Senior Partner Sales Manager

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us

We are excited to open the role for a Partner Development Manager with the key goal of engaging today's most outstanding business partners in ANZ This role will be key in building a world class ecosystem enablement initiative through researching, identifying, qualifying, enabling and collaborating with strong partners and establishing a team relationship to take on & build customer solutions together. Partner Development Managers think differently than traditional Channel Account Managers by understanding today's SaaS consumption model and having an ambitious mentality. Engagement is the most helpful in resolving modern partner relationship success

What you'll do

• Recruit, qualify, enable and build partner relationships
• Grow consumption and net new logos thru partner set
• Build and maintain metrics for partner success
• Work with various business units within New Relic - Sales, Customer Service/Technical teams, Services, Product & Marketing teams
• Lead partner relationship & enablement initiatives across New Relic ecosystem partner types
• Partner onboarding: Work with our Partner Engineering team to build & enable the partner experience to ensure the partner is prepared to articulate the value prop of New Relic's Observability platform
• Work closely with the Partner Engineering, Partner Enablement and leadership teams to agree upon priorities and develop content
• Update and build playbooks for generating business with partners, working closely with the customer success teams, partner engineering teams, partner operations, account executives and partner marketing
• Collect and evangelize partner success journeys internally with sales teams, management, and externally within partner ecosystems
• Distribute partner success & enablement content to pre and post sales teams 
• Work with Leadership & Sales Operations to measure program efficiency across partners

This role requires

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Sales experience and Partner building & enablement experience 

Bonus points if you have

• Experience in partner training and enablement and/or software sales experience
• Experience with application performance, observability and/or SaaS
• Experience with major cloud providers - AWS, Azure, GCP
• Experience working across Sales, Consulting Services, Customer Centric Teams, Marketing, and Business Units to build a culture of alignment.
• Experience managing and partnering with external consultants/partners/3rd parties
• Experience in the Software and Services industry with a strong eye for business to support relationship building and partner management

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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