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Microsoft Partner Development Manager - GSI Singapore 489012896
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Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)
- Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business Operations, Computer Science or a related field AND 10+ years partner management, sales, business development, or partner channel development in the technology industry or related experience
- OR equivalent experience
Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)
- Master's Degree in Business Administration, Business Science, or an advanced degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) or a related field AND 12+ years partner management, sales, developer, business development, or partner channel development in the technology industry or related experience OR equivalent experience.
- Experience with Consultative Selling and developing tactics to manage pipeline, sales opportunities and meet sales goals by reviewing forecasts, assessing, and mitigating risks, and ensuring strategy alignment with business priorities.
- Possess a proven history as a strong negotiator with an ability to influence and persuade to achieve mutually satisfying agreements in negotiations by garnering support for initiatives.
- Executive relationships : ability to interact confidently with senior leaders of the organization in order to present/defend/clarify concerns or issues regarding an existing project, program or solution.
- Experience communicating with a proficiency in English, business, and technical topics in writing and orally with clarity, accuracy, and understanding to internal and external stakeholders across all seniorities.
Partner development and growth
You will develop and execute a strategic and tactical partner business plan directly aligned with Microsoft goals and objectives for all managed partners that grow partner business. You will promote cloud consumption and digital transformation; plans will fully consider short- and long-term goals and performance expectations that are aligned with partner’s 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 and challenge partners to transform their plans and strategies around sales and consumption. You will facilitate collaboration between the partners sales team, Microsoft sales teams, and other relevant teams to overcome obstacles, compete, and create deal proposals to meet consumption and key revenue targets. You will work with your partner on their top opportunities, following Microsoft sales methodology, and prioritize transactions thru marketplace where possible.
You will be responsible for your partners’ overall performance with Microsoft and accountable for keeping a regular rhythm of connection at executive, and sales and delivery team levels, to identify and resolve blockers in execution, as well as accelerate performance. You will drive adoption, usage and performance of key programs and investments applicable to your partner, that contribute to sales and consumption with end-customers. You will be responsible for creating correction of error plans when execution is below expectations.
Partner skills and capacity building
You will lead the integration of skills, capability, and capacity plans for your partners utilizing the right mix of sales and tech trainings, and bootcamps to increase the partners' capabilities. You will enable partners to build high-impact Microsoft offerings and practices which grows partner’s business and delivers cloud consumption and digital transformation.
You will represent the partner internally and lead the orchestration of response to the partner through the resolution of complex and urgent escalations advocating for the partner and guiding other groups in prioritizing partners' solutions and issues. You will orchestrate across various groups in Microsoft and within the partner organization to accelerate partner performance and execution.
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