Microsoft

Partner Development Management

Microsoft$133K — $222K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business Operations, or Computer Science AND 8+ years experience in partner management or related roles.
  • Master's Degree in Business Administration or advanced STEM degree AND 10+ years experience in partner management or related roles.
  • Strong negotiation skills to influence and persuade for successful agreements.
  • Ability to interact effectively with senior leaders and stakeholders.
  • Proficiency in business and technical communication in English.
  • Experience in strategic pipeline management and sales goal alignment.
  • Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of Microsoft products like Azure and Office 365.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with internal and external stakeholders to drive significant business growth.
  • Leverage technology industry knowledge to empower partners and optimize GTM execution.
  • Develop and implement strategies to manage sales opportunities and overcome challenges.
  • Communicate insights from customer feedback to enhance product offerings.
  • Collaborate with multiple internal teams to address complex partner needs.
  • Foster strong relationships with C-Suite executives within partner organizations.
  • Utilize analytical skills to identify trends and solve business problems.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangement, allowing up to 50% remote work.
  • Opportunity for career growth in a dynamic technology environment.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

As a Partner Development Manager, we are looking for you to bring your tenacious work ethic, your enthusiasm, optimism, and your unbridled passion for the customer and partner to foster profound growth and (r)evolutionary change within our partner ecosystem. You will leverage your challenger mindset, deep technology industry knowledge, and best in class interpersonal abilities to empower our partners to bring market-defining solutions to our customers. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth as you work deeply with highly complex partner organizations, building strong relationships in the C-Suite and collaborating across multiple internal stakeholders to resolve complex issues. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

As a Partner Development Manager, you will engage with stakeholders internally at Microsoft, including various sales support and specialist roles; with various Microsoft partnerships across the Latam region and the broader industry. You will secure significant growth in the business, provide insights from customer and partner feedback to improve GTM execution and secure investments to activate new offers to market.

The ideal candidate will:

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

Possess a proven history as a strong negotiator with an ability to influence and persuade to achieve mutually satisfying agreements in negotiations by garnering support for initiatives.

Executive relationships: ability to interact confidently with senior leaders of the organization in order to present/defend/clarify concerns or issues regarding an existing project, program or solution

Experience communicating with a proficiency in English, business, and technical topics in writing and orally with clarity, accuracy, and understanding to internal and external stakeholders across all seniorities.

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

Previous success with Consultative Selling demonstrating the ability to understand customer/partner needs through dialogue before recommending products/services.

Display a proven ability to manage sales opportunities and/or deals through communicating and collaborating with others and leveraging resources and tools.

Have elite business analytical acumen with the ability to collect information and identify fundamental patterns/trends in complex data to identify business needs and determine solutions to business problems.

Have an Intermediate/Advanced knowledge or Microsoft Products with an ability to develop, use, and/or discuss Microsoft products (e.g., Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Office 365) with internal teams or customers/partners.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business Operations, Computer Science 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.

Other Requirements: Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role's jo duties.

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 10+ years experience in partner management, sales, business development, or partner channel development in the technology industry or related experience
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Have an Intermediate/Advanced business knowledge of and ability to discuss Microsoft products (e.g., Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Copilot and Office 365) with internal teams or customers/partners.


Partner Development Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,000 - $222,700 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 $170,300 - $239,800 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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