Senior Partner Sales Manager
As a Partner Sales Manager, you will own the partner development opportunities with two strategic Sumo Logic Partners – Optiv and Trace3 . You will be a strategic thinker with a focus on driving revenue (“sell with” and “sell through”) across enterprise business and have a “problem-solving” mindset. 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.
You will own the task of managing and growing our overall Partners leveraged revenue objectives within an assigned geographic territory.
Responsibilities
- Identify, recruit and operationalize new Partner organizations to help expand Sumo Logic’s indirect sales reach within Optiv and Trace3.
- Build a National Partner business plan with quantified goals and milestones to achieve Partner sourced revenue metrics.
- Develop a comprehensive 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 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 / reps on various Channel oriented opportunities.
- Maintain and report an accurate sales forecast in SFDC.
Required Qualifications and Skills
- 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
- Understanding of Cloud Infrastructure ecosystem is highly preferred
- Understand 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.
About Us
Sumo Logic, Inc. empowers the people who power modern, digital business. Sumo Logic enables customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications through its Sumo Logic SaaS Analytics Log Platform, which helps practitioners and developers ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern security threats, and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures. Customers worldwide rely on Sumo Logic to get powerful real-time analytics and insights across observability and security solutions for their cloud-native applications. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.
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The expected annual base salary range for this position is $123,000 - $166,000. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but aren’t limited to) role level, skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, location, and experience. In addition to base pay, certain roles are eligible to participate in our bonus or commission plans, as well as our benefits offerings, and equity awards.
Must be authorized to work in the United States at time of hire and for duration of employment. At this time, we are not able to offer nonimmigrant visa sponsorship for this position.
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What We Do
Sumo Logic is the pioneer in continuous intelligence, a new category of software, which enables organizations of all sizes to address the data challenges and opportunities presented by digital transformation, modern applications, and cloud computing. The Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ automates the collection, ingestion, and analysis of application, infrastructure, security, and IoT data to derive actionable insights within seconds. More than 2,100 customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic to build, run, and secure their modern applications and cloud infrastructures. Sumo Logic delivers its platform as a true, multi-tenant SaaS architecture, across multiple use-cases, enabling businesses to thrive in the Intelligence Economy.
