Senior Mgr, Partner Strategy & Ops, Partnerships & Alliances

Thomson Reuters; Frisco (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work policies

Mental Health Days

Tuition reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Thomson Reuters seeks a Senior Manager for Partner Strategy & Operations to expand leadership and execution capacity within Partnerships & Alliances. This role acts as a deputy for the Partner Program and drives partner-facing initiatives, governance, and scalable operating models across multiple functions.

The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, process design, and measurable outcomes across the partner lifecycle, with broad cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in partner operations, programs, or related strategic leadership roles.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives from concept to launch.
• Ability to turn strategy into executable operating models and governance.
• Strong analytical skills with dashboards, KPI design, and executive insights.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement across multiple functions.

Responsibilities

• Operationalize the Partner Program with tracks, tiers, benefits and governance.
• Lead priority partner-facing initiatives from definition to launch and stabilization.
• Set objectives, milestones, ownership, dependencies, and success measures.
• Maintain partner scorecards, KPIs, and drive data-driven recommendations.
• Lead or support tech-enabled improvements involving Salesforce and PRM.

Skills

Partner ops

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional

Data-driven

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Salesforce

PRM / partner portals

Analytics dashboards

Job description

Job Description The Senior Manager, Partner Strategy & Operations (PS&O), Partnerships & Alliances is a strategic operator who expands the leadership and execution capacity of the Partnerships & Alliances team. This role serves as a deputy for the Partner Program, PMO Launch and IPD, providing leadership continuity, independently leading partner-facing initiatives, and reducing key-person dependency across critical priorities.

Job Description The Senior Manager, Partner Strategy & Operations (PS&O), Partnerships & Alliances is a strategic operator who expands the leadership and execution capacity of the Partnerships & Alliances team. This role serves as a deputy for the Partner Program, PMO Launch and IPD, providing leadership continuity, independently leading partner-facing initiatives, and reducing key-person dependency across critical priorities. This position combines partner ecosystem expertise, operational leadership, data-driven decision-making, and technology-enabled solution design. The individual turns strategy into execution by building the operating models, governance, roadmaps, processes, and accountability required to deliver measurable outcomes across the partner lifecycle. The role leads complex initiatives, some of which will be partner facing, from concept through launch, coordinating across Sales, Product, Technology, Finance, Legal, Marketing, Data, and Operations. It also builds scalable mechanisms, systems, reporting, and automation that improve partner experience, increase productivity, and enable the team to respond effectively as business priorities evolve.

Key Responsibilities

Partner Program Operations & Adoption

• Operationalize the Thomson Reuters Partner Program, including tracks, tiers, benefits, scorecards, governance, and partner journeys, and coordinate implementation across Partner Managers and supporting functions.
• Manage the program operating cadence, including participation tracking, tier reviews, governance forums, and partner progression, and support the transition of existing partners into the new framework.
• Develop repeatable processes, communications, playbooks, and enablement materials that drive consistent execution and partner adoption.
• Monitor program participation and effectiveness, turning feedback and performance insights into practical improvements.

Strategic Partner Initiative Delivery

• Independently lead priority partner-facing initiatives from definition through launch, adoption, and stabilization, with integrated delivery plans across Partnerships & Alliances and supporting functions.
• Establish clear objectives, scope, milestones, ownership, dependencies, decision points, and success measures, and engage Partner Managers and selected partners to gather requirements and address adoption barriers.
• Resolve cross-functional issues, elevate material decisions with clear options and recommendations, and provide executive-ready updates on progress, risks, trade-offs, and required actions.

Partner Launch PMO & Governance

• Operate a consistent intake, assessment, and prioritization process for complex partner-facing launches, with integrated launch plans, stage gates, readiness criteria, and post-launch activities.
• Coordinate cross-functional launch readiness and maintain portfolio-level visibility, using existing Thomson Reuters project-management mechanisms and governance forums rather than duplicative tracking.
• Establish repeatable launch standards, templates, and accountability mechanisms, and facilitate launch reviews and lessons learned.

Partner Performance & Decision Support

• Maintain partner scorecards, program KPIs, and recurring review mechanisms, and analyze activity, engagement, pipeline, revenue, adoption, and participation to identify trends and exceptions.
• Translate data into clear recommendations on partner progression, intervention, investment, and enablement, and prepare decision-ready materials with insights, options, trade-offs, and recommended actions.
• Partner with Revenue Operations, Finance, Data, Sales Operations, and Technology to improve data quality, attribution, and reporting, and reduce manual analysis through repeatable processes.

Scalable Partner Operations & Continuous Improvement

• Identify partner processes to standardize, simplify, redesign, or automate, and translate business needs into requirements, workflows, user stories, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans.
• Lead or support technology-enabled improvements involving Salesforce, PRM, partner portals, workflow automation, analytics, and AI-enabled processes, including validation, testing, training, and deployment.
• Set measurable outcomes for improvements, such as reduced cycle time, manual effort, and operational risk, and document procedures, decision rules, and controls to reduce key-person dependency.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in partner operations, partner programs, business operations, strategic program leadership, solution design, business analysis, process improvement, or technology-enabled transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to act as a trusted deputy or senior operator, providing leadership continuity and independently driving high-priority work.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept and business case through
• implementation, launch, adoption, and continuous improvement.Strong understanding of partner, alliance, channel, or ecosystem programs and the end-to-end partner
• lifecycle.
• Experience designing operating models, governance, roadmaps, processes, decision frameworks, and accountability mechanisms.
• Strong analytical capabilities, including experience with dashboards, scorecards, forecasting, performance reporting, KPI design, and executive insights.
• Ability to turn incomplete or ambiguous inputs into clear recommendations, structured plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience gathering and refining business requirements and translating operational needs into scalable processes, workflows, data products, and technology solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and coordinate across Partnerships & Alliances, Sales, Product, Technology, Finance, Legal, Marketing, Data, and Operations.
• Experience developing executive-level presentations, business updates, decision materials, operational reporting, and stakeholder communications.
• Strong organizational and portfolio-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, dependencies, and deadlines in a fast-changing environment.
• Experience with CRM, PRM, partner portals, workflow automation, reporting, analytics, integrations, and digital partner experiences.
• Working knowledge of Salesforce, Experience Cloud, Partner Cloud or other PRM platforms, reporting tools, automation technologies, and partner-facing systems.
• Excellent communication, relationship management, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the confidence to influence outcomes across business and technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field

What’s in it For You?

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $119,700 USD - $222,300 USD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

This job posting will close 12/05/2026.

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