Alliances - Partner Sales Director - Iberia Public Sector and MEA Education

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The Worldwide Alliances & Channels organization at Salesforce provides global leadership developing partnerships with our Strategic Consulting Partners and Service Partners. Salesforce is transforming the industry and works closely with  our Global and Regional System Integrators. The Partner Sales Senior Manager (PSM) is responsible for helping lead this change with responsibility for driving the strategic sales development and project success in collaboration with global management of our Strategic Alliances and System Integrators in Iberia. 

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS 

The PSM will be responsible for developing business relationships with partners to define Go-To-Market plans, Global Public Sector (GPS) and Education sales team alignment, supporting channel organizations, and other key stakeholders. The PSM’s responsibility will be to develop and drive the execution of revenue-driving programs and initiatives as well as project delivery success. 

 The PSM will also be responsible for evangelizing Salesforce’s value proposition within the partner organization and facilitating the partner’s value proposition within Salesforce and affiliated companies. 

•  Key to the position is effective collaboration with multiple cross-functional stakeholders, including sales, alliances, marketing, legal, and operations. 

•  Work with global leader(s) from the System Integrators to develop a joint strategy and plan that includes investments in capacity and skills, co-selling (influenced) revenue, and development of industry & cloud-based accelerators.

• Work with the global Industries & Partners team members to execute GTM plans  and develop Industry Clouds specific capacity plans, driving influenced ACV growth and delivering customer success. 

•  Take partner sales plays, offerings and industry assets/solutions to Education and Government specific markets for local execution and engagement with our Salesforce field sales teams and Salesforce Industries. 

•  Joint solution development & execution - Commercialize industry solutions or product extensions to leverage partner IP and vertical expertise with Salesforce Industries teams.Execute, manage and deliver global pipeline and revenue tied to the SI’s strategies and initiatives in close alignment with internal and external stakeholders. 

•  Drive execution in concert with regional ecosystem resources. Identify target accounts and sign off with sales and partner leadership. Review sales play metrics/effectiveness on recurring basis with Partners, Partner Sales team, Sales Regions & Business Development teams. 

•  Identify and recruit potential new partners with industry expertise, willingness to invest and support existing ones to develop their pre sales and delivery capabilities as well as industry solutions expertise

•  Maintain pipeline and dashboards that communicate to Executive Leadership the effectiveness of identified programs and investments. Conduct regular cadence between the SI’s & Salesforce stakeholders (Partner Sales, Sales, Co-Primes, Development, Industry Teams, Mulesoft, Tableau, etc.) 

•  Communications - Ensure effective and timely internal & external communication and coordination of Salesforce’s ecosystem strategy & execution results. 

•  This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties or responsibilities; at times other duties may be assigned. 

 WORK EXPERIENCE 

• 9+ years in a channel sales, channel management or sales roles, with strong knowledge of working with partners. 

• Preferred external Public Sector/education industry network with experience of Industry solutions and partner channel sales experience. 

•  Proven ability to build, lead and execute strategy in a cross-functional environment. 

•  Strong tolerance for ambiguity; able to focus and execute in a changing environment; ability to make things happen. 

•  Demonstrated analytical, organizational, and project management skills, using relevant information to make timely and critical decisions that affect cross-functional teams and has substantial impact on investments and program effectiveness. 

•  Demonstrable proof of producing measurable results of influenced revenue or channel sales through global strategic system integrators. Demonstrable proof of scaling capacity of global strategic partners. Ability to build and maintain positive working relationships while delivering results in a highly complex, matrixed global organization. 

•  Strong drive and character qualities that match with company core values and inspires others to follow and act. 

• Executive presence to lead and manage the most strategic global partners. 

•  Strong executive selling and business development skills; proven ability to understand different partner GTM and Organizational models. Understanding of service offering creation, marketing, lead generation and professional services organization key performance indicators. 

• Available to travel at times in the territory to meet partners and attend partner events.

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