Core Partner Development Manager - UKI

As a Core Partner Development Manager (PDM), you will lead and manage partnerships with leading marketing agencies, consultants and systems integrators. The PDM is the pivotal role in the relationships that HubSpot builds with partner companies. They are responsible for engaging at the executive level to build trust by sharing insights about how companies can capitalize on market opportunities by partnering with HubSpot. PDMs lead the building of joint business plans, the defining of a partners’ solutions portfolio, advising on Go-To-Market, sales and marketing strategies, and driving implementation of all aspects of the strategy by orchestrating relationships between the partners sales, marketing and technical teams and HubSpot’s to ensure excellence in execution of the strategy, achieving partnership growth goals and sales targets. 

In this role, you will establish and grow the business and technical relationships, managing the weekly interactions with these partners. You will be responsible for driving top line revenue growth and overall end customer adoption across all market segments.  You will possess a business background that enables you to engage at the CXO level and ideally a sales background that enables you to easily interact and guide conversations with sales reps. Ideal candidates will demonstrate the ability to think strategically about business, marketing, product, and technical challenges and build and convey compelling value propositions around the value of HubSpot's partner program and software solutions.

In this role, you’ll get to:

• Manage 20-50 partner relationships and build a sales pipeline by working with your partners to exceed sales goals
• Develop a trusted-advisor relationship with partners to establish strategic alignment and drive growth
• Understand and align partners' priorities, strategies, and goals with HubSpot’s to build mutually beneficial action plans
• Work with the executive, marketing and sales teams on the execution of partner programs, events, sales engagement, building playbooks and collateral to enable partners to sell and serve customers effectively
• Develop and drive business and technical enablement plans with partners to facilitate the implementation and operations of HubSpot products
• Promote top partners to HubSpot customers and sellers
• Drive promotions, contests and incentives as appropriate 
• Gather, organize, and report back partner feedback (both technical and business) to help improve the customer and partner experience 
• Be the partner evangelist within the HubSpot sales organization
• Work with marketing and technology departments to execute sales strategy as the firm introduces enhancements to existing solutions and/or releases new products
• Bring your thinking, strategies, and ideas to advance our company’s values, unique culture, and vision for the future

We are looking for someone who:

• Has 3+ years of experience in sales, partner channel development, business development, or alliance management in the technology industry 
• 5+ years of experience with technology platforms and solutions with a reasonable level of technical proficiency
• Ideally has experience in the software (SaaS) industry and therefore has a deep understanding of SaaS go-to-market models
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort
• Ability to proactively identify areas in the partner development strategy that require strengthening (i.e. models, processes and tools)
• Ability to identify required resources and gather requirements, drive a sense of common purpose and shared goals/vision, and deliver results as an outcome of ongoing or time-bound work
• Thrives in a fast-paced working environment, can work autonomously and pivot quickly to changing business needs 
• Can take an ambiguous problem, make sense of it, and propose a path forward.
• Cares deeply about customer-centricity and HubSpot’s mission of helping millions of organizations grow better