Regional Partner Manager
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Pune
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Sales
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- - 10+ years of experience in Partner Management and Business-to-Business sales experience.
- - Bachelor's degree or global equivalent in an IT, business or sales related field, preferred.
- - Proven results in a partner-oriented sales environment.
- - Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- - Must be able to manage expectations of our partners and internal resources accurately and efficiently.
- - Must have in depth experience managing partner activity and implementing changes to optimize processes.
- - Understanding of technology, technology innovations, and new technology in large enterprises.
- - Expected 40-50% business travel.
- Regional consideration :
- - Ability to address cultural and geographic differences.
- The path to success :
- In setting the right foundations, you should achieve these milestones during your 1st month with the company.
- - Understand the SailPoint partner program.
- - Understand the value proposition of SailPoint and the growth drivers in APJ.
- - Segment and prioritize your partners in each market.
- - Meet with the regional leaders to develop cross-functional collaboration.
- Continuing to build those foundations you should have achieved these milestones by the end of your 2nd month.
- - Understand the partner onboarding and enablement process.
- - Meet with partners to understand their value proposition and services offered.
- - Weekly meeting with sales management and AEs to align on field engagements.
- - Develop partner market segmentation and playbooks.
- Building on the foundations, you should have achieved these milestones by the end of your 3rd month.
- - Meet with strategic and focused partners to develop a business plan.
- - Map our key priorities with the GTM initiatives of our partners.
- - Work with the AEs on their top accounts and partner engagement.
- By the end of your 4th month, in addition to the attainment and continued development of your first 3 months activities, you will have :
- - Develop the partner strategy for optimal market coverage.
- - Develop joint GTM offerings and marketing activities for pipeline generation.
- - Enablement plans to increase the sales and delivery capacity.
- On completing your first successful 6 months in this role at SailPoint you will have :
Full description
SailPoint is the leading, AI-driven security platform providing the autonomous governance that best solves the needs for the modern enterprise.
SailPoint makes it possible to automate and streamline the identity journey.
We marry technical expertise with business acumen to deliver identity security that will drive business forward.
We are proud of our team and the culture we have built which has led to our employees voting us "best places to work" - 15 years in a row.
About the role :
We are seeking an experienced, highly motivated Regional Partner Manager to run the India partner ecosystem.
The RPM will help manage the relationship between SailPoint and your assigned designated regional partners.
In this role, you will develop and implement a regional partnership strategy to increase the reach and impact of SailPoint's ongoing efforts in advancing our technology and agenda into our partners GTM methodology and business strategy.
You will be instrumental in acting as a liaison between SailPoint's GTM organization and our Partners GTM organization.
By doing so, you will help create market strategies to develop pipeline, monitor performance against defined KPI's, drive certifications, build and execute on partner business plans, along with connecting and establishing a cadence with key executive relationships within both SailPoint and your partners.
As a Regional Partner Manager (RPM) you will have a demonstrated record of success in partner relations and account management for regional partnerships.
The Regional Partner Manager must have a bias towards action, be proactive and must be able to work independently.
This includes being hands-on, team oriented, entrepreneurial business acumen and leadership possessing excellent communications skills, passion, dedication, and creativity to achieve company goals and revenue in the specified territory.
The Regional Partner Manager must possess integrity and confidence and will have the ability to embrace the vibrant culture of SailPoint.
Responsibilities :
- Creating, enabling, maintaining, and expanding the routes to market and indirect sales channels that can be used to grow SailPoint revenues.
- Own and manage the business plan with regional strategic partners to drive alignment, enablement, and demand generation, to include but not limited to :
i. Define and implement market coverage strategy.
ii. Building GTM solutions and offers.
iii. Alignment to internal and external resources inside the specified territory.