Director - Partner Specialist

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 In doing so we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world You can help us to achieve our mission Responsibilities Co-Sell Partnerships Monitors and manages co-sell engine development to deliver results across teams and supports individual contributors in their co-selling efforts Ensures accountability for achieving intellectual property IP and or service co-sell targets across teams at subsidiary and territory levels Tracks and assesses co-sell channel performance and adjusts strategies as needed ensure success Provides guidance on priorities to build revenue and establish an optimal mix between inbound and outbound opportunities Leads the creation of partner ecosystem connections and builds impactful relationships Delivers partner expertise to account teams to facilitate solution selling builds this expertise across teams gains input and support from Microsoft executive stakeholders and defines a governance structure to merge and manage lead pipelines Leverages an understanding of emerging industry needs and the competitive landscape to identify and attract partners that can deliver co-sell solutions that drive broader customer adoption of Microsoft technologies Considers go-to-market plans from partners perspectives and works with partners management to identify and drive opportunities to land sales across geographies Leads partner recruitment and strategy at the leadership level across territories to identify partners that can generate increased revenue with unique industry solutions Works with Account Team Unit ATU and Specialist Team Unit STU teams to ensure alignment around the partner strategy generate pipeline and revenue dashboards and determine the revenue generated through collaboration across teams Partner Impact Champions executive sponsorship of innovative solutions and the presentation of solutions Leads regular executive engagements and reviews Makes recommendations to leadership team based on key performance indicators KPIs and maintains accountability for customer and partner experience indices Leads correction of error plans and ensures execution across teams Provides feedback to program management marketing teams and business groups proposing changes to resources and programs as necessary Works with services leads to take action based on feedback to impact strategic change Maintains and stays up to date on sales compliance processes Verifies reviews and approves sales execution submissions e g funding requests Ensures teams maintains alignment with Microsoft s compliance policies Qualifications Required minimum qualifications 5 years people management experience Master s Degree in Sales Marketing Business Operations Business Administration or related field AND 15 years core sales channel sales industry or solution selling or business development experience AND Minimum of 3 years in Azure compete solution Sales 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 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