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Distribution Partner Account Manager – Nordics, Baltics & Eastern Europe

Extreme Networks

remote,Stockholm, SwedenSalesFull-time
Salary1200000SEK-1400000SEK
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Extreme Networks is hiring a Distribution Partner Account Manager to lead distributor relationships across the Nordics, Baltics, and Eastern Europe. The role focuses on driving corporate sales revenue, managing inventory metrics, and executing quarterly business planning with key partners. The position reports to the Senior Director of EMEA Distribution and requires regular regional and global travel.

Remote scope
Requires regular travel across the Nordics, Baltics & Eastern Europe region and some global travel, including out-of-hours working.
Compensation
SEK 1,200,000–1,400,000 / year

What you need

  • Distribution management experience
  • Fluent English and relevant local language fluency
  • Ability to travel regularly across the region and globally
  • Presentation and problem-solving skills

What you will own

  • Drive corporate sales revenue with a focus on distributor-led high-potential resellers to ensure a pipeline of new and emerging VARs and MSPs.
  • Maintain a continuous sell-in focus to ensure distributor inventory holding metrics are met.
  • Manage the C-Level relationship and below with all distributors in the Nordics, Baltics & Eastern Europe region.
  • Build and execute plans to maximize and measure distributor performance, reflecting local plans where relevant.
  • Lead contractual and operational negotiations, as well as inventory and stocking discussions.
  • Manage weekly bookings, POS forecasts, and stock rotation expectations.
Core skills
Distribution ManagementChannel SalesPartner Relationship ManagementForecasting & Business PlanningNegotiationCommunicationProblem SolvingMarket Analysis
Internal freshness window ends Oct 21, 2026
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  • salary “OTE is on a 60/40 split and is based on qualifications and experience between 1.2 and 1.4 million SEK.”
  • location “Job location: remote,Stockholm, Sweden”
  • remote_scope “Able and willing to travel regularly across the region (some global travel) including some out-of-hours working”
  • must_have “Relevant local language fluency as well as fluent English”
distribution managementchannel salespartner relationship managementforecasting & business planning
Role brief

Distribution Partner Account Manager – Nordics, Baltics & Eastern Europe

Extreme Networks represents a tremendous career challenge and personal growth opportunity. We’re a company of strong market standing, with proven technological capability, differentiators and the growth mindset to overachieve goals.

We also adamantly promote an internal culture that truly embraces diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace. We’re proud to foster an environment where every Extreme employee can thrive because of their differences, not despite them.

Extreme’s EMEA distribution team stands out as one that fosters success in all aspects, from over-achieving sales targets to providing a first-class team culture.

We are recruiting for the role of Distribution Partner Account Manager (DPAM) responsible for our key Nordics, Baltics & Eastern Europe region. The DPAM is the ‘quarterback’ for the distributor (disti) relationship. Working closely with regional leaders plus other stakeholders, the DPAM ensures distributor activity aligns with the business priorities of the EMEA and global distribution team and to our Regional Directors’ (RD) objectives.

The DPAM is fundamentally an experienced leader and influencer who…

  • Reports to the Senior Director, EMEA Distribution as part of a global distribution organization;
  • Drives corporate sales revenue with deep focus on disti-led high potential resellers to ensure a pipeline of new and emerging VARs and MSPs;
  • Maintains continuous sell-in focus to ensure disti inventory holding metrics are met;
  • Aligns with stakeholders / business partners including iDPAM, regional RD, Channel Leaders, PAMs, Field Sales, Services/Support Team, SE teams, Disti Ops, Order Management Team, Finance, RevRec, Supply Chain and Legal team.

The DPAM owns the C-Level relationship (and below) with all distributors in region and manages these core responsibilities:

  • Builds and executes a plan to maximize and measure disti performance, reflecting local plans where relevant
  • Aligns to RD and Channel Leader to realize the reseller development potential of the region
  • Manages a consistent set of KPIs
  • Enables cloud capability into and through disti
  • Leads contractual and other operational negotiations
  • Leads inventory and stocking discussions to satisfy contractual / program minimums and other corporate objectives
  • Manages the weekly bookings and POS forecast as well as stock rotation expectations
  • Partners with distributor and Extreme channel marketing team to execute strategic marketing programs and activities
  • Leads Quarterly Business Planning (QBP) with distributors and stakeholders
  • Evaluates and enables disti partner program compliance, including competence
  • Participates in setting quarterly Value Incentive Rebate (VIR) targets and attainment tracking
  • Proactively manages MDF approvals and spend in alignment with the business and marketing plan
  • Shares best practices and initiatives, covers colleague absences when appropriate and maintains continuity of business plan for own accounts with colleagues
  • Leads a virtual team of iDPAM and other colleagues

Necessary skills will include:

  • Degree level education and/or significant distribution management experience
  • Relevant local language fluency as well as fluent English
  • An optimistic, confident and enthusiastic attitude with a progressive and pragmatic approach to achieving goals
  • Self-starter and team player
  • An experienced background or strong solution selling skillset in transmitting advanced technology differentiators into the channel
  • Able and willing to travel regularly across the region (some global travel) including some out-of-hours working
  • Strong relationship-building, presentation, AI and problem-solving skills
  • An influencer and leader

    • OTE is on a 60/40 split and is based on qualifications and experience between 1.2 and 1.4 million SEK.

    Extreme Networks Benefits

Additional

Fundamentally, the successful candidate will be someone who brings us something new, who embraces change, who is a great cultural fit, who leads virtual teams with passion and respect and who makes Extreme more relevant to our distributors whilst making our distributors more relevant to Extreme.

Extreme Networks, Inc. (EXTR) creates effortless networking experiences that enable all of us to advance. We push the boundaries of technology leveraging the powers of machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics, and automation. Over 50,000 customers globally trust our end-to-end, cloud-driven networking solutions and rely on our top-rated services and support to accelerate their digital transformation efforts and deliver progress like never before. For more information, visit Extreme's website or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. Come Advance with us! In keeping with our values, no employee or applicant will face discrimination/harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination/harassment based on “protected categories,” Extreme Networks also strives to prevent other, subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (e.g., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our organization. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Extreme Networks.