Apac Alliances Director

**APAC Alliances Director**

**ROLE Overview**

Both the domestic and global landscapes continue to grow in complexity as organisations around the world evaluate, select and implement the full HCM spectrum of solutions to ensure continued expansion and prosperity.

The APAC Alliances Director has a leading role to manage a team to drive this critical activity and deliver rapid growth and expansion throughout Australia & New Zealand, Greater China, ASEAN, India, Japan and Korea against this volatile global backdrop.

Develops alliances sales strategy, identifies key alliance programs and manages a regional team to produce significant impact on sales growth in the assigned regions.

Lead APAC alliance team to recruit, develop and manage strategic partner alliances/partnerships and opportunity pipelines and ensures the retention, growth and customer satisfaction of key accounts.

Evangelizes organization products in conjunction with recruiting key alliances/partnerships.

Evaluates program trends and provides analysis and recommendations to management.

Works toward mutual goals, strategies, and objectives to build awareness and support of overall strategic benefits of the alliance.

Provides for financial analyses, long-range forecasting and analysis studies associated with potential alliances/partnerships.

Monitors programs to assess the sales impact of the solution(s) in the markets and the overall success of the alliances. Monitors competitor activity in accounts and implements strategies to maintain account ownership and block competitor advancement.

In this role of APAC Alliances Director
- Has the remit to lead APAC Alliances team to conceive, develop, implement all the necessary activities to ensure that ADP maximizes revenue performance of Partners including Technology, Service, System Integrators and Consultancies will proactively develop and deliver their assigned sales plan in local, regional and Multinational Sales opportunities through driving opportunity, influence and leads to the ADP domestic and Global Sales teams.
- Will be aligning and working with ESI Alliances management, Field Sales leaders, Marketplace leaders, and Strategic Alliances colleagues in the USA.
- Manages and works with APAC Alliances team to execute on regional alliances sales plan, roll out key alliance program, expand partner ecosystem into new markets, and accelerate sales growth across APAC.
- Partners and collaborates across Business, Product and Marketing Leadership and peer Alliance partners providing alignment to Field Sales, Marketing, Sales Operations, Sales Support and Operations. Driving actions, mutual initiatives, field activity and aligned sales strategies to promote and increase pipeline, opportunities, deal velocity and value in the target region.
- Oversee alliances support for key deals in APAC involving alliance partners

KPIS will be defined and agreed, results will be measured by individual and team performance such as Alliances strategic connects, Partner leads, Pipeline activity and growth, and milestones of ESI strategic partnership models.

**RESPONSIBILITIES include & not limited to**
- Manage and execute on the Alliances Partner strategy for Inside and Field sales in the assigned regions to deliver against the ESI wide Alliances Sales Plan.
- Lead the APAC alliance team to identify, develop and maintain a strong network of partners and influencers in the assigned regions that will become a key structure to facilitate and support growing sales activity as a result of partner alignment, trust and understanding of ADP's differentiating solutions.
- Align closely with both in-country, regional and global Alliances Partners to ensure our strategies are fully communicated, aligned and executed consistently to drive the very best in results with our partners.
- Work in partnership with the Marketplace team in identifying and facilitating selective regional strategic alliance partners through the Marketplace program.
- Lead and support the execution of marketing and opportunity identification programs and assist in creation of sales messaging deployment both through collateral and the Partner Website.
- Work with Product Sales and Business Consultancy education and coordination of training efforts for our Alliances Partnerships and partner closely with our Business Consultancy organisation
- Create and deploy industry knowledge and expertise within their geographic area of responsibility.
- Report market information of the assigned regions to the sales and alliances leaderships regarding competitors' efforts in the channel, pricing awareness, sales inhibitors, and successes in the field
- Lead and interface between Sales Management and other functional ADP groups (BC, products, operations, marketing, etc.) in the assigned regions.
- Develop and drive ESI strategic alliances partners in sales process with Sales leadership through periodic reviews with focus on: standard and referral activity (inbound/ou