Sr Partner Account Manager

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About the Team

About the Role

As a Sr Partner Account Manager (PAM) for Australia you are the primary strategic owner of a portfolio of highimpact partners. You are responsible for overall partner strategy and development including growth strategy practice health delivery quality and enablement ensuring partners are on a successful trajectory and aligned with Workdays priorities.

You will lead joint business planning performance management and multistakeholder coordination across Sales Services Marketing and Customer Success. You will also act as the voice of the partner internally and a trusted advisor to partner executives.

In this role you will be responsible for:

Partner strategy growth & practice health

• Serve as the primary Workday point of contact and strategic leader for assigned partners owning the multiyear partner strategy and execution plan.

• Define and drive growth strategies across partnersourced and partnerinfluenced pipeline bookings and customer expansion aligned to regional and global GTM priorities.

• Assess and guide practice health including capacity capability certifications deployment quality and customer satisfaction leveraging programs such as the Partner Collaboration Program and related enablement.

Joint business planning & performance management

• Lead the creation and execution of annual joint business plans with partners covering revenue targets pipeline solution focus areas certifications marketing and customer success and ensure plans are visible and maintained via Partner Center/SFDC.

• Run structured governance rhythms (QBRs MBRs executive checkins) with partner leadership and internal stakeholders driving accountability against agreed goals and corrective actions as needed.

• Monitor key performance indicators (pipeline coverage win rates attach rates deployment outcomes growth reporting certifications) and proactively identify risks and opportunities.

Sales & opportunity collaboration

• Partner with Channel Account Executives Partner Sales Executives and Field AEs to align on coverage models segmentation and rules of engagement for partnerled and cosell opportunities.

• Jointly manage and forecast pipeline with partners participating in weekly forecast calls and leveraging sales stage templates and progression guides to ensure deal quality and accuracy.

• Support resolution of channel conflicts and complex deal structures through effective stakeholder management and datadriven recommendations.

Enablement marketing & customer success

• Orchestrate partner enablement across sales solution consulting deployment and support ensuring partners complete required onboarding certifications and advanced accreditations.

• Collaborate with Partner Marketing on joint campaigns events and marketplace initiatives that build partner awareness and pipeline in Australia.

• Ensure partners support strong customer success outcomes including growth reporting adoption and expansion working with Customer Success and Services counterparts as needed.

Leadership & advocacy

• Act as the internal advocate for your partners representing their perspective in sales product and program discussions while upholding Workday standards and strategy.

• Contribute to the evolution of partner programs processes and tools by sharing best practices and feedback from the field.

• Coach and mentor more junior Partner Managers and crossfunctional colleagues on partner engagement best practices.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in partner management channel sales alliances or business development in enterprise SaaS/Cloud consulting or related fields.

• Proven track record managing strategic partners or alliances in ANZ preferably with experience across SI VAR or referral models.

• Demonstrated experience building and executing joint business plans with measurable revenue and practice outcomes.

Other qualifications

• Strong relationshipbuilding and communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across sales services marketing and operations teams.

• Comfortable working with data: tracking performance metrics preparing partner reviews and turning insights into actions.

• Interest in partner business models (services resell referral) with a desire to grow into owning more strategic partner portfolios over time.

• High learning agility and curiosity about Workday products programs and the partner landscape.

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work were combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections maintain a strong community and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways so rather than a number of required days in-office each week we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers prospects and partners (depending on role). This means youll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business team and personal needs while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote home office roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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