.Building on this organizational mission, the ISV organization's mission is to build & scale the ISV ecosystem worldwide to deliver rapid business growth, platform differentiation & solution innovation across the Microsoft Cloud. Together with ISV partners, we work to delight every customer and drive their success. As a Partner Development Manager, we are looking for you to bring your tenacious work ethic, your enthusiasm, optimism, and your unbridled passion for the customer to foster profound growth and (r)evolutionary change within our partner ecosystem. You will leverage your challenger mindset, deep technology industry knowledge, and best-in-class interpersonal abilities to empower our partners to bring market-defining solutions to our customers. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth as you work deeply with highly complex partner organizations, building strong relationships in the C-Suite and collaborating across multiple internal stakeholders to resolve complex issues. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Responsibilities Executive Relationship Building: You will build and maintain a trusted-advisor relationship with C-suite leaders of complex partners and will align partners' priorities, strategies, and goals with Microsoft's to build mutually beneficial account plans to achieve strategic alignment and drive growth. Microsoft Business Leader: You will lead the creation and landing of the strategic partner vision which aligns the partner's potential impact and business goals with the Microsoft value proposition and value propositions of products, channels, or solutions, to drive an increase of Microsoft's share of wallet vs. competition. Partner Innovation & Transformation: You will lead the integration of skills, capability, and capacity plans for the partner business utilizing the right mix of sales and tech trainings and bootcamps to increase the partners' capabilities to enable partners to build a high-impact Microsoft Services practice that grows partner business and promotes cloud consumption and digital transformation. Partner Sales and Consumption: You will lead partner pipeline reviews and coach and challenge partners to transform their plans and strategies around consumption, and facilitate collaboration between the partners sales team, channel managers, and other relevant teams to overcome obstacles, compete, and create deal proposals to meet consumption and key revenue targets
