Manager, Partnerships & Business Development (Remote)

Description: * Manages up to 30 channel partners across a region. * Ideate and develop new solutions with partners in core ICPs - Customer Support, IT, Operations, Finance, HR teams. * Recruits partners and strengthens relationships to drive commitment to HappyFox products and solutions. * Participates in and coaches partners through planning, demand gen, and business dev to increase HappyFox commitment, capability and pipeline. * Manages Channel Partner relationships and pipelines. * Maximizes pipeline generation and activities to support. * Coordinates with cross-functional organizations effectively. * Maximizes partner revenue gen by managing all non-deal specific activities associated with partner recruitment, partner demand gen, and support. Objectives: * Develops channel programs and recruits partners globally to make the channel a growth lever at HappyFox. * Coordinate and manage enablement efforts with HappyFox Partners and sales/solutions engineering. Responsibilities: * Primary relationship owner with the partner. * Educate partners by coordinating and delivering ongoing training, skills transfer, driving demand generation and business development. * Ensure successful customer implementations through increasing the number and capability of skilled technical individuals at the partner. * Orchestrate resources to support partners and help strengthen relationships with HappyFox teams. * Ensure participation in marketing and channel strategy programs. * Maintain senior-level relationships to gain commitment and ensure HappyFox is top of mind for partner business leaders (e.g. included in annual/quarterly business plans, reviews). * Monitor and provide insight into the partners' business and technical service capability, financial results, and investment in selling HappyFox products and services. * Facilitate internal resources, and investments needed to execute the business plans in order to help meet business goals. * Develop cadences with all partners and do joint sales clinics and reporting. * Completely own the relationship and joint success with partners. * Coordinate sales demos, partner ordering, and partner enablement.

Capabilities: * Relationship building to develop and strengthen partner relationships. * Planning and financial skills including business planning and basic knowledge of economics of the channel ecosystem. * Knowledge of HappyFox and understanding of how HappyFox products create value for customers. * Ability to help partners communicate value proposition to customers. * Understanding of partners' and customers' business needs. * Prospecting skills - ability to recruit new partners. * Ability to engage, excite, influence and coordinate both partners and across HappyFox teams. * Selling experience and ability to provide guidance to partners on selling and closing skills. * Presentation skills in a 1-many environment to deliver HappyFox messages and positioning to partners. * Experience in pipeline build with partners including planning, gaining senior sponsorship, delivering sales training, sales coaching, managing timely execution and follow-up.