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Partner Development Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Mar 10, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Global Partner Solutions (GPS) team is a sales organization accountable for the commercial partner business at Microsoft, and the mission is to build and sell Microsoft Cloud applications, services and devices with partners, empowering people, and organizations to achieve more. We are looking to hire a Partner Development Manager for ISV partners in our Financial Services vertical. As a Partner Development Manager, you will have the opportunity to bring your work ethic, enthusiasm, optimism, and customer-centric passion to stimulate growth and transformation. Your challenger mindset, sales management expertise, technological and industry knowledge, and effective interpersonal skills will be crucial in enabling our partners to deliver market-leading solutions to our customers. This role offers a chance to fast-track your career growth as you engage with intricate partner organizations, establish robust relationships in the C-Suite, and collaborate with multiple stakeholders to boost performance and tackle complex issues. In this role, you will be accountable for your partners' commercial performance, driving sustainable sales impact from your partners to customers, and acquiring end-to-end solution selling expertise. By applying to this U.S. based position, relocation is not provided for the role.Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities Partner development and growth - You will develop and execute a strategic and tactical partner business plan in region, aligned with Microsoft goals and objectives for managed partners 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 regional 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 the 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 at a regional level. 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. OtherEmbody our Culture and Values | |