Partner Sales Manager

Sumo Logic Sumo Logic · Enterprise · Australia · Global Channels and Partners

Partner Sales Manager for Sumo Logic, focusing on developing and managing partnerships (AWS, SIs, MSPs, VARs) to drive revenue through 'sell with' and 'sell through' strategies. Responsibilities include recruiting partners, creating business plans, collaborating with internal teams, and managing sales forecasts. Requires 10+ years in enterprise sales and partner development, experience with complex sales cycles, and creating partner business plans, preferably with security service providers. Technical competence is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify, recruit and operationalize new Partner organizations to help expand Sumo Logic’s indirect sales reach within an assigned territory
  2. Build a regional Partner business plan with quantified goals and milestones to achieve Partner sourced revenue metrics and address certified Partner capacity gaps such that regional capacity exists to meet all quarterly sales requirements.
  3. Work with direct sales teams / reps on various Channel oriented opps
  4. Maintain and report an accurate sales forecast in SFDC.

Skills

Required

  • Enterprise Sales
  • Partner Development
  • Business Planning
  • Sales Forecasting
  • SFDC

Nice to have

  • Technical competence

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum 10+ years’ in software Enterprise Sales & Partner development combined
  • Direct experience creating and executing Partner business plans with both Global and regional sized Partners with an emphasis on security service providers.
  • Experience working in a start-up environments is essential.