Partner Development Manager

**Partner Development Manager**:
Singapore (APAC-HQ), Singapore

+ 1 more location

Date posted

**Aug 18, 2025**
- Job number

**1858168**
- Work site

**Up to 50% work from home**
- Travel

**25-50**%**
- Role type

**Individual Contributor**
- Profession

**Sales**
- Discipline

**Partner Development Management**
- Employment type

**Full-Time**

**Overview**:

- The Partner Development Management role involves leading the creation of a long-range strategic vision rooted to the partner's impact and potential across segments, selling account vision to senior business decision makers at highly sought-after partners, identifying market opportunities based on industry trends, developing go-to-market and co-selling strategies, ensuring partner readiness through marketing plans, and resolving complex escalations on the partner's behalf. The role requires skills such as optimizing account operations, cultivating strategic partnerships, selling solutions, strategically managing sales pipelines, communicating with impact, and maximizing business opportunities.

**Qualifications**:
**Required/minimum qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business Operations, Computer Science or a related field AND 12+ years experience in partner management, sales, business development, or partner channel development in the technology industry or related experience OR equivalent experience.

**Additional or preferred qualifications**
- Master's Degree in Business Administration, Business Science, or an advanced degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) or a related field AND 15+ years experience in partner management, sales, business development, or partner channel development in the technology industry or related experience OR equivalent experience.

**Responsibilities**:
**Microsoft Business Leader**
- Uses Challenger mindset to build, maintain, and own a trusted-advisor relationship with C-suite leaders of complex partners to achieve strategic alignment and drive growth. Understands and aligns partners’ priorities, strategies, and goals with Microsoft’s to build mutually beneficial account plans.
- Executes and drives action through regular partner reviews and quarterly business reviews (e.g., MBRs, QBRs) to track plan execution, identify gaps and agree on any correction of errors. Builds, maintains, and owns trusted advisor relationships with partner through an advanced understanding of their local strategy and business imperatives. Identifies and clearly articulates current and future business opportunities and ways to pursue them. Influences and plays an active role across a complex stakeholder map.
- Leads the integration of skills, capability, and capacity plans for the partner business. Influences partner to create a learning culture. Strategically builds solutions for partners that utilizes the right mix of sales and tech trainings and bootcamps to increase the partners' capabilities. Builds up an intensity within the organization by establishing Centers of Excellence and other related bodies. Leads partner to convert capacity and capability to revenue by setting clear revenue targets and works with partners and/or customers to provide coaching and guidance to convert partners to revenue streams. Strategically builds plans to drive growth and transformation.
- Create local strategies to align capacity and capability of the partner to compete, gain, and win share for Microsoft solutions to expand platform and sockets for services. Creates process to build and scale partner digital selling capabilities. Actively monitors market landscape and partner's impact and uses in-depth knowledge to influence the local strategy in business planning decisions.
- Evaluates managed partner portfolio to identify patterns, opportunities, and gaps in partner accounts. Proposes existing products and solutions or recommends new solutions in which partners can jointly invest to fill gaps. Aligns partner needs and interests with market opportunities. Applies working knowledge to build and maintain Quarterly Execution Plans focused on Core & New to build a healthy portfolio of solutions offerings
- Leads the creation of a long-range strategic vision rooted to the Partners impact and potential across segments, and serves larger and more complex partners. Demonstrates a deeper and expert understanding of the industry and Partners business and how it can be integrated into the Microsoft landscape and conveys the value of partnering with Microsoft based on the business opportunity and possible competition. Responsible for establishing new market partnerships by working with market makers and making connections to think long-term, and establishes long-term strategic vision and the art of the possible for the partnership, leading opportunities for deeper commitments. Sells account vision to senior business decision makers at highly sought-after partners by aligning and reinforcing overall Microsoft value proposi