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Partner Growth Manager
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Lightspeed is a premier global cloud commerce platform designed for retail and hospitality businesses, aimed at simplifying operations and enhancing customer experiences. Our comprehensive platform empowers merchants by integrating digital and physical operations, facilitating multichannel sales, expanding to new locations, enabling global payments, offering financial solutions, and connecting to supplier networks. This is your chance to become a vital part of our dynamic and rapidly growing EMEA partnership team as a Partner Growth Manager, where your focus will be on cultivating existing commercial and strategic partnerships that attract new merchants within the EMEA market.
Your Responsibilities:
- Engage actively with existing referral partners to onboard new customers to Lightspeed.
- Conduct research and analyze trends in the enterprise app market to identify new applications, pricing structures, and competitive landscapes.
- Develop, manage, and sustain a sales pipeline to implement the market strategy for assigned territories.
- Achieve channel sales targets in designated geographical regions and provide regular pipeline reports and forecasts from channel partners.
- Ensure effective two-way communication with channel partners and Lightspeed.
- Deliver engaging screen-sharing presentations as needed.
- Oversee and enhance the onboarding process for new partners, including training and go-to-market strategies.
- Identify and establish new referral partnerships through outbound prospecting and inbound qualification.
Your Qualifications:
The partnerships team is unique; we are commercial-focused while emphasizing product innovations and features.
- 3+ years of experience in partnership management with a focus on collaborative revenue growth, preferably in B2B software sales.
- Outstanding negotiation skills, with an emphasis on understanding the needs of customers, partners, and the market.
- Strong familiarity with the partnership landscape, particularly in the EMEA region.
- Significant stakeholder in partnership strategy, collaborating closely with regional Sales Managers.
- Bring enthusiasm and energy to the team.

