Channel Sales Incentives Partner Service Management with German

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Advanced knowledge of clients support
Fluent English and German
Strong project management and communication skills, with ability to build and maintain strong internal/external relationship
Typically 2+ years of prior work experience
Practical business skills
Strong analytics, diagnosing and problem solving skills
Ability to drive activities to closure and get things done pragmatically
Strong customer focus
Ability to work independently in a distributed organization and remain focused and committed
Exposure to commercial and customer facing environment
High accuracy level, attention to details
Organizing, planning and control skills

The EMEA Channel Data Management team is part of the Global Sales Support Operations organization and covers major processes as: Channel Data Management, Financial Claims, Partner Compensation and Market Development Funds.

Responsibilities:

The Channel Data Management consist of developing, deploying, operating and maintaining operational channel data collection assets and processes as follows:

First point for contact for HPE partners (wholesalers/resellers/retailers) and internal stakeholders on any data collection topic
Ensures that partner data is accurately reported and available in the system as per the agreed frequency
Provides, support, assistance and solutions on any issue generated by partner reporting involving as necessary any relevant HPE party
Ensures stakeholder engagement: assess/gathers business needs from users centrally and locally, communicates results and agrees on action plan moving forward
Identifies and actively manages any deviation in terms of data reporting from the standards required by HPE, in terms of layout, content and quality; provides solutions to the issue and coordinates resolution with all relevant internal and external parties; Follow up with partners not complying with reporting quality requirements
Manages issue detection and resolution
Escalates collection and/or quality issues to local management and European partner sales support team
Monitors operational performance metrics of the process
Ensures proactive communication to users (incident, maintenance, application evolution etc.).
Ensures compliance of processes vs. compliance requirement (SOX, SOV, Internal audit, documentation, etc…). Manage interactions with audit teams as required.
Ensures that information is handled according to HPE's Standard of Business Conduct's handling of sensitive information, and according to Compliance and Audit requirements.

The Financial Claims process includes responsibilities as:

Provide Partners with financial claims operational support on all related queries; claims consolidation in order to reduce partner workload and obtain faster claim validation
Support partners and internal stakeholders on major system issues, updates, changes, IT implementations, evaluation of risks, process improvements
Perform Vendor Debits investigations
Metrics reviews and KPI achievement
Back-end team support from the front-end team for FC: working together as 'one-team' on open cases, providing approvals, additional information, reinforce back-end communication to all relevant stakeholders

The partner compensation process includes 4 main processes: Quota deployment, Partner compensation, Compensation payment process and Cash engine. The process starts with target setting, terms and conditions definition, bonus calculation, partner/ Business/ financial reporting up to partner payment. The core compensation process is essential for our performance within the Channel and it is connected with many departments: Partner enablement, Sales Compensation, Contract Management, Data Management, Sales & Marketing Department, Legal, Finance, Controllership and Audit.

The responsibilities include:

Offering assistance to partners and sales representatives on all the subjects related to the compensation programs (compensation for Distributors and Resellers, Quota Deployment, Cash Engine, Payments etc.) through emails, phone calls or other internal HPE instruments, in an appropriate and rapid manner
Solving daily problems related to compensation programs cooperating with: Sales Operations, Sales Department, Channel Finance, Partners (resellers and distributors) and other parties involved
Monitoring and fully executing the compensation processes for the Partner Portfolio in a proactive manner, in order to ensure target setting, bonus visibility, disputes solving, bonus calculation and payment in an appropriate and rapid manner
Escalation management for Partners/Audit
Executing certain processes that are specific to countries where they are legally imposed

The Market Development Funds process includes a global process. The responsibilities include:

Collaborating with the distributors’ AOM (Account Operations Manager) in analyzing the use of financial resources of the MDF (Market Development Funds) program, along with recommendations for investments
Coordinating the planning and approvals for the Market Development Funds
Monitoring claims and payments status and escalating to the partner/PSS (Partner Sales Support) (where local language support is necessary, additional to the generic support offered by the GBS MDF team), in case of existing claims or missing documents
Assisting the partners/ the PSS in solving issues that arise in claims or payments
Offering trainings for the interested parties/partners regarding the MDF process
Offering internal support and reporting within the compensation program (reporting is the direct responsibility of the payments and validation teams)
Monitoring the process and gaining expertise on the compensation program
Well integrated in processes standardization and actively oriented towards continuous optimization

Only candidates who speak fluent German will be considered.