Strategic Alliances Manager - IOPS

  • Full-time

Company Description

Snow’s mission is to provide complete insight and manageability across all technology.

Snow delivers a unique platform that brings visibility and control across on-premises and the cloud. In doing so we enable our customers to gain complete visibility, optimize cost & efficiency, reduce risk & compliance and improve their products and services. We’re unique because we provide;

•        The only crowd sourced, cloud-based normalization service. That gives our customers a single pane of glass into their use of technology. 

•        An automation engine that enables organizational efficiency and accelerates digital transformation

•        Analytics across the complete technology landscape covering Software, Hardware, Cloud Apps and Cloud Infrastructure

Snow has built the most complete platform for technology insights and manageability across on-premises and cloud environments.  We have been as recognized leader by Gartner in Software Asset Management during the last two years.

Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden we are a team of 700 employees with offices around the globe including the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore.

We are supported by a network of over 160 partners and have over 5000 customers spanning more than 60 countries worldwide. 

To sustain our explosive growth, we are looking for the brightest, and most highly skilled people who have their best work ahead of them. Now is the right time to join Snow.

Job Description

This is a strategic role required to drive business growth through our global partnerships with Indian Outsource Providers (IOP) in support of the company’s revenue goals.

The role will manage all aspects of Partners and apply insight gained having worked for relevant enterprise software organisations to drive Snow’s industry and technology propositions with partnerships in order to generate incremental revenue opportunities.

  • In close alignment with the Sales, Business Development, Marketing and Professional Services teams, the role will be responsible for the successful execution of the overall partner strategy.
  • The Strategic Alliances Manager role within Snow Software is a senior sales position covering targeted sales efforts and relationship management of several partners across the world.
  • These range from organisations with successful existing relationships that are generating revenue to embryonic relationships. The partners include HCL, Wipro, TCS & Infosys and others as decided to drive the revenue plan.
  • The candidate will be responsible for developing the business plan for these organisations, setting sales strategy; identifying mutually beneficial go to market activities and executing on these plans.
  • The goal is to deepen the relationship (increasing attributable revenue) with existing partners and to build an opportunity and revenue stream with new strategic partners.
  • Activities will include market segmentation, enablement, joint solution development & go to market strategy, and ultimately identifying, developing and driving pipeline with IOP’s to discover and deliver incremental, partner-originated revenue opportunities for the global region.
  • To achieve these objectives, the successful candidate must work cross-functionally through the various teams and support departments displaying direction and leadership to define and advance the overall business goals.
  • Ability to advocate and represent the value of the Snow Platform to a broad and diverse range of prospective Partnerships & Alliances.
  • Review and develop Snow partner strategy for improved structured and programmatic execution
  • Regularly review and adjust strategies based on shifts in technology and market trends.
  • Assume responsibility for specific Partner business and go to market plan. Developing a scalable, repeatable model driving platform sales & strategic interest with key Partners.
  • Identify, qualify, recruit, enable, develop and manage productive partnerships
  • Build deeper, more strategic and sustainable partnerships with existing Partners
  • Ensure commitment from Partners for pipeline generation and revenue goals, focus and capabilities
  • Support presentations, proposal/tender responses and early stage joint customer meetings.
  • Effectively engage and build internal cooperative relationships with the Sales function to ensure alignment with vertical business plans and to develop solutions, go-to-market and engagement models
  • Effectively engage with cross-functional resources to develop solutions, go-to-market and engagement model – presales, professional services, business development & marketing.
  • Accountability for successful partner business plan execution, through proactive engagement, regular team meetings, conference calls, and reviews.
  • Ensure effective pipeline management & sales forecasting.

Qualifications

  • Enterprise software solution sales experience
  • Demonstrable network of senior level contacts in Systems Integrators and outsource partners and proven experience of leveraging these relationships to build mutually beneficial partnerships to drive revenue.
  • Proven and demonstrable experience of driving high value sales through partners, delivering increased revenue, brand awareness and customer success.
  • Proven history of being able to work independently and with cross-functional sales, marketing and product management teams to achieve company and departmental objectives.
  • Strong business acumen and capable of developing and managing strategic plans with partner/company executives and challenging the status quo.
  • Proven history of analysing situations, employing creative and effective decision making to solve problems/achieve results.
  • Ability to excel in a team environment which emphasizes total cooperation and mutual respect.
  • Solid analytical and negotiation skills.
  • Proven track record of sales success with ability to meet or exceed revenue goals.
  • Outstanding presentation, verbal and writing skills and ability to communicate complex ideas effectively across a wide range of audience levels and functions.
  • Superb organization and time management skills. Ability to multitask effectively and prioritize against rapid timelines and competing priorities.
  • Strong knowledge of CRM & MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) essential.
  • Strong desire to succeed.
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Additional Information

This is a chance for you to accelerate your career and succeed in an environment where you will have the possibility to make a daily impact. Every day you will get to work alongside helpful and down-to-earth colleagues who are dedicated and ambitious. We fully recognize that it is our employees that make Snow a success and the global leader in the development and delivery of dedicated SAM solutions. If you are the right person for the role, we will offer you exciting and developing assignments and you will get to be part of a fantastic journey within a dynamic high-growth business.

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