Business Development Manager - Global Partner Organization
San Jose, Ca, Us
Formulated software and mobility businesses with Cisco’s Service Provider Technology Partners by defining and creating partner go-to-market strategies and delivering channel enablement programs. Led channel acquisition integration for service provider architectures. Served as GTM and operations lead between Cisco and Ericsson upon formation of strategic alliance.◆ Collaborated with key stakeholders at Ericsson to construct interim commerce processes, thereby enabling $33M of bookings within the first eight months.◆ Built and managed a cross-functional team to negotiate shipping agreement to address larger volume, thereby reducing delivery times by 50%.◆ Decreased onboarding time by 66% by establishing standardized protocol associated with 56 of Ericsson’s legal entities, as well as 2K employees during formulation of partnership.◆ Created and delivered four innovative SP Technology hardware and software solutions, enabling 100+ partners and launched diverse promotions to increase partner contribution to Cisco’s SP businesses from 47% to 58%, driving value of strategic partner programs.◆ Developed channel go-to-market strategy, led legacy company contract migration, and executed partner integrations for Ubiquisys, Broadhop, Cariden, Intucell, and Tail-F acquisitions, standardizing processes and fostering rapid adoption of internal practices across acquired companies.◆ Coordinated subject matter experts and hired learned partners and developed impactful content and marketing material to launch 15+ sales and engineering courses to train 1K employees of partner companies.