Partner Manager - MENA
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About Elastic
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
What is The Role
We are looking for a highly motivated Partner Manager to join our partner organisation to execute the channel strategy across the Middle East and North African market. This role is responsible for supporting Elastic’s efforts to build and maintain an elite ecosystem of partners who are highly strategic to the company’s long-term goals. The Partner Manager will recruit, enable, and support a network of partners in order to drive partner sourced, influenced, and fulfilled revenue. We need someone who has the ability to enable established channel organisations, drive campaigns with these partners, act as a conduit between Elastic and Partner sales teams and be the SME for everything Elastic. We need a highly motivated, assertive, execution focused individual who can establish and deliver a best in class channel ecosystem.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Identifying, recruiting, enabling and managing key channel partners to support business goals and to execute partner sales strategies.
- Drive consistent and predictable channel bookings through joint business planning and ongoing channel enablement.
- Work closely with our direct sales teams and leaders to form a coherent indirect strategy.
- Responsible for managing the partnership with our distributor to drive growth, coverage, and scale
- Negotiate and close partnership contracts.
- Create and drive overall channel strategy and prioritisation plan for MENA, including the development of an Elastic Stack practice across priority channel partners.
What You Bring Along:
- At least 5 years past experience in recruiting, enabling and managing channel partners with direct personal involvement.
- Exposure to and expertise in building channel partners from the ground up.
- Self motivated, energetic, smart, self-directed, and passionate about business development and channel engagement
- Demonstrated success growing partners through increased lead generation and pipeline growth
- Experience negotiating channel agreements
- Understanding and experience of security, observability, GenAI, search, or big data markets / products
- Willing to travel regularly.
Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People
As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Generous number of vacation days each year
- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
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