GSI Partner Development Manager - UK & Ireland

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GSI Partner Development Manager – UK & Ireland

Splunk is going through an extraordinary period of growth and we are currently looking to expand out the UK & Ireland partner organization. We are currently seeking a highly driven, and ambitious sales and alliances individual to take on the challenge of being a GSI Partner Development Manager for our top strategic GSIs to accelerate and incubate across Splunk UK & Ireland .

You will be responsible for leading Splunk’s Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy, developing Joint Business Plan and execution with them. You will work closely with the EMEA GSI Partner Development Manager(s), Partner Technical Manager(s) and Splunk Field Sales organization to ensure that both the needs of Splunk and those of the partner are being optimized to the best.

As the ideal candidate, you will have the skills to grow alliance-driven revenues to a position of market leadership. This responsibility you'll be driving will be accomplished by establishing a professional working relationship (up to executive level) with each partner using your existing contacts and by developing a core understanding of the unique business needs of the partner and how we, at Splunk can help meet those objectives.

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Responsibilities: I want to and can do that!

● You have long-term experience working with GSIs like Accenture, EY, Deloitte, HCL, etc. and an established network of contacts

● You will drive solution creation of Splunk offerings leveraging partners’ intellectual property and its respective Sales and Technical enablement.

● You will lead the alignment of the partners’ and Splunk executives (e.g QBRs) to build a mutually beneficial relationship and Joint Business Plan between the two organizations, leading to harmonized and lucrative relationships.

● You work closely with the partner technical manager to build and drive GSI Technical Enablement and Delivery Capacity plan, ensure that the partners are trained and certified on Splunk use cases as per Joint Business Plan and growth targets

● Drive, lead and grow joint sales pipelines across all motions - sell-through, & sell with. It will be important for you to fully understand the channel sales methodology.

● Support and encourage alignment between the partners’ and Splunk’s marketing teams to create and execute joint and synchronized marketing plans, to lead the tactics to ensure seamless execution of the plans.

● Create, lead and own strategic actions plan around mutually beneficial business cases, leading to overall success and accurate revenue forecasting.

● Working closely with key individuals, internally and externally, to secure partner participation at Splunk marketing events and regional user conferences.

● Act as the internal champion for the growth of the Partnerships across Splunk.

● Travel up to 50%.

Requirements: I’ve already done that or have that!

● As the successful candidate you will have a strong background in business development or strategic account sales experience within enterprise software.

○ Previous experience of handling enterprise software alliances with the Outsourcers and Systems Integrators, preferably with Accenture.

● Understand the GSI business model for those partners and can leverage their offerings to grow Splunk business.

● Having experience with direct sales (hunter/carrier and exceeded quota) to large enterprises is something which we feel would be highly beneficial. Combined with a strong, verifiable track record of managing complex, revenue generating relationships.

● Having a track record of closing large multi-million-dollar Software transactions with GSIs will be important and highly valuable.

● Proven experience of managing alliance relationships at the executive level.

● Experience in driving alliance partner relationships in a broad range of business activities - crafting joint solution offerings, marketing, training & certification and sales engagement.

● Capability to develop in-depth knowledge of a partner’s business, organizational structure, business processes and financial structure, using this to create an Alliance Business Plan. Having a sound understanding of our partner business.

● Excellent verbal and written communications skills, where you will be effective in communicating at all levels.

● Standout colleague where you will work with consistent success in cross-functional organizational structures across EMEA and globally.

● Demonstrated ability to develop vision and strategic direction.

● Ability to think strategically and creatively coupled with high analytical and business problem-solving skills.

● Bachelor's degree, or equivalent, required.

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.