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Microsoft Senior Partner Development Manager 
United States 
438864212

10.09.2024

Senior Partner Development Manager.In this role, you will be responsible for leading a partner’s commercial performance and driving sustainable sales impact. You will gain expertise in end-to-end solution selling and influence partner innovation. Your role will involve developing and driving business strategy between Microsoft and the partner, acting as a trusted advisor and business leader. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth as you work with highly complex partner organizations, build strong relationships in the C-Suite and collaborate across multiple stakeholders to accelerate performance and resolve complex issues. Additionally, you will actively seek to further your career through recommended and additional training.


Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business Operations, Computer Science or a related field AND 5+ years experience in partner management, sales, business development, or partner channel development in the technology industry or related experience
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 5 + years experience leading Partner/customer cloud services strategy development experience
  • 5 + years experience demonstrated ability to motivate & drive sales results through a global v-team
  • 5 + years experience in driving business reviews across various regions and leading the implementation of sales discipline among diverse stakeholders

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Business Administration, Business Science, or an advanced degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) or a related field AND 8+ years experience in partner management, sales, business development, or partner channel development in the technology industry or related experience
    • OR equivalent experience
  • Enterprise sales leadership experience
  • Ability to analyze partner business model & financials, pipeline opportunties to develop business models and new revenue streams
  • Have the ability to frame ambiguous business opportunities, create structured business recommendations, adapt quickly based on senior stakeholder input and effectively communicate to internal & external leadership teams.
  • Experience with technology platforms and solutions with a reasonable level of technical proficiency
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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 20, 2024.
Responsibilities
  • artner development and growth
    • You will develop and execute a strategic and tactical partner business plan aligned with Microsoft goals and objectives for a managed partner to grow their business. You will promote cloud consumption and digital transformation; plans will consider short and long-term goals and performance expectations aligned with partner needs and capabilities.
  • Partner Sales and Acceleration
    • You will develop a go to market plan and co-sell execution tactics, lead partner pipeline reviews and coach partners to transform their strategies around sales and consumption. You will facilitate collaboration between partner and Microsoft sales teams to overcome obstacles, compete, and create proposals to meet consumption and revenue targets. You will work with your partner on top opportunities following the Microsoft sales methodology and prioritize transactions through marketplace, where possible.
  • Partner performance and Impact
    • You will be responsible for your partners’ performance with Microsoft and accountable for keeping a regular rhythm of connection with executive, sales and delivery teams to identify and resolve blockers in execution, and to accelerate performance. You will drive adoption, usage and performance of programs and investments that contribute to sales and consumption. You will be responsible for the correction of errors plan when execution is below expectations.
  • Executive Relationship Building
    • You will build a trusted-advisor relationship with C-suite leaders of complex partners and align their priorities, strategies, and goals with Microsoft’s to build mutually beneficial account plans and achieve strategic alignment and growth.
  • Partner skills and capacity building
    • You will lead the integration of capability and capacity plans for your partners utilizing the right mix of sales and tech training to upskill the partner. You will enable partners to build high-impact Microsoft offerings and practices to grow their business and deliver cloud consumption and digital transformation.
  • Advocate for Partner and Team Mobilizer
    • You will represent the partner and lead the orchestration resolution to complex and urgent escalations. You will guide internal groups to prioritize partners' solutions and issues. You will engage across groups internally and with the partner organization to accelerate performance and execution.