Partner Sales Manager

At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers. When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing. **Partner Sales Manager (PSM) - Paris**: **Why We Have This Role** The Partner Sales Manager (PSM) role is essential in driving growth through strategic partnerships in today’s competitive landscape. Tasked with achieving Partner Sales quotas, PSMs leverage their expertise to generate revenue and influence decision-making while collaborating closely with partners. Supported by our Ecosystem function and regional Centers of Excellence (COEs), PSMs ensure effective go-to-market strategies and adapt offerings to meet customer needs across diverse markets. **How You’ll Find Success** - All PSMs are responsible for driving pipeline generation, impacted revenue, closed business, and renewal rates. Depending on the global market, there are slight differences in responsibilities and coordination with other roles - Serve as a strategic partner to the sales team in key opportunities, delivering outputs that help customers build their vision for experience management, and design their roadmaps towards the art of the possible. - Build a strong team culture focused on meeting the needs of our clients and internal customers including sales and customer success. **How You'll Grow** - The XM category cuts across several stand-alone areas of professional expertise. In this role you will gain exposure across the entire XM category (customer, employee, and brand experience) as well as access to a diverse set of leadership, cross-functional departments, external executive relationships, and much more. - Career Action Planning with Manager - Qmobility **Things You’ll Do** - Strategic Go-To-Market**:Responsible for end-to-end "sell with Partner" activities, driving revenue generation through Partners, and managing the operational sales pipeline and forecast tracking process throughout the cycle (MEDDICCC, etc). - Partner Development: Collaborate with Partners to manage a territory, adapt partner offerings to their market and connect customer needs to XM related offerings. Inspire partners to expand Qualtrics practices in-market. - Results-oriented Partner Management: Develop Partners to be able to execute against Qualtrics GTM plan and understand how to leverage GTM resources (e.g., marketing and sellers). Manage accountability of Partners to deliver against sales plans. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with PEM (if PEM coverage is available in-market) to build XM GTM campaigns on offerings generated by the PEM + Partner. Engage with Center of Excellence (COE) or in-market enablement resources for XM sales best practices/collateral, when training or supporting Partners sellers (in territory) - Deal Support: Enable Account Executives (AE) to sell faster (reduced sales cycles) and bigger deal sizes with the support of Partners. Co-sell and guide AEs during deal cycles - Partner Advocate**:Develop Partner Sales Strategies that inform AEs of which Partners are best fit to support their customers short and long term needs related to XM solutions **What We’re looking For On Your Resume** - +7-10 years SaaS selling experience as an Enterprise Account Executive or Sales Leader as a top performer (clear demonstration of consistent +100% over-achievement) - Familiarity of how a partner ecosystem operates, strategic alliances, marketing, business development - Solution selling capability to drive a consultative sales process with Partners - Polished confidence working-with and presenting-to C-level executives - Project/program management skills to manage the complexities of working with multiple Partner sellers across many accounts - Coaching, teaching, and enablement skills to activate many Partner sellers - Scale mindset, ability to enable others - An undeniable passion for winning and creative solutioning - Bachelor's degree, MBA or other relevant professional degree encouraged - You are able to travel when necessary (50%) **What You Should Know About This Team** We prid