The Regional Partner Director owns TCS' partner-led growth agenda across the region, driving revenue growth, market expansion, and technology adoption through strategic alliances spanning Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Data & Analytics, and Cloud & AI. This role serves as the primary interface between TCS leadership, sales, practices, delivery teams, and partner/customer stakeholders, building executive relationships, shaping joint go-to-market programs, and driving alliance performance across the partner portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
1. Partner Strategy & Business Growth
- Develop and execute regional partner strategies and business plans aligned with TCS goals.
- Identify, recruit, and onboard strategic and boutique partners, while pursuing new revenue opportunities across existing accounts and new logos.
- Build account penetration plans for priority industry verticals and analyze market trends to continuously refine strategy.
2. Relationship & Alliance Management
- Serve as the primary point of contact for high-value regional partners, managing executive engagement across sales, marketing, practices, and delivery teams.
- Build strong relationships with TCS account leadership, industry units, COEs, and solution teams.
- Conduct regular governance reviews, QBRs, and business/performance reviews, acting as a trusted advisor on alliance strategy.
- Lead joint GTM initiatives, partner-led campaigns, executive workshops, and industry events to drive adoption across Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Data & Analytics, and Cloud & AI.
- Collaborate with account teams to identify, qualify, and pursue strategic opportunities, while supporting bids, case studies, references, and pricing negotiations.
- Drive Resell and Managed Services sales motions.
- Develop regional demand generation plans to accelerate pipeline creation and conversion.
4. Revenue & Performance Management
- Own regional partner revenue targets and KPIs (both proactive and RFP-based), monitor performance, and optimize engagement strategies.
- Collaborate with sales teams to build pipeline and close deals, while measuring the ROI of GTM investments.
- Provide regular executive reporting and business insights to leadership.
5. Cross-Functional & Executive Engagement
- Work closely with sales, marketing, product, practices, COEs, and customer success teams to align partner programs with internal initiatives.
- Engage TCS Technology and Business Leaders, Infrastructure and Cloud leaders, relevant unit leaders, and Procurement teams to position partner-led transformation initiatives within the end-customer sales cycle.
- Develop executive value propositions focused on performance, sustainability, modernization, and TCO reduction.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Technology, Marketing, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in alliances, partner management, business development, or technology sales.
- Proven ability to build and scale strategic technology partnerships.
- Strong understanding of AI, Cloud, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Enterprise IT.
- Experience working with hyperscalers such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud is a plus.
- Executive presence with excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills.
- Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and data-driven decision-making abilities.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Experience working within large technology organizations or global system integrators.
- Business-fluent Swedish and English (written and spoken) are required.
- Willingness to travel regionally as required.
- Comfortable collaborating across global teams.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Customer wins and business impact delivered through the partner ecosystem.
- Partner-influenced revenue and pipeline growth.
- Strategic account penetration and market expansion.
- GTM effectiveness and demand generation outcomes.
- Partner executive engagement, partner satisfaction, certifications, and alliance maturity.
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