National Partner Manager - WWT

Our Company

We're Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world's innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers - from banks to theme parks - can focus on achieving the incredible with data.

If you've seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you've seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate - and wow their customers. Right now, we're laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We're looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team - and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

The Role

The National Partner Manager is responsible for establishing business alliances and partnerships within a key National Reseller Partner account. As the local execution lead for the Americas, the NPM ensures the identification, retention, growth and customer satisfaction of strategic business, working in sync with all three Hitachi Business Segments - Platinum / Enterprise / Commercial. The NPM maintains a highly interactive relationship within the key Americas regions to achieve ongoing initiatives. The NPM works with internal departments on contracts, marketing plans, sales and technical enablement, interaction between named partner and Hitachi sales teams, as well as PO tracking and execution.

The NPM is accountable for achieving revenue and margin objectives within the account. They provide support with the Americas leadership and coordinate all operational aspects of the assigned National Partner which includes tactical and strategic planning, leadership relationship development and operational oversight with laser focus on driving revenue. Facilitation and coordination with other National and Global Leads, managing of programs and joint selling with other geo-based teams responsible for the assigned partner(s) that continually seeks to improve its performance, and drive America's revenue.

What You Will Be Doing

• Develop a business strategy which covers short, medium, and long-term durations. The strategy will include : prioritizing strategic solutions for key industry business verticals, building a go to solution strategy, driving / managing field engagement with the partner teams, aligning top executives and managing an active pipeline necessary to exceed assigned quota.
• Establish medium and long-term business objectives including investment plans and company-level strategy shifts required to significantly grow the Partner and Hitachi Vantara's (HV) business.
• Passionately own / manage assignment of all primary executive relationships as part of the broader strategic direction.
• Spend 80% of available time in the pursuit of opportunities by having daily contact with assigned accounts
• Establish solid relationships at all levels within the assigned accounts and direct account related activities to ultimately achieve better account control than the competition. Provide quarterly QBR's with assigned executive sponsors from HV and the Partner executives
• Lead the development of a strategic plan, in collaboration with HV Sales Teams, to advance the company's mission and objectives and to promote revenue, profitability, and growth for the partner.
• Create and maintain a high priority pipeline and forecast that tracks strategic and tactical revenue opportunities. On a periodic and formal basis, reports financial results and business initiative progress to the sales and Channel leadership team.
• Evangelize and engage with HV Field Sales to educate on Named Partner Capabilities and promote the engagement across sales teams.
• Building a strategy for the overall business that includes both CAPEX and OPEX (consumption) sales models.
• Drive a plan to achieve assigned quota by defining necessary activities, key relationships, and strategic solutions to exceed sales targets.

What You Will Bring To The Team

As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected base salary for this position is : $150K to $185K

The expected on-target earnings for this position is : $235K to $270K

The expected pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area. Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi Vantara's bonus / variable / commission pay programs, where applicable, and are subject to the program's conditions and restrictions.

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Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.