Microsoft

Builds workplace software, PCs and cloud services

Partner Solution Sales Manager

Business Development & PartnershipsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeMakati, Metro Manila, PhilippinesNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and 6 or more years of experience in core sales, partner sales, industry or solution selling, marketing, or business development, or equivalent experience.
Doctorate and 5 or more years of experience in core sales, partner sales, industry or solution selling, marketing, or business development, or equivalent experience.
Master's degree and 8 or more years of experience in core sales, partner sales, industry or solution selling, marketing, or business development, or equivalent experience.
Bachelor's degree and 12 or more years of experience in core sales, partner sales, industry or solution selling, marketing, or business development, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Proactively track cloud solution area co-sell pipeline performance and address low performance through correction of errors efforts.
Track partner sales capabilities and capacities for sales practice acceleration and growth, and provide insights into future practices.
Track partner incentive utilization and its impact on pipeline velocity, and influence partners to improve performance.
Ensure partners are tracking to target by solution area.
Track quarterly forecasts to ensure they meet or exceed revenue accountability.
Lead partner co-selling efforts with assigned partners to drive sales pipeline.
Develop and execute co-sell strategies that outline activities to meet or exceed Microsoft and partner sales targets.
Lead collaboration between internal and external stakeholders to accelerate deal execution, leverage investments, and accelerate sales.
Share innovative sales best practices that drive business forward and influence others across the market.
Work with prioritized solution area-aligned partners to identify and cultivate new customer opportunities.
Drive the qualified partner pipeline and progress it through the sales cycle.
Ensure partner adoption of investment levers to create opportunities and accelerate deal velocity.
Help partners understand the commercial and customer value of sharing security-related opportunities with specialized partners, and coach the team to collaborate with specialized security partners for outbound sharing.
Develop and share partner co-selling best practices with partners and global peers through community forums; contribute to listening circles and worldwide learning initiatives as a subject matter expert, including supporting peers with security optimization strategies.
Share local market solution area business momentum insights and corporate research related to customer demand.
Accelerate cloud solution area sales practice with partners, focusing on pipeline, go-to-market sales, and co-sell execution.
Drive a predictable cloud solution area rhythm of business and mitigate partner performance issues to ensure delivery of partner targets.
Collaborate with and influence segment sales teams to drive co-sell performance through joint execution.
Create joint solution area sales plans with prioritized partners to address complex customer needs and drive quarterly revenue accountability.
Identify, understand, and evaluate partners' cloud solution area sales practices, aligning them to security partner targets.
Lead strategic alignment with organizational units and overall partner business plans to meet sales objectives.
Integrate security considerations into partner alignment processes, and guide teams to establish partner plans that position Microsoft Security solutions alongside partner offerings, differentiate Microsoft from competing security solutions, and help mitigate customer risk.
Maintain an in-depth understanding of and uphold Microsoft's current compliance processes.
Guide partners on solution plays and ensure they have the capability and capacity to deliver the solution value proposition.
Lead pipeline management meetings and unblock deals by connecting with Microsoft resources.
Develop creative plans using Microsoft internal resources, including investments and funding, and coach partners on using these resources to accelerate the sales process.
Conduct business reviews with key partner stakeholders and hold partners accountable for delivery against agreed plans.
Initiate solution area sales planning with assigned partners and ensure coverage to support targets.
Monitor, manage, and provide insights into a predictable sales pipeline rhythm of business with assigned solution area partners.
Manage and support top partner deals and overall partner revenue aligned to the solution area.

Overview

Proactively creates, nurtures, and influences a partner ecosystem to drive larger impact for the customer. Drives collaboration between stakeholders from different parts of the business to create demand, bring new ideas to market, establish quality partner connections, and orchestrate processes to set expectations and generate trust. Connects partners with sales teams and drives increased awareness in new industry solutions that can be applied across accounts to move sales forward. Engages partners and co-sellers proactively to ensure right co-sell prioritization and pipeline coverage to support targets. Leverages resources and programs across accounts to support partner co-sell pipeline velocity and alleviate friction points. Maintains and stays up to date on Microsoft's sales compliance processes.

