Partner Development Manager CTJ - Secret

We are looking to hire a Partner Development Manager to join Microsoft Federal.

The Microsoft Federal organization was established to address the unique mission, legal/regulatory requirements, and procurement rules and processes of the United States Government (USG). Microsoft Federal is committed to ensuring its resources - including appropriately qualified, experienced, and certified personnel (with necessary security clearances or otherwise) are available as needed to meet USG evolving needs. To that end, Microsoft embraces, as a mission-critical philosophy, flexibility in the recruiting, hiring, and workforce assignment of Microsoft Federal personnel. Microsoft Federal personnel can expect to serve in various roles in the Microsoft Federal organization during the course of their career to meet evolving USG needs, regardless of segment - Civilian, Defense, or intelligence community.

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

Responsibilities:

Microsoft Business Leader

Trusted Advisor: Uses Challenger mindset to influence and engage partners and develop a trusted-advisor relationship with leaders and partners to establish strategic alignment and drive growth. Understands and aligns partners' priorities, strategies, and goals with Microsoft's to build mutually beneficial account plans. Builds and maintains trusted advisor relationships with partner through a deep understanding of their local strategy and business imperatives. Identifies and clearly articulates business opportunities for partners and suggests ways to pursue them.? Fosters a broad stakeholder map.

Architecting Partnership Success - Strategic Business Development & Execution: Leads Business Design briefings to architect framework for partnership to optimize mutual success, advising partner leadership on building a high-impact Microsoft partner practice. Develops and executes strategic partner business plans directly aligned with field goals and objectives for all managed partners that grow partner business and promote cloud consumption and digital transformation. Develops plans that fully consider short- and long-term goals and performance expectations that are aligned with partner's needs and capabilities. Shares experience with partners, to create strategies with line of business executives that challenge the partners to consider new or different ways to grow businesses. Champions Microsoft as a valued partner by aligning vision for tech and services with future opportunities to transform how we compete. Drives a strategic, effective, and actionable World-class Account Plan to land Global Partner Solutions (GPS) priorities.? Establishes and maintains partner Rhythm of Business (RoB) across all levels and takes share as appropriate. Brings deep subject matter expertise to enrich designs and plans.

Enhancing Partner Skills, Capacity & Growth: Helps lead the integration of skills, capability, and capacity plans for the partner business. Influences partner to create a learning culture. Applies and offers various sales and tech training and bootcamps to increase the partners' capabilities. Helps lead campaigns to drive growth and transformation. Helps lead the creation of local strategies to align capacity and capability of the partner to compete, gain, and win share for Microsoft solutions to expand platform and sockets for services. Helps lead efforts to build and scale partner digital selling capabilities. Monitors market landscape and partner's impact and uses this knowledge to influence the local strategy in business planning decisions.

Portfolio Management: Maintaining a pipeline for partner opportunities in Microsoft CRM tools and collaboration across MCEM process with Account, Technical and Customer Success Teams. Evaluates managed partner portfolio to identify patterns, opportunities, and gaps in partner accounts. Proposes existing products and solutions or recommends new solutions in which partners can jointly invest to fill gaps. Aligns partner needs and interests with market opportunities. Applies working knowledge to build and maintain Quarterly Execution Plans focused on Core & New to build a healthy portfolio of solutions offerings.

Vision, Impact & Market Expansion: Leads the creation of a strategic vision rooted to the Partners impact and potential across segments. Demonstrates an understanding of the Industry and Partners business and conveys the value of partnering with Microsoft based on the business opportunity and possible competition. Responsible for establishing new market partnerships by working with market makers and making connections. Begins to think longer term regarding the possibility of making larger deals. Establishes long-term strategic vision for the partnership, creating opportunities for deeper commitments. Sells account vision to and shares market opportunities decision makers and complex partners by aligning overall Microsoft value proposition and value propositions of products, channels, or solutions to the partner's business goals. Leads prep sessions and round-tables to influence partners strategy and builds stakeholder maps to expand network and identify market opportunities based on industry gaps and emerging trends in solution/product areas. Develops and maintains in-depth knowledge of products, channels, end customers, and industry and market trends to share with partner(s).? Upholds Microsoft policies, procedures, and/or legal compliance standards. Delivers and influences mid-term partnership horizons. Drives understanding of the multiple facets of a partnership.



