The Role: Partner Channel Manager – Southwest Region (Remote)

Who You Are:

You’re a tenacious, self-driven professional with the fortitude to be a key piece to the continued growth of our Partner Program. You are a relationship-builder ready to make a significant impact in the emergency communication industry linking our partners to code-required services to help them solve their customers’ needs.

What You’ll Do:

• Build, cultivate, and source new strategic partnerships and develop existing partners for an assigned territory.
• Demonstrate exceptional prospecting skills, leveraging both in-field visits and telephone outreach to self-generate new partner opportunities.
• Travel to partner sites, trade shows, and industry events as needed.
• Develop a solid working knowledge of Kings III products and understand the benefits they will provide to potential customers.
• Cultivate strong consultative relationships with partners to drive engagement, growth, and partner satisfaction.
• Consistently articulate Kings III’s value proposition to partners in order to maintain and increase Kings III’s share of each partner’s business.
• Exhibit assertiveness and persistence in following through the entire partner process, from initial contact to agreement execution, onboarding, and handing off to the territory sales representative.
• Work with Kings III Sales Representatives throughout the territory to connect target partners and generate referral opportunities.
• Provide detailed updates as needed on the progress of weekly and monthly goals.
• Log all activities to maintain accurate and up-to-date CRM records.
• Embrace a disciplined, repeatable process, and consistently enhance your partner skills and industry knowledge.

What You’ll Bring:

• Elevator industry experience is highly preferred, particularly experience working with or selling to independent elevator companies.
• Supplier-side elevator industry experience is a plus, especially if you’ve developed relationships with independent elevator contractors, their owners, leaders, and sales teams.
• Familiarity with the independent elevator company landscape and an existing network of industry relationships is a strong plus.
• Experience developing new business relationships from the ground up, including prospecting, opening doors, building trust, and developing long-term partnerships.
• Experience growing existing relationships and identifying opportunities to generate additional business through those relationships.
• Experience working collaboratively with sales representatives or account owners to create and develop opportunities.
• Experience supporting partner or customer onboarding, training, and ongoing relationship development is preferred.
• Experience using CRM tools such as Salesforce to manage outreach, relationships, activity, and next steps.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

What We Do:

Our mission is simple - We provide critical communications services to help people in distress.

Our Core Values are even simpler:

1. Honesty & Integrity
2. Service to the customer above all else
3. Do what is right
4. Good enough is not good enough: pursue excellence
5. Encourage individual initiative and growth

By living and breathing our mission and Core Values every day in everything we do, Kings III is creating opportunities for individuals and reducing risk, liabilities, and costs for businesses every day.

What’s in it For You:

• Medical insurance with 1 HSA and 2 PPO plan options
• Flex Spending Account (FSA)/Dependent Care FSA
• Dental, vision, life, short- and long-term disability insurance
• Critical illness and hospital indemnity plans
• 401k with company contribution
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Company-paid telemedicine 24/7 access
• Wellness Program
• Employee discount program
• 8 paid holidays, plus 1 floating holiday
• 15 days of PTO accrued in year 1
• Generous referral bonus program
• Work life balance (a must!)
• Team building, attendance at our annual kickoff each January, and other fun events
• Relaxed professional dress code

Kings III is an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.