Partner Sales Manager, AWS - Canada

Responsible for improving alignment with alliances to drive a tight alignment on sales, product, marketing and commercial. This position will be central and pivotal to driving change and activating a proactive, purposeful, and predictable Go-to- Market across technical, product, sales, and marketing organization in an effort to grow Rackspace revenue through strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services. This is an individual contributor role with no people management scope.Preferred base location is Toronto, Ontario. Other eligible locations in Canada may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing/building relationship with AWS partners
• Evaluate and establish co-selling agreements when possible
• Establish programmatic selling activities with Rackspace sales team and Alliance partner sales teams
• Establish and strengthen executive sales alignment by building joint strategic business plans with partners and programmatically drive towards key success metrics.
• Participate in regular interaction with Rackspace peers across other business units as well as executives and sales leadership on activities ranging from strategic go- to-market activities to managing quarterly business reviews.
• Interact with the partner’s customer base to ensure they are successful using our services and are properly enabled to identify and qualify Rackspace opportunities.
• Assist in the development and implementation of partner enablement activities, creating repeatable best practices and measurements of effectiveness.
• Create regional field alignment between RAX Commercial and Enterprise sales teams and Alliance sales teams
• Drive co-sell motion via territory mapping
• Conduct enablement of Alliance sellers (matrixed with Product)
• Drive incremental pipeline and opportunities
• Reduce direct churn rates to alliance partners

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Sales, Technology or a related field required. At manager direction, and equivalent combination of experience & education may be considered. High school diploma or equivalent required.
• 5+ years of progressive professional sales experience in channel/partner sales, partner development, and go-to-market strategies experience.
• Related AWS certification/accreditation strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of Canadian AWS partner ecosystem, including partner economics, solution development, processes to take a solution to market and successful partner management.
• Strong understanding of channel and alliance partner programs.
• Skilled communicator and effective at delivering executive level presentations. Ability to build and manage Director and VP level relationships.
• Able to surface and resolve breakdowns in commitment and drive behavior changes required.

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