Zone Channel Manager
2 months ago
Drammen, Viken, Norway
Eaton
Full time
About the RoleWe are seeking a highly skilled Channel Zone Manager to join our team at Eaton, responsible for the Nordics and Baltics zone and signalling, speakers, and telephone products in the hazardous markets.
Key Responsibilities- Develop and Execute Channel Strategy: Create, maintain, and grow Eaton's relationship with local channel partners, EWS, technical distributors, and resellers within the zone.
- Account Management: Develop, adapt, and execute a tailored strategic growth plan for each account, communicate to internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment.
- Business Development: Identify new business development opportunities and potential new routes/channels to market, developing a business development strategy relating to the sales objective and channel management in line with the European strategy.
- Competitor Tracking: Undertake competitor tracking within EWS to ensure visibility of market share and corresponding actions are taken, feedback to internal stakeholders.
- Contract Negotiation: Supervise and negotiate contracts with EWS, key customers, CAPs, and distributors.
- Education: Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or similar (Business & Sales related education will be considered as well).
- Experience: 5+ years of sales experience, with proven track record in driving B2B sales where diagnosing complex customer needs is critical (ideally electrical area, however other relevant experiences will be considered).
- Language Skills: Fluent written and spoken English and Norwegian languages essential for this role.
- Challenging Projects: Collaborative team environment with dynamic projects.
- Internal Promotion: Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible.
- Employee Growth: We invest in our employees for the long term – not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University.
- Wellness: We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it's about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen.