Sr Partner Development Manager

Key job responsibilities
Strategic Partner Management
• Own and manage a portfolio of managed consulting partners, serving as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor across all aspects of the partner relationship
• Develop and execute comprehensive Partner Business Plans (PBPs) that align partner capabilities with market opportunities, translating strategy into measurable business outcomes with clear accountability
• Build and maintain senior-level relationships with partner leadership, orchestrating executive engagement, quarterly business reviews, and multi-year strategic planning
• Independently assess portfolio health, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and make sound prioritization decisions with limited oversight
• Identify and develop opportunities to expand partner depth across target verticals, segments, and workload areas within the Canada region
Pipeline Generation & Co-Sell Execution
• Drive proactive pipeline generation as the top priority — originating, qualifying, and advancing Amazon-Originated (AO) and Partner-Originated (PO) opportunities through the ACE co-sell motion
• Maintain rigorous pipeline hygiene across all managed partners, ensuring timely opportunity updates, accurate stage progression, and clear next steps in AWSentral
• Coordinate with internal field sales teams to ensure seamless partner collaboration on customer opportunities and drive joint outcomes
• Coach partners on co-sell best practices, advancing their motion from reactive deal registration to proactive, seller-initiated pipeline creation at scale
Go-To-Market Development
• Design and execute Joint Go-To-Market (JGTM) strategies with partners — including solution positioning, demand generation, and field alignment — with the judgment to prioritize investments that drive the highest customer and business impact
• Enable partners to develop industry-specific and workload-specific solutions addressing customer needs in key verticals and segments
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to senior partner stakeholders, helping shape their AWS practice direction, investment priorities, and growth trajectory
Partner Capability Development
• Assess partner capabilities and develop multi-quarter roadmaps to build competencies in priority workloads and AWS service areas, including Migration, Modernization, GenAI, and industry solutions
• Support partners in achieving relevant AWS competencies, certifications, and program milestones that unlock go-to-market resources and funding
• Manage partner funding and MDF investments with a high bar for ROI, ensuring alignment with joint business objectives and AWS program requirements
Business Planning & Execution
• Develop annual and quarterly business plans with quantifiable goals for pipeline generation, launched ARR, co-sell activity, and customer outcomes
• Conduct regular pipeline and business reviews using consistent, data-driven frameworks — and proactively raise findings and recommendations to leadership
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (sales, marketing, solutions architecture, professional services) to coordinate partner success motions and resolve blockers at the appropriate level

Basic Qualifications
– 6+ years of Go-To-Market, Business Development, Sales, or Consulting experience
– 5+ years of working with Enterprise Application Modernization and Migration technologies, including, but not limited to, Mainframe, Serverless, Containers, or Cloud Operations experience
– 2+ years of working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage experience
– Experience explaining complex technical concepts to various business and technical audiences
– Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
– Experience presenting to both technical and non-technical executive audiences
– Experience developing, leading, negotiating and executing corporate and/or business transactions
– Bachelor’s degree

Preferred Qualifications
– Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations across leadership and cross-functional teams
– Experience leading complex, multi-year initiatives that may be cross-functional and/or span business and technology
– MBA