Flexera saves customers billions of dollars in wasted technology spend. A pioneer in Hybrid ITAM and FinOps, Flexera provides award-winning, data-oriented SaaS solutions for technology value optimization (TVO), enabling IT, finance, procurement, and cloud teams to gain deep insights into cost optimization, compliance, and risks for each business service. Flexera One solutions are built on a set of definitive customer, supplier, and industry data, powered by our Technology Intelligence Platform, that enables organizations to visualize their Enterprise Technology Blueprint in hybrid environments—from on-premises to SaaS to containers to cloud.
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Alliance Manager - Italy and Iberia
The Alliance Manager for Italy and Iberia is a senior role responsible for our top strategic Global & European partners. The goal is to generate new business within the region. Working closely with the regional RVP, sales team, management, and other Alliance Managers across Europe, the focus is primarily on new license sales from Flexera’s Enterprise Solutions (mainly ITAM solutions, IT Visibility, and Cloud Cost), along with driving business development and service delivery strategies for selected and other partners in the region.
This position is quota-carrying, with revenue as the final metric. Leads and new opportunities from partner activities are tracked, and commissions are paid on closed business. The role also offers the opportunity to qualify for the annual President’s Club trip.
Responsibilities :
* Develop new relationships with large System Integrators, Consulting Partners, and SAM Service Partners.
* Identify and develop key account alliances and relationship programs to generate sales opportunities.
* Build detailed plans with partner executives to drive strategic engagement, develop partner skills and certifications on Flexera solutions, and execute joint marketing activities.
* Recruit, develop, and manage strategic partner alliances and opportunity pipelines, ensuring retention, growth, and customer success.
* Evaluate program trends and provide analysis and recommendations to management.
* Work towards mutual goals and strategies to build awareness and support for the strategic benefits of the alliance.
* Provide financial analyses, long-range forecasting, and analysis studies related to alliances and partnerships.
* Monitor competitor activity and implement strategies to maintain account ownership and prevent competitor advancement.
* Drive initiatives for joint selling and marketing programs.
* Coordinate partner enablement activities such as training, implementation, and certification to ensure successful solutions delivery.
* Track partner opportunities within Salesforce.com CRM accurately and timely.
* Maintain understanding of pipeline and revenue forecasts involving partner-generated opportunities.
* Create a structured Business Plan focused on attacking this position and achieving business objectives.
* Provide market trend feedback to Product Management for product and pricing improvements.
Required Experience & Skills :
* Fluent in Spanish and Italian, with good knowledge of English.
* Extensive experience in Sales, Alliances, or both, in enterprise software or consulting companies, with strong references.
* Existing partner network at System Integrators, Resellers, and Consultancies in Italy, Spain, and Portugal.
* Experience in strategy development at senior management levels (VP / C-level).
* Proven leadership in creating and managing partner communities.
* Knowledge of high-value technologies such as virtualization, cloud, asset management, ITSM, migration, and security.
* Ability to support business development initiatives.
* Ability to work cooperatively across multiple groups within Flexera.
* Willingness to travel at least 30%.
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