Meet with Distributors in the first two weeks of the quarter to update the annual business plan with the previous quarter's results and set targets, objectives, and activities for the new quarter
- Lead monthly call update distributor to cover relevant new company information or content provided in the previous month - Ensure company content, programs, and update proper "land" within the distributor and share calls-to-action for distributors with said updates
- Increasing distributor's CPQ quoting utilization - Provide adequate training - Monitor and share CPQ utilization statistics with distributors on a monthly basis
- Responsible for semi-annual NextWave Program Compliance efforts for Distribution Managed Partners, including working with the distributor on plans to address gaps in Partner requirements and to make a decision on up-leveling, downgrading, or off-boarding these Partners
- Work closely with the Renewals team and distributors in order to improve renewals process efficiency and to improve key Renewal business KPIs
- Responsible for building and monitoring plans with distributors to drive attendance to important Palo Alto Networks global, regional, and local events
- F2F presentation to distributors at the start of each quarter for product updates, business opportunities, best practices from other distributors in other regions
- Facilitate cadence of "Peering" between local management teams
- Facilitate local Sales team engagement with Distribution
- Each distributor is invited to make a presentation to the PANW Sales organization during a weekly Sales meeting at least 1 time per quarter
Distribution Operations Management
- Handle (solve or escalate) all critical issues related to day-to-day order processing and Distributor Credit Situations
- Be on site at a local distributor at each end of month / EOQ and participate actively in the "War Room" virtual environment at EOM/EOQ to ensure flawless execution of all Commit orders
- Ensure distributors are dedicatedly reviewing their pipeline to ready their systems and accounts for processing orders with available credit and no minor mistakes
- Work actively with Distributor, Channel Manager, and Sales Manager to logistics and coordination of large, multi-site / multi-theatre Global Projects
- Manage the Distribution Rebates by setting targets and defining MBOs - provide regular Rebate updates - this should include QTD against target funnel and in Quarter pipeline report
- Manage