# Partner Strategy Manager

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: RTP, North Carolina, North Carolina
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $155,500.00 - $226,800.00
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world.

You will help craft Cisco's CX partner strategy, collaborating closely with senior leaders to scale partner programs that drive global growth for Cisco.

**Your Impact:** You will help organisations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

**As a Partner Strategy Manager you will:**

- Develop and execute partner-led customer success strategies to accelerate customer adoption and value realisation.

- Drive projects that identify and explore new opportunities and business models to develop partner capabilities and services, then lead the decision-making, execution and success metrics to make those opportunities a reality.

- Work closely with Cisco business units and cross-functional leadership to formulate long-term strategic priorities and plans related to partner service offerings, engagement models, and ecosystem growth opportunities.

- Influence across external and internal collaborators, partnering closely with Cisco’s CX, partner, sales, product, partner programs and other teams.

- Become an expert in Cisco’s partner business and have a deep understanding on the markets we serve and competitors we face.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

- 5+ years' experience in partner ecosystems within enterprise technology. 8+ years overall working experience in customer success, management consulting, professional services, or partner strategy.

- Demonstrated leadership and communication skills to work with senior leaders across various geographies.

- Solid understanding of high-tech industry and the role partners play, with proven ability to ramp up quickly in new areas.

- Excellence in all areas of strategy development, including project management, business analysis, problem solving, verbal and written communication, consensus building, and influencing without direct authority.

- Outstanding business judgment, including strategic decision-making with tactical execution, interpersonal savvy, and a resilient problem solver.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Partner management and customer success experience in a fast-paced environment within technology.

- Experience translating technical solutions and services into customer value and business outcomes in sophisticated environments.

- Strong organisational, analytical, and influencing skills with the ability to lead multiple projects with minimum supervision.

**Benefits:**

- Medical, dental and vision insurance.

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.

- Paid parental leave.

- Short and long-term disability coverage.

- Basic life insurance.

- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.

- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness.

- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year.

- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program.

- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter.

**Salary Range:** $155,500.00 - $226,800.00

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## Skills

### Required
- partner ecosystems
- enterprise technology
- customer success
- management consulting
- professional services
- partner strategy
- leadership
- communication
- strategy development
- project management
- business analysis
- problem solving
- verbal and written communication
- consensus building
- influencing without direct authority
- strategic decision-making
- tactical execution
- interpersonal savvy
- resilient problem solver

### Nice to have
- partner management
- technical solutions
- services into customer value
- business outcomes
- organisational
- analytical
- influencing skills

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