Manager, Partner Acceleration, HR Service Delivery

Job Description

The world of work is one of the most pressing issues that business leaders face today and, as the defining enterprise platform of the 21st century, ServiceNow is poised to be the platform of choice to tackle this critical imperative. But we will not do it without a robust partner ecosystem leading partner offerings and solutions and that's exactly where this role comes into play. The HR Lead, Manager will join our Partner Acceleration team and the Alliance & Channel Ecosystem (ACE) team who is at the forefront of driving ServiceNow's growth to $15B and beyond.

The Partner Acceleration team has set a goal to drive profitable revenue through the identification and monetization of breakthrough Offerings with our broader partner ecosystem. The HR Lead, Manager is an exciting role and accountable for collaboratively developing NOW's partner Offerings strategy for the HR industry, recruitment of partners, ownership of partner heat-map by geo/segment, assisting with partner engagement for Product Line 'use cases', 'industry segment' roadmaps, TAM and Partner IP monetization scenarios with specific focus on development of new joint GTM business and commercial models with designated partners (eg; SISOs & ISVs) that will scale to accelerate NOW growth to $15B+.

At a business level, you will be working with ServiceNow stakeholders to create and execute against our most pressing HR personas and business imperatives. As a result, the successful candidate will possess deep HR industry knowledge and domain expertise, program management skills, ability to drive measurable outcomes with the partner ecosystem, and should have a track record of demonstrated cross functional exec collaboration in a high-profile consulting/services/software organization that required securing consensus on key initiatives & priorities against targeted outcomes in a complex global high growth company. This individual will also need to be adept at internalizing the Global ACE mission & transformational op model principles to enable & accelerate NOW growth.

Primary focus:
• Help identify, ideate, cultivate, monetize and scale new HR Offerings that fundamentally transform the world of work. We classify partner Offerings as opportunities for a partner's thought leadership IP to be coupled with the ServiceNow platform to create something net new to drive implementation or managed service revenue.
• Work closely and collaboratively with global & regional ACE staff and extended staff members to cross functionally align and vertically operationalize and localize the ACE global operating model principles, initiatives and programs within the three regions leveraging the following three global-geo op model tenets.
• Partner Segmentation/Coverage, GTM Alignment & Governance, as well as a consistent & predictable Joint GTM Engagement approach.

Additional Responsibilities:
• Drive measurable outcomes with partner ecosystem through prioritized industry solutions across key verticals
• Work strategically to identify new industry specific 'use cases and solutions' with key partners and build the associated partner industry plan including joint GTM and marketing campaigns around key industry solutions. This includes successful execution of offering and solution launches to the global sales team.
• Drive tight cross-functional alignment across key internal stakeholders such as our industry solutions team, product teams, partner marketing teams and ACE global and regional teams.
• Work collaboratively with partner execs along with the ACE leadership to jointly develop world class business plans with associated QBR governance & exec sponsorship to include committed targets & shared metrics.

Requirements
• Professional experience and/or knowledge of the HR industry vertical and the associated partner ecosystem.
• Strong network of industry SMEs in both partner and client environments.
• Ability to engage with partners in the sales cycle on joint 'must win' pursuits/opportunities, as well as facilitate co-sell & co-deliver opportunities with partners.
• Strong business development experience and history of developing and executing partner go-to-market plans.
• Ability to align, localize and execute joint GTM strategy and multi-year business plans with targeted partners around industry solutions with compelling joint GTM value propositions.
• Clearly defined joint go-to-market initiatives with key NOW-Partner global exec sponsors with key milestones and progress tracking metrics & associated rigor to 'inspect what we expect'.
• Work with regions to align with field sales, presales, enablement & services governance to ensure regional leadership input and feedback for ongoing refinement

Qualifications

Qualifications
• The ideal candidate will have over 7+ years experience with a Global Systems Integrator, Enterprise Software and/or Enterprise SaaS company enabling or driving industry specific solutions aligned to the 'Digital Transformation Journey' that drive revenue & accelerated growth.
• Strong background and domain expertise working directly or indirectly in the HR-technology industry is a key requirement for this role.
• Must be a team player that is goal-oriented and confident, with aptitude and desire to build high-performing teams. This individual must demonstrate an ability to get things done, build consensus and resolve conflict in a highly collaborative manner.
• Diligent at measuring and communicating progress to achieve targeted business results, identifying obstacles and associated remediation plans.
• The successful candidate will be adaptable and flexible, able to work and thrive in a highly dynamic environment.
• Past experience and relationships with Global System Integrators, Managed Service Providers, ISV software vendors and experience with Cloud & SaaS Professional Service organizations required.
• Bachelor's degree a requirement.

Additional Information

ServiceNow is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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Work personas

Work personas are categories that are assigned to employees depending on the nature of their work. Employees will fall into one of three categories: Remote, Flexible or Required in Office.

Required in Office

A required in office work persona is defined as an employee who is contracted to work from or aligned to a ServiceNow-affiliated office. This persona is required to work from their assigned workplace location 100% of the work week based on the business needs of their role.

Flexible

A flexible work persona is defined as an employee who is contracted to work from or aligned to a ServiceNow-affiliated office and will work from their assigned workplace location roughly 3 days/week or less (generally around 40-60% of the work week). Flexible employees may choose to work the remaining working time from their workplace location or home. Flexible employees are required to work within their state, province, region, or country of employment.

Remote

A remote work persona is defined as an employee who performs their responsibilities exclusively outside of a ServiceNow workplace and is not contracted or aligned to a ServiceNow-affiliated office, including those whose place of work (pursuant to their terms and conditions of employment) is their home. Remote employees are required to work within their state, province, region, or country of employment.