Partner Manager
JOB DESCRIPTION
Own Every Moment at NetApp
At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.
Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.
Partner Manager
Singapore, SingaporeJob Summary
The Partner Manager will be responsible for the country’s channel strategy in engaging, motivating and growing our partners’ business in NetApp. They will be driving sales of NetApp's products and services, meeting sales goals, and promoting a preference for NetApp among partners through effective strategy and execution.
Job Description
- Develop and maintain a multi-year sales strategy and business plan and tracking the success of selected Partners and the distributors.
- Designing plans and tracking activities with distributors to build pipeline generation plans to maintain consistent revenue every quarter.
- Manage the executive engagement between the partner and corresponding parts of the NetApp sales organization
- Plan, execute and track tactical activities to support bookings and pipeline generation
- Drive and support Partner to develop services practices and specializations
- Influence Partner preference towards NetApp and increases penetration and Share of Wallet
- Orchestrates enablement of Partner sales and technical teams in line with Program requirements and Solutions GTM
- Plans and manages Incentive Headcount resources
- Help Partners get the right readiness to drive solution and services sales
- Activate and run company initiatives and programs at Partners
- Drive Partner forecast accuracy and overall health
- Implement continues Installed Base expansion and retention strategies and tactics
- Collaborate with Partner’s and NetApp Commercial team (CTR/CAM) to develop Partner Driven Commercial business
- Collaborate with enterprise account teams and Partner to create and execute pursuits
Education
- A minimum of 10 years of experience working with Channel, Alliance, or ISV partners, along with a solid understanding of storage and infrastructure.
- Ability to effectively interface and communicate at many levels within Partner companies' organization
- Aptitude to negotiate and resolve complex situations/opportunities to a positive outcome while managing conflicts to maintain ecosystem of internal or external relationships
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Tactical skills to builds a network outside to support business needs
- Good understanding of and network within the industry ecosystem (Partners, competition etc.)
- Good knowledge of Cloud technologies and business models
At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.
Why You'll Thrive at NetApp
At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.
NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.
Our culture
We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.
If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.
Submitting an Application
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AI Disclosure
For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.