Senior Strategic Alliances Manager

We’re looking for a Senior Strategic Alliances Manager to be responsible for driving the full lifecycle for a book of Hootsuite’s strategic partnerships. This includes sourcing, negotiating, managing and expanding a book of Hootsuite’s most strategic partnerships that accelerate Hootsuite’s growth agenda, including Social Networks and large software Partnerships. This is a dynamic role where you will hunt (business development) and nurture (relationship management) a book of strategic partnerships. This role is open to applicants located in Canada or the USA. In this role, you will report to the Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships & Business Development.

• Establish, grow and nurture relationships across the organization at the partner manager level for named partners; maintain and expand official partnership badges, status and relationships with strategic partners
• Build, strategize, execute joint business plans (JPB) for named partners. This includes alignment on company objectives and analysis on the assessed costs, potential revenue, and other benefits that help support Hootsuite OKRs and growth agenda
• Establish joint value propositions and identify channel opportunities and new revenue streams. Specifically sourcing, managing and negotiating any revenue generating initiatives and commercial agreements between Hootsuite and your named partners.
• Drive customer facing alignment with strategic partners, including co-marketing, MDF, PR and thought leadership opportunities.
• Drive and execute company- wide strategic initiatives and partnership programs, working closely with cross functional teams (product, legal, marketing, sales etc) to communicate the impact of Hootsuite’s strategic partnerships
• Be the subject matter expert on all things related to your named strategic partners and be an internal champion, staying up to date on the latest social media and digital marketing industry trends

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• Extensive relevant experience in a mix of sales, channel or partnerships, venture capital, consulting  or corporate/ business development roles
• A proven history of recruiting and motivating partners with industry leading technologies.
• Expertise in building and managing strategic strong relationships, with both external stakeholders and internal stakeholders  
• Ability to influence management and Hootsuite Leadership Team decisions and gain buy-in from key stakeholders on your partner strategy
• Commitment to Results: consistently achieves results, demonstrating high performance, and challenging self and others to deliver results
• Negotiation: successfully obtains commitment to a solution or idea, while maintaining integrity and relationships
• Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects
• Perseverance: pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish—doesn’t give up
• Willingness to travel on occasion to attend industry events, and onsite with Partners for QBRs

WHO YOU ARE:

• Tenacious. You are determined to succeed, and you are motivated by the success of customers, colleagues and the community.
• Curious. You are always learning and seeking ways to make things better.
• Conscientious. You keep your promises, taking your commitments to others seriously, and you have strong integrity.
• Humble. You lead with humility and empathy, respecting and learning from the perspectives of others.

In all we do, our six guiding principles light the way:

Step Up: Show the world what it looks like to live and work by these guiding principles. #StepUp

One Team: Make Hootsuite a place where everyone feels safe, welcome, valued, and empowered to do their best  work without compromising who they are. #OneTeam #FreeToBeMe

Customer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed. #CustomerObsessed

Go Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity. #GoFastBeAgile

Play to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders. #PlayToWin #NoExcuses

Neighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally. #SocialForGood #Allies

Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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