Responsibilities

Collaboration & Co-Sell

Proactively tracks cloud solution area co-sell pipeline performance and addresses low performance through correction of errors (CoE) efforts. Proactively tracks partner sales capabilities and capacities for sales practice acceleration and growth, meanwhile providing insights into future practices. Proactively tracks partner incentive utilization and impact on pipeline velocity, and influences the partner to improve performance. Ensures partner is tracking to target by solution area. Tracks quarterly forecast to ensure it meets and/or exceeds revenue accountability.

Leads partner co-selling efforts with portfolio of assigned partners to drive sales pipeline. Drives the development and execution of co-sell strategies that outline activities to meet and/or exceed Microsoft and partner sales targets. Leads collaboration efforts between internal and external stakeholders to accelerate deal execution, proactively leverage investments, and accelerate sales. Shares innovation in novel sales best practices that drive business forward and influences others across the market.

Partner Engagement

Works with prioritized solution area-aligned partners to identify and cultivate new opportunities with customers. Proactively drives the qualified partner pipeline and progresses it through the sales cycle. Ensures partner adoption of investment levers to create opportunities and accelerate deal velocity. Helps partners understand and realize the commercial and customer value of sharing security-related opportunities with specialized partners and coaches team to collaborate with specialized security partners for outbound sharing.

Proactively develops and shares best practices for co-selling with partners and global peers through community forums, contributes to listening circles and contributes to and influences worldwide learning initiatives as a subject matter expert, including supporting peers with security optimization strategies to strengthen co-sell approaches and knowledge-sharing initiatives. Shares market local solution area business momentum insights and corporate research for customer demand.

Drives the acceleration of cloud solution area sales practice with partners, with a focus on pipeline, go-to-market (GTM) sales and co-sell execution. Proactively drives a predictable cloud solution area rhythm of business (RoB) and anticipates and mitigates performance issues with partners to ensure delivery of cloud solution area partner targets. Proactively collaborates with and influences segment sales teams to drive co-sell performance with partners through joint execution.

Partner Solution Area Sales Plan

Proactively creates joint solution area sales plans in partnership with prioritized partners in the solution area portfolio relevant to customer segment to address complex customer needs and drive quarterly revenue accountability. Owns the identification, understanding, and evaluation of partners' cloud solution area sales practice(s), addressing and aligning to security partner targets. Leads the strategic alignment with organizational units and overall partner business plans to meet sales objectives. Drives integration of security considerations into partner alignment processes, guiding the team to establish partner plans with clear positioning of Microsoft Security solutions that complement partner offerings, differentiate Microsoft versus competitive security solutions in the partner portfolio, and help mitigate customer risk.

Sales Process & Sales Management

Maintains an in-depth understanding of, and upholds Microsoft's current compliance processes.

Guides partners on solution play and ensures partners have capability and capacity to deliver the value proposition of the solution play. Leads pipeline management meetings and unblocks deals by connecting with Microsoft resources. Drives creative and advanced plans leveraging all of the Microsoft internal resources (e.g., investments, funding) and coaches the partner on how to accelerate their sale process using these tools/resources. Drives business reviews with key partner stakeholders and holds partners accountable for delivery against agreed plan.

Proactively initiates solution area sales planning with assigned partners and ensures coverage to support targets. Monitors, manages, and provides insights into a predictable sales pipeline rhythm of business (RoB) with assigned solution area partners. Manages and support top partner deals and overall partner revenue aligned to solution area.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in core sales, partner sales, industry or solution selling, marketing, or business development OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

Doctorate AND 5+ years experience in core sales, partner sales, industry or solution selling, marketing, or business development OR Master's Degree AND 8+ years experience in core sales, partner sales, industry or solution selling, marketing, or business development OR Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in core sales, partner sales, industry or solution selling, marketing, or business development OR equivalent experience.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

About the Company

Microsoft

Builds workplace software, PCs and cloud services

Microsoft builds workplace software, operating systems and cloud infrastructure for consumers, businesses and government agencies, from small organizations to global enterprises. Microsoft 365 combines Word and Excel with Teams communication and Copilot AI features, while Windows runs PCs and Surface supplies the company's own computers. Azure rents computing capacity, storage and databases to build and run web applications. Microsoft also sells Xbox consoles and games, collecting revenue through software licenses, subscriptions, usage charges and product sales. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Redmond, WA
Founded: 1975

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