Partner Sales and Consumption

Drive Partner Performance & Impact: Possesses a challenger sales mindset and begins to apply this in interactions with partners. Orchestrates reviews of Partner's pipeline, top deals, and consumption targets. Coaches the partner on top deals and ensure close alignment between the partners sales team, Account and Technical managers, and other relevant teams. Supports the partners sales leaders on how to overcome obstacles, compete, create deal proposals, etc. Helps lead the development of partnerships with Global Partner Solutions (GPS) to gain support for strategic transformational initiatives to drive incremental cloud growth. Influences the development of partnerships across Microsoft and partner sales teams to manage pipeline and drive large opportunities/deals. Influences how partners are guided through Digital transformation by building Digital capabilities with a Challenger mindset: sharing ideas, perspectives, and building a trusted advisory relationship.? Drives partner integration of the common sales and delivery methodology for Microsoft for customer opportunities, helps accelerate pipeline by removing blockers, and helps drive key sales motions, programs, and incentives with their partner. Helps identify new opportunities with partner, document in Microsoft Sales Experience (MSX), connect Microsoft and partner sellers, and help move through sales stages. Demonstrates pipeline ownership, translating into advanced deal control and forecasting.

Accelerate Growth: Leverages internal resources to develop Go-to-Market (GTM) and co-selling strategies that define activities and expectations to meet Microsoft and partner sales goals. Prioritizes accounts for developing go-to-market strategies. Advises partner on meeting various programs, initiatives, sales, incentive, and tech requirements. Shadows other Partner Development Managers (PDMs) through orchestration and acceleration of removing roadblocks, including internal escalation(s) as needed. Helps partners understand what a consumption-led business is and how it operates, coaches partners around consumption economics (e.g., leverages reports, analyses, etc.). Demonstrates effective pipeline management and limited seller mobilization with leadership sponsorship. Identifies co-selling and customer transactions through Marketplace.

Go to Market Strategy: Helps lead campaigns with various functional areas and the partners marketing teams. Oversees planning, campaign tactics, offers, and incentives. Ensures core activities are agreed upon before executing and helps to coordinate resources. Ensures sales targets are clear and that actions and accountabilities are being routinely followed up. Ensures Launch Excellence with sales readiness, and GTM activities. Supports partner readiness by assisting partners in the development and execution of marketing plans with guidance to generate customer sales (e.g., campaigns, incentives, and promotions). Secures marketing resources (e.g., go to market offers) to assist partners with developing marketing plans. Provides support to partners on deals to gain commercial and consumer share. Helps ensure Launch Excellence by supporting Partner sales readiness and go-to-market activities.?? Demonstrates a basic understanding of GTM programs and runs generic campaigns. Builds and launches integrated industry specific offerings on Marketplace with partners.

Partner Performance and Impact

Deliver Results: Ensures results on partner's behalf through resolution of complex and urgent escalations. Leads the orchestration of response to the partner to ensure timely action and resolution from internal teams. Executes a rhythm of business (RoB) for regular partner reviews and quarterly business reviews (e.g., Monthly Business Reviews (MBRs), Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs)) to track plan execution, identify gaps and agree on any correction of errors in alignment with appropriate stakeholders. Advocates to and guides other groups in prioritizing partners' solutions and issues. Champions internal processes that benefit partners and brings insights into the organization around what the partner experience looks like. Advocates for the development of relationships with Partner Solution counterparts (SI & ISV PDM, Partner Technical Specialist, Partner Marketing Advisor-Modern Work) in support of Microsoft solutions through partner GTM.? ?Advocates for partner(s) internally at the local level by connecting partner(s) to Microsoft executives to facilitate local reviews for opportunity pipelines and transformational projects.? Actively seeks opportunities to demonstrate the value of the partner to other organizations within Microsoft.

AI & Cloud Transformation: Leads and implements assessments of the partners' journey of building world class teams and helps to oversee the sharing of assessment results with other Partner Development Managers and the partners. Helps partners lead with and implement AI, Intelligent Edge, Intelligent Cloud to create strategic alignment through storytelling with local partner executives to gain commitment to build their selling/technical skill sets and incentives for their customers.? Influences and plays an active role in Cloud sales transformation (e.g., readiness, compensation, territories).

• Embody our culture and values

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.
• 4 years relationship management with technical acumen in software sales.

Other Requirements

The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.

Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

Cloud Screening: Candidates must be able to successfully complete and pass a Microsoft Cloud background screening. Required Cloud Screenings will be administered on a recurring bi-annual basis.

Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government clearance.

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.

Partner Development Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,100 - $185,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $144,000 - $203,500 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 27, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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