Vice President, Partner Sales APJ

Saviynt
Singapore
On-site

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for enterprise sales leaders with partner-building experience who can manage geographically dispersed teams and drive analytics-driven strategies.

Best fit for

  • Enterprise sales leaders with 15+ years of experience in building and scaling partner organizations
    — “Minimum 15 years of Enterprise Sales experience with a compelling and verifiable track record of success managing and building/scaling a critical partner organization.”
  • Candidates with proven ability to lead and coach APJ-based teams across multiple geographies
    — “Manage a team across multiple geographies including team structure, hiring, performance assessment, coaching and feedback, team succession planning, and training.”
  • Individuals with strong analytical skills and a track record of using data to optimize partner sales processes
    — “Process-driven with the ability to use a quantitative approach to apply business insights to partner sales.”

Things to consider

  • This role requires a high level of international travel across APJ territories.
    — “Willingness and ability to travel, both domestically and internationally.”
  • Candidates must be prepared to manage complex partner alliances and commercial negotiations.
    — “Experience negotiating complex commercial deals, including services, reseller, and co-sell agreements.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in developing and executing partner plans with measurable outcomes.
    — “Create and execute short- and long-term partner plans, including strategies, programs, goals, quotas, tracking mechanisms, and analytics.”
  • Emphasize leadership in building world-class partner teams with repeatable methodologies.
    — “Proven success in building a world-class sales team with proven, repeatable methodologies.”
  • Showcase ability to act as a bridge between sales, marketing, and customer success teams.
    — “Ability to lead and serve in a hands-on capacity on projects as well as serve as the connective tissue between Revenue Org, marketing, and customer success.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Mid Level

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • successful partner alliances
  • revenue growth
Typical background
enterprise salespartner management

Skills & requirements

Required

Partner SalesSales StrategyTeam ManagementPartner AlignmentLead Generation

Preferred

International SalesEnterprise Software

Stack & domain

Enterprise SalesPartner OrganizationSalesMarketingEnablementProduct OrganizationsPartner LandscapeLead GenerationLeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingTeamworkPartnershipsEnterpriseAPJ

About the role

Original posting from Saviynt via Lever

Saviynt's AI-powered identity platform manages and governs human and non-human access to all of an organization's applications, data, and business processes. Customers trust Saviynt to safeguard their digital assets, drive operational efficiency, and reduce compliance costs. Built for the AI age, Saviynt is today helping organizations safely accelerate their deployment and usage of AI. Saviynt is recognized as the leader in identity security, with solutions that protect and empower the world’s leading brands, Fortune 500 companies and government institutions. For more information, please visit www.saviynt.com.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

  • Lead the APJ Partner organization to drive growth with identified top-tier partner alliances. This will include the nurturing and development of new alliance partners into the core network.
  • Lead by the numbers in a purposeful way. Assess and improve upon current engagement processes, methodologies, structure, and associated discipline.
  • Create and execute short- and long-term partner plans, including strategies, programs, goals, quotas, tracking mechanisms, and analytics. The ultimate goal is to build a highly metric-driven and predictable team.
  • Propose & implement necessary adjustments to optimize performance and build/refine the infrastructure to facilitate ambitious & exciting growth.
  • Manage a team across multiple geographies including team structure, hiring, performance assessment, coaching and feedback, team succession planning, and training.
  • Work closely with Executive Leaders, Sales, Marketing, Enablement and the Product Organizations to create a strong and collaborative partnership that will ensure success in competitive positioning, market awareness, and execution.
  • Assess and improve upon current engagement processes, methodologies, structure, and associated discipline. Create and execute short and long-term partner plans, including strategies, programs, goals, quotas, tracking mechanisms, and analytics.
  • Drive partner director alignment in the regional APJ sales teams.  Participate in the sales opportunity reviews and reach out and collaborate with the Partner Directors, Regional Sales VPs and Account Executives.
  • Use experience and creativity to create, analyze and execute lead-generation programs across all partner types.

WHAT YOU BRING:

  • Minimum 15 years of Enterprise Sales experience with a compelling and verifiable track record of success managing and building/scaling a critical partner organization. Previous experience as SVP, GM, or VP for a high-growth enterprise SaaS software company.
  • Highly instrumented and analytic executive for the enterprise in multiple verticals.
  • Process-driven with the ability to use a quantitative approach to apply business insights to partner sales.
  • A dynamic executive with the ability to strategically build innovative models combined with the tactical ability to execute. Has seen a growth journey but has the ability to scale down. A strong leader & motivator with proven success in building a world-class sales team with proven, repeatable methodologies.
  • Ability to lead and serve in a hands-on capacity on projects as well as serve as the connective tissue between Revenue Org, marketing, and customer success.
  • Strong knowledge of the partner landscape by region/country with special emphasis on Japan, ASEAN, and India.
  • Exceptional interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
  • Willingness and ability to travel, both domestically and internationally.
  • Inspirational leadership, strong executive presence.  Successful leadership track record in overachieving business goals and quota attainment success.
  • Ability to envision, develop, document and execute partner plans through a geographically dispersed partner and sales team. Demonstrated ability to build, lead and coach an APJ partner sales team.
  • Experience negotiating complex commercial deals, including services, reseller, and co-sell agreements.
  • The ability to collect information and identify fundamental patterns/trends in data. This includes the ability to gather, integrate, and interpret information from several sources.
  • The ability to build trusting, collaborative relationships and rapport with different types of people and businesses. This includes delivering on commitments and maintaining confidential information, as well as being approachable, showing interest in the other person, and relating well to people regardless of personality or background.
  • Ability to assess the current network of Partners and evaluate net-new relationships, make recommendations and execute against those recommendations.

If required for this role, you will:

  • Complete security & privacy literacy and awareness training during onboarding and annually thereafter
  • Review (initially and annually thereafter), understand, and adhere to Information Security/Privacy Policies and Procedures such as (but not limited to):

> Data Classification, Retention & Handling Policy

> Incident Response Policy/Procedures

> Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Policy/Procedures

> Mobile Device Policy

> Account Management Policy

> Access Control Policy

> Personnel Security Policy

> Privacy Policy

Saviynt is an amazing place to work. We are a high-growth, Platform as a Service company focused on Identity Authority to power and protect the world at work. You will experience tremendous growth and learning opportunities through challenging yet rewarding work which directly impacts our customers, all within a welcoming and positive work environment. If you're resilient and enjoy working in a dynamic environment you belong with us!

Saviynt is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome everyone to our team.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Source: Saviynt careers (Lever)

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