Senior Partner Sales Manager - Global System Integrator (GSI)

Canonical Ltd.

Johannesburg

Remote

ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000

Full time

47 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus/commission

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Maternity/Paternity leave

Wellness & EAP program

Travel opportunities

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Job summary

Canonical Ltd. in Johannesburg is seeking a Senior Partner Sales Manager to drive Ubuntu-based solutions with Global System Integrators and to lead partner-driven initiatives across sales orgs globally.

You will build trusted relationships with partners, run workshops, and engage from engineers to CxO level. This role requires extensive alliance or indirect sales experience, deep cloud tech knowledge, and a hands-on, high-performance mindset.

Qualifications

Extensive experience in alliance or indirect sales management roles.
Extensive experience with OpenStack, virtualization, containers and other Cloud technologies.
Autonomous, disciplined, hands-on, get-it-done mentality.
Ability to capture customer requirements, evaluate gaps, identify and create opportunities.
Passionate about Ubuntu products and mission.
Comfortable in fast-paced and high pressure environments with ambitious achievement goals.
Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

Build strategic relationships with partners at levels, and stickiness with Ubuntu technology.
Deep understanding of Linux and cloud software ecosystem, and open source selling models.
Negotiate contracts and commercial business terms.
Deep understanding of partner organizations and sales models, in particular with Global System Integrators.
Work closely with marketing, sales engineering and product management to deliver on targets, objectives and provide a voice of the partner.
Lead executive interlocks between partners and Canonical leadership team.
Ability to travel - sometimes internationally - up to 40% of the time.

Skills

Alliance sales management

Indirect sales

OpenStack

Virtualization

Containers

Cloud technologies

Self-starter

Requirements gathering

Ubuntu

Communication

Presentation skills

Job description

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

Global System Integrators (GSI) play a crucial role in Canonical growth plans in the coming 3 years. We are hiring a Senior Partner Sales Manager to work closely with Canonical GSI partners throughout their sales cycles and across their sales organizations to facilitate Ubuntu based solutions and opportunities, as well as help GSI build long term digital transformation platforms with Ubuntu stacks and services.

Working the the Partner Sales Director in their geographic region, the Senior Partner Sales Manager will be responsible for building trusted relationships with partners, increasing Canonical market share and attach rate, evangelizing about the partnership and leading all business interactions from engineers to CxO level. They will often run customer workshops focused on particular initiatives at that customer, attend sales events, give public presentations and participate in executive engagements as coordinated by the Senior Director.

The role entails

Build strategic relationships with partners at levels, and stickiness with Ubuntu technology
Deep understanding of Linux and cloud software ecosystem, and open source selling models
Negotiate contracts and commercial business terms
Deep understanding of partner organizations and sales models, in particular with Global System Integrators
Work closely with marketing, sales engineering and product management to deliver on targets, objectives and provide a voice of the partner
Lead executive interlocks between partners and Canonical leadership team
Ability to travel - sometimes internationally - up to 40% of the time

What We Are Looking For In You

Extensive experience in alliance or indirect sales management roles
Extensive experience with OpenStack, virtualization, containers and other Cloud technologies.
Autonomous, disciplined, hands-on, get-it-done mentality
Ability to capture customer requirements, evaluate gaps, identify and create opportunities
Passionate about Ubuntu products and mission
Comfortable in fast-paced and high pressure environments with ambitious achievement goals
Excellent communication and presentation skills

What We Offer Colleagues

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.