Position Title: Strategic Partnership Manager
Salary Range: $90,000 - $120,000 base / Year, DOE + performance-based bonus potential
Turn relationships into revenue and help build the partnerships that will fuel the next stage of growth. A growing financial services company is seeking a Strategic Partnership Manager to develop, strengthen, and expand its network of referral and channel partners. This role combines strategic account management with business development, giving you ownership over partner relationships, revenue growth, joint sales initiatives, training, and new partnership development.
The candidate is ideally based out of either Texas, Ohio, Illinois, or Tennessee. However, we are open to candidates from other states in the Central Time Zone who can get here by plane. The ideal candidate must be a polished, entrepreneurial professional who understands indirect sales, knows how to work a room, and can build genuine relationships that create measurable business results. You'll thrive here if you are organized, emotionally intelligent, confident in making decisions, and energized by the freedom and accountability that come with joining a small, ambitious team.
Responsibilities - Build, manage, and strengthen relationships with strategic partners including PEOs, PEO brokers, CPAs, and other referral channels
- Develop and execute partner growth strategies designed to increase revenue, engagement, and long-term account value
- Identify, pursue, and recruit new strategic partners to expand the company's reach and referral network
- Create business plans, partner calendars, training initiatives, and joint marketing campaigns that help partners successfully promote funding solutions
- Serve as a trusted point of contact for assigned partners while providing product knowledge, resources, and ongoing strategic support
- Track partner performance, pipeline activity, sales metrics, and revenue results to identify opportunities for continued growth
- Represent the company at partner meetings, trainings, conferences and networking events with travel approximately one to two times per month
Requirements - 2-5 years of experience in partnership sales, strategic partnerships, channel partnerships, partner management or business development
- Demonstrated experience directly managing strategic or channel partners within an indirect sales model
- Strong networking and relationship-building skills with the confidence to engage clients, partners and senior business leaders
- Strong understanding of partner ecosystems, indirect sales strategies and revenue-generating partnership models
- Experience using CRM and sales reporting platforms, with HubSpot experience beneficial
- Bachelor's degree
- PEO, payroll, financial services, or fintech industry experience strongly preferred
Benefits - Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with company match after six months of employment
- 2 weeks of vacation with flexibility for additional preapproved time off
- Bank-paid holidays plus a soft company closure between Christmas and New Year's
- Company-paid business travel through a corporate card so employees are not required to cover expenses upfront
- Shortened Fridays with the company closing at noon
If you know how to turn strategic partnerships into lasting relationships and measurable growth, apply today and bring your experience to a company where your ideas, initiative, and impact will be seen.
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