Principal Global Account Manager, GSI - Accenture

Available Locations: London Lisbon Amsterdam Munich or Paris

About The Role

We are seeking a Principal Global Partner Account Manager to join our Global System Integrator (GSI) team. The role is based out of EMEA and will report to the Sr. Director Global Partners.

The Partner Account Manager will be responsible for joint go-to-market establishing and strengthening executive relationships generating revenue through one of Cloudflares most strategic partnerships Accenture. This role will focus on developing and executing partnership strategies that enhance collaboration drive revenue growth and leverage the combined strengths of our organizations to deliver exceptional value to clients within EMEA. .

The ideal candidate will have strong executive presence established relationships and experience leading GSI partnerships in EMEA preferably in the technology and/or security and networking sectors. They can work independently to build a strategy and execute the plan leveraging stakeholders both internally and externally. They will have the ability to influence decisions and investments. Key stakeholders include Cloudflare Leadership Account Executives Solution Engineering Channel Managers Customer Success teams Sales Operations Marketing teams and external Partner executives.

You will be expected to travel as required. The ideal candidate will have a network of existing partner contacts within Accenture including client account leads practice leads and decision makers.

Key Accountability: Achieve and exceed partner booked sales goals.

Responsibilities

• Create and implement strategic alliance account plans for assigned partner(s) that aligns with overall business objectives and growth targets.
• Identify opportunities for joint ventures co-marketing initiatives and solutions integration that leverage the strengths of each partner
• Build the joint go-to-market services and solution stack offerings working closely with the global alliances team and services team
• Drive high-level engagement between Cloudflare leadership and Accentures senior executives industry leads and delivery teams
• Partner with Accenture teams to support the creation of scalable implementation practices including training certifications reusable solution assets and reference architectures.
• Act as the primary contact for all partner-related inquiries and ensure effective communication and collaboration
• Business planning including account mapping development and execution of the joint growth and customer acquisition strategies to expand into new verticals and territories
• Own and run Business and Quarterly Planning/Reviews both internally and externally
• Track and analyze partner performance metrics including targets revenue attribution and market impact
• Own the plan for ongoing training & support for client leads and technical resources
• Work with GSI partnerships and /or field sales on RFPs proactive account planning deal registrations and forecasting

Desirable skills knowledge and experience

• Relevant Bachelor Degree
• 15 years experience working with Global System Integrator partnerships.
• Existing relationships with Accenture required plus experience working with other GSIs (EY Deloitte)
• Executive presence with proven success in managing large enterprise partnerships with demonstrated results in driving growth and innovation
• Experience working in the Technology sector. Network and/or cybersecurity vendor experience a bonus
• Excellent communication negotiation and presentation skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
• Strong analytical skills and experience in utilizing data to inform strategic decisions.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across various teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical skills and experience in utilizing data to inform strategic decisions

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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