Senior Manager, Partner Marketing

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**Your day at NTT DATA**

This is a key role within the Demand Marketing team, requiring the job holder to be market driven and have a good understanding of NTT DATA, Inc.’s collaboration, networking, data center & cloud and security capabilities. This role encompasses partnership value proposition development and highly targeted sales engagement and marketing programmes to build sales pipeline.

**What you'll be doing**

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Joint partner marketing strategy**
- Work closely with global and regional Marketing functions as well as the Alliance partner leads to build and manage the strategic partnership with Cisco.
- Develop a one, two and three-year strategic marketing plan - in collaboration with global and regional marketing, Alliances, as well as partner counterparts - to translate strategic business objectives into executable marketing programs and tactics
- Drive revenue, brand and communication plans and programs aligned to joint NTT DATA, Inc. and Cisco’ business objectives:

- drive the global joint go-to-market plan.
- focus on differentiated solutions/services positioning.
- understand market trends and competitive plays.
- maintenance of branding, digital platforms and supporting collateral

**Joint strategic investment agreements**
- Develop and manage joint global strategic investment agreements to meet these organizations’ business, marketing and sales objectives.
- Drive awareness of the joint program/value proposition, as well as in-region demand generation to drive NTT DATA, Inc.’s and Cisco’s pipeline, across both organizations’ stakeholders.
- Enabling our mutual teams to articulate the benefits of these initiatives and ensuring that the agreed KPIs and deliverables are met.
- Track, measure and report on the ROI, and financial aspects of these agreements.

**Sales engagement**
- Work with divisional marketing and sales enablement functions to develop collateral (aligned to global initiatives) that will equip NTT DATA, Inc.’s as well as the partners’ sales organizations to sell together.
- Understand what partner-developed training materials, systems and tools are accessible to NTT DATA, Inc. and how to utilize these, where applicable.

**Partnership communication**
- Develop and execute a communications plan and cadence into NTT DATA, Inc. and the Partner that will:

- Keep the partnership top of mind in the organizations
- Develop and manage structured communication and engagement plan i.e. support quarterly business reviews (QBRs), marketing reviews (QMRs), partner and business updates across digital platforms (HighSpot/Yammer), collateral and case studies, etc.
- Communications and thought leadership programs
- Drive both strategic and tactical brand-building opportunities, in the form of:

- Big-ticket case studies
- Social media
- Events
- Speaking opportunities
- Partner awards
- Joint blogs

**Budget management**
- Understand how to access partner marketing and program funds to drive joint global and regional marketing activities supporting brand awareness and revenue goals.
- Actively looking for/developing opportunities to utilize these funds to benefit NTT DATA, Inc.’s as well as the partner.
- Manage & track all types of partner funding available and ensure that all marketing initiatives are delivered within budget.
- Ensure all proof of execution (POE) is submitted in accordance with the Partner’s processes and timelines
- Work closely with Finance to ensure all Partner funds are recorded and accounted for in the P&L

**Reporting and metrics**
- Ownership of metrics/measurement, i.e., key performance indicators (KPIs) and reporting, of joint marketing activities against agreed initiatives, communications of joint successes as outlined in the marketing plan.
- Monitoring and analyzing the effectiveness of marketing activities, providing Partner with updates on campaign and marketing activity performance, taking measure to introduce corrective actions to improve performance.

**Partner Marketing Campaigns & Programs**
- Engage with various stakeholders throughout the business to identify a portfolio of opportunities for joint campaigns and activities with the Partner, ensuring close business alignment, regional buy-in and partner relevance.
- Actively engage with Alliance and business leads to encourage participation and investment in the programs and activities.
- Overall project management of the Partner marketing programs and plans including:

- Developing and maintaining project plans around the deliverables associated with the program.
- Regular communication between all stakeholders - partners, product mar