Senior Partner Development Manager

With Confluent, organisations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better everyday – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organisation to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Data Connects Us.

About the Role:

We are seeing a significant increase in the partner ecosystem's interest globally and specifically with our GSIs to work with Confluent. We are looking for a Global Account Manager to run our partnerships; and to join the team to develop a comprehensive strategy with select partners, drive pipeline through strategic initiatives, build skills and capabilities and be a force multiplier for scale and growth of our data streaming platform across our strategic partners. 

A Global Account Manager at Confluent is a business leader responsible for building and nurturing relationships with partners to drive joint sales opportunities and expand Confluent’s market reach through joint business planning and execution.  This role involves leading and setting strategy with selected GSIs; and this individual would own the end to end partner business planning, governance and sales execution in collaboration with sales team members and executives, ensuring mutual growth and success within Confluent’s partner ecosystem.

What You Will Do:

• Candidate will be responsible for building the global Confluent partnership with partners that includes: executive sponsorship/cadence, 3 yr business plan and vision, solution development, sales targets, enablement, and marketing execution 
• Develop and world class business plans with associated QBR governance & exec sponsorship with partners to include committed targets & shared metrics.
• Manage potential conflicts and develop aligned approaches and resolutions at Executive levels
• Run Global Pipeline calls , Bi-weekly Alliance Cadence call and Governance
• Lean on established trust based relationships with key executives in GSI’s to open new opportunities and fast track  joint business 
• Execute through a framework of governance by conducting periodic pipeline reviews, QBR/monthly business reviews and KPI/Metrics for progress made.
• Work closely with the sales and marketing teams to create partner development strategies, sourced opportunities, revenue growth, market expansion, and increased net new logos
• Work strategically to identify new industry specific ‘use cases and solutions’ 
• Build a target account list and drive a co-sell strategy by aligning sales teams of partner and Confluent
• Work with the Global Partner teams to manage the field execution while triangulating GSI strategy with CSP’s. Drive and Manage Geo Partner Managers and Territory Partner Managers for seamless execution

What You Will Bring:

• Established operational relationships within the Global SI community (TWITCH preferred) 
• 8+ years of related experience in partner sales, business development, and/or partner development 
• Track record of consistent quota attainment & over achievement
• Strong executive presence and ability to influence senior executives
• Strategic thinking including analytical and financial planning skills to meet and exceed quotas and goals. 
• Ability to engage directly in the sales cycle on joint ‘must win’ pursuits/opportunities, as well as facilitate joint engagement as and when necessary.
• A strong background in sales or alliance partnerships gained within the Cloud/SaaS space, managing multi-million-dollar deals
• Demonstrable track record of achieving and exceeding targets whilst managing a small number of large accounts or alliance partners, ideally with a next generation software company
• Familiarity with GCP, Azure, and/or AWS offerings and GTM approach. OEM is a plus.

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