Principal- Strategic Partnership Manager - Global System Integrators

Summary

The Strategic Partnership Manager is responsible for managing one or more selected Global System Integrator (GSI) partners. This role focuses on developing and maintaining strategic partnerships to align with Citrixs product strategy driving revenue adoption and expansion of our technologies. The objective is to embed Citrixs full range of products technologies and features into the offerings GSI partners deliver to their customers increasing Citrix adoption and usage across the customer base.

Key Responsibilities

• Global Scope: Develop and manage strategic partnerships with Global Integrators aligning with Citrixs product and market strategy to drive partnerfocused revenue. This includes creating joint visions goals value propositions and gotomarket strategies.
• Executive Relationship Building: Establish and maintain relationships with Clevel executives and leadership teams across various business units such as Offerings Sales CTO leads and Industry sectors while ensuring engagement with key collaborators.
• Alliance Growth: Strengthen Alliance contributions by enabling partners and enhancing Citrix Workspace capabilities to improve offerings and adoption.
• Strategic Insights: Gain a deep understanding of partner business strategies goals customer needs and workforce dynamics to define and guide the direction of the alliance.
• Demand Generation: Lead demandgeneration activities including account mappings workshops and Executive Briefing Center (EBC) sessions. Collaborate with Marketing Sales Architects and Channel teams to create successful gotomarket initiatives.
• Pipeline Management: Oversee the partner pipeline throughout the entire sales process acting as the primary point of contact for critical issues operational support and other partnerrelated needs.
• GSI Strategy Navigation: Understand and navigate the GSI strategy gotomarket approach structure and landscape. Advocate for joint value propositions with sales and leadership to grow and elevate partnerships.
• Drive Sales of joint solutions
• Travel Requirements: Up to 50% travel is required

Preferred Qualifications

• Over 10 years of seniorlevel experience at a leading global systems integrator management consulting or outsourcing firm with consistent Clevel engagement.
• Proven track record of leading large business units service lines or Partners with annual revenues exceeding $1 billion.
• Expertise in structuring and managing diverse partnership models including coselling valueadded reselling OEM and cloud solutions.
• Building Complex Managed Service or Software deals.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 10 years of relevant experience.
• Exceptional verbal written and presentation communication skills with experience delivering impactful presentations at partner events both inperson and virtual.
• Passionate resultsdriven and highly motivated with a resourceful and creative approach to problemsolving and teamwork.
• Skilled at managing tight deadlines in a fastpaced highgrowth environment with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to set priorities maintain focus on details and inspire both internal and external teams to achieve agreedupon goals

About Us:

Cloud Software Group is one of the worlds largest cloud solution providers serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group you are making a difference for real people each of whom count on our suite of cloudbased products to get work done from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value passion for technology and the courage to take risks. Everyone is empowered to learn dream and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.

Cloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age race color creed sex or gender sexual orientation gender identity gender expression ethnicity national origin ancestry citizenship religion genetic carrier status disability pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation status) marital status military service protected veteran status political activity or affiliation taking or requesting statutorily protected leave and other protected classifications.

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