About Us
Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
The Channel Account Manager (CAM) is accountable for managing our Growth Sophos partners for the North and East Region. They are responsible for developing joint business plans with partners to hit revenue and profitability targets by developing MDR services, MSP and next-gen portfolio opportunities, as well as new logo, up-sell, cross-sell and renewal conversations with existing customers.
What you will doDevelop relationships at all levels across the partner for North and East region to drive revenue growth and profitability; particularly for mid-market customers, MSP and Managed Detection and Response (MDR).Build and execute business plans that identify, develop and close incremental opportunities to deliver outstanding growth for the partner and Sophos.Enable partners to take full advantage of Sophos’ comprehensive solution and services portfolio to improve their customer’s security protection and response. Directly support partners to qualify and close complex customer deals, engaging wider sales and sales engineer teams where required to gather insights and ensure accurate business forecasting.Own and manage the frequent joint business review and planning process between Partners and Sophos decision makers, incl. clearly defined KPI’s and SMART goals with agreed outcomes.Collaborate to develop marketing plans with partners to drive incremental sales pipeline ensuring high return on investment from activities like lead gen campaigns and events.Coordinate the involvement of Sophos staff, including product management, sales, SE, marketing, support, service, and management resources to meet partner performance objectives and partner expectations.Drive high renewal rates by ensuring partners focus on their renewals and build an engagement plan to align Sophos and Partner teams, identify new business and cross sell opportunities.Motivate, educate, and ensure Partner sales and technical staff are go-to-market ready, provide access to certification and training materials and develop an enablement plan.What you will bring8-10 years of Cybersecurity Channel Sales experience and managing a North and East territory Strong experience working with Partners & Distributors in IT SecurityExperience coordinating & selling security solutions.Experience using Salesforce CRMPrior experience on Power BI and Microsoft officeStrong prior experience in partner presentation and enablement #LI-Remote
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· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
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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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