Channel Operations Specialist

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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

We are seeking a forward-thinking, enthusiastic, and experienced Channel Operations Specialist who will support the channel partner ecosystem. You will be responsible for supporting both internal channel teams and external partners by responding to and managing inbound requests and inquiries relating to the Nextwave partner program. These requests will be wide ranging and relate to the various components of the partner program and may include channel business process support, training and enablement, master data management, exception process handling, or generally providing information to partners and internal stakeholders regarding the partner program.

Your Impact

Provide broad based operational support to our NextWave partner program, particularly by responding to inbound requests from channel partners and internal partner ecosystem stakeholders. Examples of inbound requests may involve the following business processes :

Granting, validating, and troubleshooting access to the partner portal

Ensuring accurate partner program compliance data

Deal Registration exception process handling

Partner Locator (SFDC based tool) data updates and troubleshooting

Partner applications and onboarding

Act as liaison for the Global Ecosystem Operations team with cross functional teams such as Finance, theater Sales Ops, Data Governance, and IT.

Lead and support the defining, implementation, and enablement of business process improvements.

Initiate and establish strong trusted partnerships with key stakeholders at all levels in the organization to ensure alignment and ongoing effectiveness.

Assist with tool maintenance and data clean-up projects (SFDC hygiene, etc.)

Document processes and procedures on an ongoing basis

Qualifications

Your Experience

Relevant 7+ Years experience managing, investigating, resolving high volume cases using an email based ticketing system or something similar

Strong customer service skills and attention to detail

Effective communicator that can get participants passionate about topics being presented with solid verbal, written, and presentation skills for all levels in the organization

Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams

Experience with G-suite (Sheets, Docs, Slides), ServiceNow, and SFDC (sales hygiene, reporting, maintenance), data governance / data hygiene activities

Demonstrated experience taking ownership of a business domain or managing a business process and being accountable to stakeholders

Nice to have in a related or similar field, but not required :

Experience supporting Ecosystem / Channel sales organizations - partners, distributors, cloud service providers, system integrators, etc.

Experience supporting a partner program and its various components (e.g., onboarding, compliance, deal registration, rebates and incentives, partner master data management, etc.

Experience identifying Ecosystem process issues, building recommendations and implementing strategies to optimize performance

Building and distributing enablement and training materials on various sales operations processes

This is a global role, requiring flexibility to work in shifts to support our worldwide teams and business needs.

Additional Information

The Team

Palo Alto Networks has brought technology to market that is reshaping the cybersecurity threat and protection landscape. Our ability to protect digital transactions is limited only by our ability to establish relationships with our potential customers to help them understand how our products can secure their environment. This is where our sales operation teams come in.

Our Sales Operation Team members support our sales account managers and systems engineers to assist in large organization’s migrations to more cybersecurity. Sales operations work behind the scenes to make sure that our sales relationships run smoothly, enabling and empowering the teams across the world. As part of our sales operations, you support the sales team by providing research, reports, and craft and support systems and processes that enable the process of sales. You are committed to your team’s success – and enjoy pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. It’s a true partnership, one built on building the best cybersecurity solutions for each individual client.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple : we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

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Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

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