Partnership Director - UK

Insider; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI-native marketing platform in London seeks a Partnership Director to manage commercial relationships with channel partners. This role involves improving partnership practices and collaborating across teams to drive growth. The ideal candidate has over 10 years in partner sales with expertise in B2B SaaS. The position offers a supportive culture, medical coverage, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Benefits

Healthy lunches and snacks

Team events and drinks

Private medical care

Limitless networking opportunities

Training and development access

Inclusive and diverse workplace

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in partner sales and business development.
• Experience in managing relationships with digital agencies and consultancies.
• Demonstrated success managing executive relationships with channel partners.

Responsibilities

• Improve partnership practices and grow the portfolio of partners.
• Manage pipeline and generate leads for global offices.
• Collaborate to grow Channels at Insider.

Skills

Partner sales experience

B2B SaaS knowledge

Project management skills

Analytical skills

Education

BS/BA degree

Tools

Customer-facing content creation

Job description

Overview

Before jumping in on all the information about the role and what you can bring to the table, let us introduce ourselves real quick.

About us

We are Insider, a B2B SaaS company that drives growth for its clients around the world. How are we achieving this? We are the #1 AI-native platform for Customer Experience and Marketing—offers marketers a single platform to deliver unique experiences per person, drive profitable growth, and unleash peak productivity and efficiency. Our platform connects data across channels, predicts future behavior with AI, and individualizes experiences from a single platform.

We have just celebrated our $500M Series E funding round, led by General Atlantic. Before this, we’ve unlocked unicorn status following our Series D round. We are backed by top-notch investors, including Sequoia Capital, QIA, Riverwood, and Endeavor Catalyst, and trusted by 1200+ brands from high-growth startups to the most prestigious Fortune 500 companies such as Samsung, Coca-Cola, Nike, L’Oreal, Singapore Airlines, Virgin, Nestle, Nissan, Lenovo, Puma, IKEA, Allianz, Dominos, CNN, and the list goes on.

Having unlocked unicorn status, Insider was congratulated for becoming one of the only woman-founded, women-ledB2B SaaS unicorns in the world, to achieve $200M in CARR (Committed Annual Recurring Revenue). Insider was named a leader in The Forrester Wave for Cross-Channel Campaign Management 2021, and Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Omnichannel Marketing Platforms for B2C Enterprises 2023 Assessment. The company has been recognized in The Top 1% of all software companies worldwide in G2’s 2024 Software Awards, and named in The Top 10 Best Software Products with the most #1 rankings alongside other software legends like Google, Zoom, and Monday.com. According to G2’s Spring’24 reports. Insider is also the #1 G2 Leader in 6+ categories, including Customer Data Platforms (CDP), Personalization Engines, Personalization Software, Mobile Marketing, Customer Journey Analytics, and e-commerce Personalization.

When our team founded Insider, they not only sought to create a product company but also to build the most socially progressive technology community in the world. Through our corporate social responsibility initiatives like 100Projects SheCodes, SheLeads, and SheMarkables, our community has committed to scaling its impact into our communities across 27+ countries, spearheading transformative projects in areas such as health, education, farming, animal rights, and increasing the proportional representation of women in STEM careers.

Behind all these achievements, there is an exceptionally talented and passionate team across 27+ countries that moves fast and agile, creates cutting-edge products, and focuses on making an impact. If you want to join us on this journey, just keep reading.

The Role

The Partnership Director will drive Insider’s growth through supporting formation and management of mutually beneficial commercial relationships with Insider’s channel partners.

You will work cross-functionally across marketing, sales and customer success teams, to help in the execution of go-to-market strategies and programs to drive selection, onboarding and enablement, and driving business through and with channel partners in your region. This role requires a thorough understanding of Insider’s product capabilities, sales processes and partner ecosystem to ensure our go-to-market engine is primed and enabled to collaborate with strategic partners and drive mutual growth.

Responsibilities are categorized into three broad categories: Selection, Onboarding and Transacting with the Partners.

The ideal candidate enjoys new challenges that test their organizational, interpersonal, and leadership skills. They flourish in a team environment and work enthusiastically with colleagues outside the immediate team to achieve organizational goals.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Work with Insider global offices to continually improve their partnership practice, grow their portfolio of partners, create go-to-market plans, drive expansion opportunities, and manage and grow the partnership.
• Manage your pipeline and generate leads for Insider global offices and for the Insider Partner Network
• Develop success plans to ensure agency-wide adoption and expansion of Insider to the channel partners' clients
• Collaborate with internal teams to grow Channels for Insider: Sales, Marketing, and Partner Success Team.
• Negotiate partnership terms and present Insider Partner Program

Job Requirements

• BS/BA degree required
• 10+ years of experience in partner sales and business development
• Experience with B2B SaaS (Software as a Service) business model
• Experience in working for a SaaS company (marketing technology space preferred) and managing relationships with digital agencies, consultancies and system integrators
• Demonstrated success managing executive relationships with channel partners (both agencies and ISVs)
• Ability to set clear targets with channel partners and develop plans and objectives to achieve those targets
• Ability to work cross-functionally with both large and smaller channel partners
• High analytical skills and ability to quickly understand complex issues and develop/apply simplifying frameworks to facilitate broader organizational understanding, decision-making and action.
• Output oriented with very strong ability to personally create high quality, customer-facing content including presentations and datasheets
• Excellent project management skills; able to effectively manage multiple ongoing projects to meet deadlines

What we offer

• Mens sana in corpore sano! You’ll enjoy delicious and healthy occasional lunches, and afternoon snacks. Plus coffee and tea handy!
• We are all about our culture & building relationships! Expect a weekly team event / drinks with Insiders :)
• Vitality - covering for your private medical care.
• a chance to work in an international, diverse, and inclusive environment,
• access and opportunity to gain a limitless network all over the globe,
• a chance to become a Shareowner with the "Shareowner System" that we offer to all Insiders who meet certain criteria,
• to be part of an industry that’s shaping the future of customer experience
• access to many hard and soft skills pieces of training to help you improve and challenge yourself,
• access to 16,000+ online courses taught by real-world professionals on the LinkedIn Learning platform to satisfy your hunger for knowledge.
• space to share your skills through training sessions and workshops if you wish. Sharing is caring!
• the infamous team activities that are bursting with fun,
• no Dress Code!

Was this position made for you?

So let’s talk! We’re curious bugs and can’t wait to get to know you.

We provide equal opportunity in a zero-discrimination workplace and not just welcome but also embrace everyone without regard to sex, race, color, nationality, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, citizenship, or marital status.

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