Partner Marketing Manager

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Think outside the box to drive great opportunities for our partner and their customers.
• Plan, develop and drive integrated marketing campaigns with strategic and high growth partners.
• Cultivate and grow relationships with marketing teams at partner sites and be the point of contact for strategic partners' marketing engagement.
• Act as partner evangelist focused on influencing the value delivered to Splunk and its customers through partners.
• Lead MDF budget tracking and utilization in partnership with the field marketing and partner managers to ensure alignment with business priorities.
• Provide a monthly roll-up of key metrics, ROI and program effectiveness of strategic partner campaigns to determine return on investment and prioritize resources.
• Continuously evaluate program performance and results to enhance strategies.
• Work with demand generation teams to engage partners in demand generating activities and ensure compelling digital marketing materials are available to the ecosystem.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in partner marketing and communication.
• Experience and expertise in working with strategic and high growth partners.
• Strong skills in marketing strategy and ability to drive creation and execution of programs in a highly fast paced environment.
• Ability to envision, lead and execute on multi-dimensional partner marketing plans with grit and a growth mindset.
• Confidence in a dynamic, high-pressure and high-visibility role.
• Experience in planning, measuring and adjusting GTM tactics to deliver desired business impact, including geo variances.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal), reporting and presentation skills.
• Experience engaging with partners and colleagues in an international workspace.
• Ability to influence, motivate and work in a highly cross-functional matrix environment.
• Understanding of a broad range of marketing activities, including field marketing, digital marketing and experience events.
• Highly motivated, self-starter who can build and launch programs within budget and handle multiple, concurrent timelines.

Nice to Have

• Experience with digital marketing and event management.
• Knowledge of demand generation activities and tools.
• Experience working in a global or multi-regional environment.

Qualifications

• Formal educational background not explicitly specified, but extensive experience in partner marketing is required.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary range of $105,000 - $158,000 plus potential bonuses.
• Quality medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution.
• Short and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance and wellbeing offerings.
• Up to twelve paid holidays per year, including a floating holiday and birthday off.
• Vacation time accrual and flexible time off policies.
• Paid sick time off and additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.
• Performance-based incentive pay for sales roles, with detailed incentive structure.