Microsoft Partner Development Manager - ISV 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

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You will leverage your challenger mindset, sales management skills, technology, and industry knowledge, and best in class interpersonal abilities to enable our partners to bring market-defining solutions to our customers.

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.
• Demonstrated experience delivering business and technical topics with clarity and accuracy to internal and external stakeholders across all seniorities.
• Proven history as an effective negotiator with an ability to influence and achieve mutually satisfying agreements through negotiations.
• Ability to interact confidently with Executive Leadership Teams to present and address concerns regarding an existing project, program or solution.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

• Experience making decisions in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment, including the experience to define, diagnose, and determine an appropriate resolution, recommendation, or decision while considering alternatives and factors (e.g., resources, costs, tradeoffs).

• Experience negotiating with ability to influence and persuade to achieve mutually beneficial agreements in negotiations by garnering support for initiatives.

• Experience with interacting with senior leaders of the organization to present/defend/clarify concerns or issues regarding an existing project, program, or solution.

• Experience developing strategies to manage pipeline and meet sales goals by reviewing forecasts, assessing, and mitigating risks, and ensuring strategy alignment with business priorities.

• Experience managing sales opportunities and/or deals through communicating and collaborating with others and leveraging resources and tools.

• Experience with Microsoft Products with and experience developing, using, and/or discussing Microsoft products (e.g., Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Security, Microsoft Office 365 & Copilot) with internal teams and/or customers/partners.

Drive Revenue Growth:

• Executive Relationship Building: Build and maintain a trusted-advisor relationship with C-suite leaders of complex partners and align partners’ priorities, strategies, and goals with Microsoft’s to build mutually beneficial account plans that document goals, accountability, progress measurement, and timelines to achieve strategic alignment and drive growth and an increase of Microsoft’s share of wallet vs. competition.

• Partner Innovation & Transformation: Lead the integration of skills, capability, and capacity plans for the partner business utilizing the right mix of sales and tech training and bootcamps to increase the partners' capabilities to enable partners to build a high-impact Microsoft Services practice that grows partner business and promotes cloud consumption and digital transformation.

• Market Insight and Business Opportunity: Identify and recommend market opportunities that are aligned with competitive intelligence and Microsoft's goals and collaborate with internal teams to take advantage of opportunities.

• Develop go-to-market and co-selling strategies with complex partners, secure marketing resources (e.g., go-to-market offers) to support partners with developing marketing plans, and ensure partner readiness to execute key activities to exceed expectations to drive Microsoft and partner sales goals.

Partner Sales and Consumption:

• Lead Partner pipeline reviews and coach and challenge partners to transform their plans and strategies around consumption, and facilitate collaboration between the partners' sales team, channel managers, and other relevant teams to accelerate velocity, overcome obstacles, compete, and create deal proposals to meet consumption and key revenue targets.

• Develop Partner to Partner (P2P) relationships to expand current partnerships to grow business and fill market opportunities.

• Advocate for Partner: Evangelize partner solutions with the Microsoft field sales teams and clearly articulate the partner’s value propositions to the Microsoft teams to foster proactive engagement with Channel Management and Field sellers.

• Lead the orchestration of response to resolve complex and urgent escalations.

Disciplined Business Management:

• Drive Monthly and Quarterly Business Review and other ROBs to track progress against goals and commitments.

• Contribute to monthly Business Reviews that provide insights into trends, identifying gaps, and recommended actions to drive the business forward.
• Drive for revenue and scorecard impact through evangelizing partner value to Microsoft stakeholders & customers.
  

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