What are the responsibilities and job description for the Strategic VAR Manager position at Sumo Logic?
Strategic Partner Manager – This role is open to any location in the US to support our Direct Sales and Partners Sales Manager teams to lead and drive Sumo Logic’s business with key Strategic Reseller Partners.
As a Strategic Partner Manager, you will own the entire national relationship for 2-3 of Sumo Logic’s top reseller partners. You will develop and own a comprehensive Strategic Business Plan (SBP) with these partners to achieve revenue goals via partner resale of Sumo Logic. These goals will include revenue and opportunity sourcing targets that will be achieved through connecting Sumo and Partner Sellers across all regions to develop relationships to drive revenue growth. You will be responsible for the overall success of the Partnership including enablement, GTM initiatives, and sales opportunities. You will collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Product Management and will be the focal point for the technical alliance Partners for all matters.
Responsibilities:
- Build a Strategic 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.
- Develop a comprehensive regional Partner map, outlining current Partner capabilities, capacity and gaps.
- Work with internal and Partner stakeholders to enable sales and technical cross-training of Sumo Logic’s solutions.
- Work with respective field teams and PSMs on demand gen initiatives and campaigns.
- Manage assigned Partners to agreed sales goals.
- Manage regular business reviews between Sumo Logic and Partners.
- Work with direct sales teams ns PSMs on various Channel oriented opps
- Maintain and report an accurate sales forecast in SFDC.
Desired Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Minimum 10 years’ in software Enterprise Sales & Partner development combined
- Prefer 5 years of experience and a proven track record selling enterprise software or SaaS to Fortune 1,000 companies and 5 years of experience developing a Partner ecosystem within a SaaS model
- Understanding of Cloud Infrastructure ecosystem is highly preferred
- Understanding of how logs support Security and DevOps Use Cases is highly preferred
- Demonstrable ability to understand, develop and navigate complex sales cycles involving a variety of stakeholders
- 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. This means...
- Must be comfortable operating in an environment where there are often processes and systems that need to be built / optimized in the course of day-to-day business.
- In high growth companies there's always more to do than people to do it. As such, the ability to set priorities, focus on details and motivate internal and external teams to deliver agreed upon goals is very important
- Ability to travel 30-50% of the time
- BA/BS degree required. Technical competence strongly preferred.
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What we do:
We are a cloud-native SaaS machine data analytics platform, solving complex monitoring problems for DevOps, SecOps and ITOps teams. Customers love our product because it allows them to easily monitor and optimize their mission critical, large scale applications.
Mission:
Democratize machine data analytics through the Sumo Logic platform, bringing real-time data insights securely through the cloud.
Massive Scale:
Our microservices architecture in AWS ingests hundreds of terabytes daily across many geographic regions. Millions of queries a day analyze hundreds of petabytes of data.