Partner Development Manager - Distribution

Overview

As a Partner Development Manager in the Global Channel Partner Sales organization, you will help shape how some of the region’s most strategic distributors grow and transform across the ASEAN. You will work directly with partner executives to identify new growth opportunities, build ambitious business strategies, and translate them into disciplined execution across multiple countries, operating at the intersection of AI, Copilot, Cloud, and Security. You will influence senior leaders while orchestrating Microsoft, partner, and country stakeholders around shared business outcomes, combining regional strategy with hands-on execution to deliver measurable impact with multiple countries stakeholders.

In this role, you will lead the creation of long-range strategic visions rooted in partner impact and potential and translate those visions into concrete go-to-market plans that transform partners’ business models and capabilities. You will help partners build new practices, accelerate customer adoption, and create scalable motions that increase reach and deepen preference for Microsoft across markets. By solving complex challenges around scale, capability, execution, and customer reach, you will develop deep expertise in executive engagement, commercial strategy, ecosystem leadership, and artificial intelligence–led transformation while multiplying Microsoft’s ability to reach and empower customers across multiple countries.

At Microsoft, our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth‑mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress, people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.

Responsibilities1. Executive relationships and strategic vision

Build and maintain trusted-advisor relationships with C-suite and senior executives at strategic partners, using insight-led conversations to align business models, investments and capabilities to shared growth and customer-outcome targets. Create a long-range strategic vision for complex partners and communicate Microsoft's value proposition to key business decision makers. Advocate for partner priorities within Microsoft and represent Microsoft's strategy to partner leadership.

2. Strategic account and business planning

Lead the creation of long-range strategic visions grounded in partner impact and potential across segments, building trusted-advisor relationships with senior leaders at complex distributors and aligning joint business plans to growth opportunities and emerging trends. Lead business-design briefings and develop strategic partner business plans aligned to Global Channel Partner Sales priorities, cloud consumption and digital transformation goals. Develop and execute strategic partner business plans and world-class account plans that drive cloud consumption, digital transformation, and aligned go-to-market priorities across multiple countries, establishing clear rhythms of business and performance expectations