# Principal GSI Partner Manager - Accenture (EMEA)

**Company**: Datadog
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for an experienced Partner Sales Manager to ignite partnerships by identifying and recruiting new partners for long-term success and nurture ongoing relationships with key strategic Global Systems Integrator partners.

Our ultimate goal is building channels and alliances that drive new customer adoption and revenue.

This is a great opportunity for you to join a high-growth cloud software company and help blaze the path for our company's expansion.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table.

We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

### Responsibilities

- Identify and recruit new strategic Global SI partners to drive revenue growth

- Enable and activate existing GSI partners through training, planning and joint selling activities

- Coordinate the technical and marketing aspects of integrated partnership launches

- Host regular business reviews with partners to drive accountability and report on success metrics

- Work hand-in-hand with Datadog's regional enterprise and commercial sales organizations

- Generate partner-sourced net-new sales pipeline and revenue

### Requirements

- 10+ years of partner-facing, quota-carrying experience in business development, strategic alliances, or channel sales at a cloud services or software as a service organization

- Proven experience in driving sales opportunities from lead generation to closure, effectively negotiating agreements and building long-lasting partnerships

- Understanding of, and exposure to working with, the leading Global and regional SIs

- Ability to quickly understand technical concepts and architectural scenarios, and explain them to others verbally and in writing

- Willingness to travel 40-50% of the time

- Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for taking initiatives from ideation to impact

- Passion for fast-paced, sometimes unpredictable growth culture and environment

- Background in SaaS and / or consumption based software platforms

- Experience in identifying market opportunities with a track record of initiating go-to-market plans and sales follow-through

### Benefits and Growth

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

## Skills

### Required
- partner sales
- strategic alliances
- channel sales
- cloud services
- software as a service
- business development
- lead generation
- negotiation
- partnership launches
- sales pipeline

### Nice to have
- SaaS
- consumption based software platforms
- systems management
- monitoring
- Containers
- DevOps
- cloud environment

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