CONNECT Partnerships Manager

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

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Job Title: CONNET Partnerships Manager

Location: Lake Forest CA San Landro CA Scottsdale AZ Houston TX and Philadelphia PA (Hybrid)
Reports To: Director CONNECT Platform (Regional)

About the Role

The Regional Partner Manager is a critical go-to-market role within AVEVAs CONNECT Platform GTM team responsible for scaling the indirect revenue engine across Channel partners Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and strategic Alliances.

As AVEVA transforms toward a cloud-native data-centric business with CONNECT positioned as a strategic growth platform this role spearheads partner-led pipeline generation accelerates partner-sourced/partner-attached deals and operationalizes AVEVAs emerging Alliance strategy in-region.

You will blend channel program development partner enablement joint selling and strategic business development acting as the executor of strategy between AVEVAs distributors MSP partners and major technology alliances. This role is ideal for a partner-oriented SaaS GTM leader who can build ecosystems operationalize partner motions and guide partners through their first CONNECT wins while establishing repeatable playbooks for scale.

Key Responsibilities

1. Channel Enablement & Scale

• Serve as the primary regional interface for CONNECT within AVEVAs Channel ecosystem working with distributors and resellers to build CONNECT competency and pipeline.
• Deliver targeted partner enablement: product training value-based sales coaching demo readiness and deal-qualification frameworks (e.g. MEDDPICC-lite for Channel).
• Support active sales cycles with priority distributors by co-selling guiding opportunity shaping helping partners close their initial CONNECT deals and building their ability to independently execute (teach them to fish).
• Operationalize in region scalable Channel programs including onboarding certification pathways playbooks SPF/MDF programs and joint marketing campaigns provided by Solution providers leadership.
• Track partner performance: pipeline creation win rates forecast health and overall Channel contribution to CONNECT ACV.

2. Managed Solution Provider Program Acceleration

• Drive regional momentum for the CONNECT MSP program. Identify new MSP candidates support onboarding and accelerate existing MSPs toward revenue impact.
• Deploy monitor and support CONNECTED OEM Campaign via Channel
• Partner with Channel to shorten MSP sales cycles remove operational friction and coordinate technical commercial and legal workflows.
• Work with MSPs to define packaged CONNECT offerings use-case templates billing models and repeatable deployment patterns.
• Support MSPs first customer acquisitions helping them build their own flywheel of CONNECT adoption and expansion.
• Monitor MSP pipeline renewals and customer success indicators to ensure predictable growth from each partner.

3. Alliance Strategy and Partner Enablement

• Champion CONNECT within strategic Alliance partners (e.g. hyperscalers data platforms OT/IT integrators) ensuring CONNECT is positioned as a preferred or co-sell-aligned solution.
• Operationalize Alliance motions in-region - developing joint account strategies partner-facing value propositions technical integration narratives and field enablement content.
• Build cross-regional coordination mechanisms with Alliance HQ teams to ensure alignment on messaging incentives and joint GTM priorities.
• Identify shape and progress Alliance-attached opportunities that leverage CONNECTs interoperability with ecosystem products (e.g. data lakes AI/analytics platforms).
• Track and influence regional Alliance KPIs including co-sell pipeline marketplace traction and strategic account wins.

Strategic Feedback & GTM Iteration

• Capture lessons from Channel MSP and Alliance engagements to refine CONNECTs partner strategy program design commercial models and enablement materials.
• Provide structured feedback loops into Product Sales Ops Marketing and the broader GTM organization to strengthen partner motions and accelerate scale.
• Contribute to defining AVEVAs future Partner GTM playbooks including segmentation incentives operational workflows and success metrics.

About You

You are a partner-first commercial builder with the ability to influence across a complex ecosystem. You know how to develop high-trust relationships with distributors MSPs and technology alliances - and youre equally comfortable executing at the programmatic level and rolling up your sleeves to help partners close their first few deals.

You thrive in fast-evolving environments where you are building new motions reducing ambiguity and creating repeatable operating models for scale.

Required Skills & Experience

Partner Management & Channel Expertise

• 5 years in Partner Management Channel Sales Alliances or Business Development roles for a B2B SaaS Cloud or Data Platform company.
• Demonstrated success building and scaling revenue through partnerspreferably across Channel distributors MSPs and strategic Alliances.
• Experience designing or running partner programs (enablement certification marketing co-sell incentives).
• Ability to coach partners on value selling qualification frameworks and deal execution.

Sales & Commercial Skills

• Strong commercial acumen with experience supporting or leading complex sales cycles.
• Ability to support early-stage deal execution with partners (joint discovery solution framing negotiation alignment).
• Familiarity with enterprise selling frameworks such as MEDDPICC Challenger or Command of the Message.

Technical & Product Fluency

• Ability to understand and articulate SaaS data platform integration and cloud deployment conceptsenough to guide partners through positioning CONNECT against alternatives.
• Experience supporting OT/IT industrial SaaS or data/AI ecosystem partnerships a strong plus.

Cross-Functional Influence & Execution

• Proven ability to operate in matrixed organizations and drive alignment across Sales Product Marketing and Services.
• Strong program management skillsable to define operating mechanisms measure performance and scale repeatable processes.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to enable motivate and influence both internal teams and partner organizations.

Mindset

• Builder mentalitycomfortable creating structure from ambiguity and scaling motions from zero to repeatable.
• High ownership bias for action and comfort with an incubation-stage product and GTM model.
• A self-starter who can operate autonomously while keeping stakeholders aligned.

Why This Role

CONNECT is at the center of AVEVAs transformation and this role is foundational in unlocking one of our biggest growth levers: the partner ecosystem.

As a Regional Partner Manager you will:

• Shape and scale the indirect revenue engine for CONNECT across Channel MSP and Alliance partners.
• Influence regional and global strategy for AVEVAs next-generation cloud platform.
• Work alongside senior leaders across Sales Product and Ecosystem teams.
• Build repeatable GTM playbooks that will define how CONNECT scales globally in 2026 and beyond.
• Be positioned for upward growth into Partner Leadership Regional Sales Leadership Ecosystem Strategy or Platform Commercial roles.

USA Benefits include:

Flex work hours 20 days PTO rising to 25 with service three paid volunteering days primary and secondary parental leave well-being support medical dental vision and 401K.

Its possible were hiring for this position in multiple countries in which case the above benefits apply to the primary location. Specific benefits vary by country but our packages are similarly comprehensive.

Find out more: working

By default employees are expected to be in their local AVEVA office three days a week but some positions are fully office-based. Roles supporting particular customers or markets are sometimes remote.

Hiring process

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Find out more: AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software with more than 6500 employees in over 40 countries. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life such as energy infrastructure chemicals and minerals safely efficiently and more sustainably.

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