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Director of Strategic Partnerships
Location
United States
Posted
9 days ago
Salary
$120K - $240K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director of Strategic Partnerships
The WFS Group
• develop and execute Curvion's strategic partnership strategy. • identify, recruit, onboard, and activate high-value referral and channel partners. • build relationships with agencies, consultants, technology providers, communities, influencers, and other organizations that serve our ideal client profile. • create and manage partnership programs designed to generate qualified opportunities and revenue. • negotiate partnership agreements, referral arrangements, and strategic alliances. • secure podcast appearances, speaking engagements, industry opportunities, and other leveraged distribution channels. • create systems, processes, and reporting mechanisms to measure partnership performance and ROl. • collaborate closely with the CEO and leadership team on growth initiatives and strategic opportunities. • identify new distribution channels capable of generating scalable deal flow. • build and manage a healthy pipeline of partnership opportunities and strategic relationships. • continuously optimize Curvion's partnership ecosystem to maximize opportunities, influence, and revenue growth.
Job Requirements
- extensive experience building strategic partnerships, referral programs, channel partnerships, and business development initiatives.
- naturally think in terms of leverage, ecosystems, and scalable growth channels.
- successfully built relationships that generated meaningful revenue or opportunities for your organization.
- exceptional communicator who can quickly build trust with executives, founders, consultants, agency owners, influencers, and strategic partners.
- experience building partnership outreach motions, including identifying ideal partner profiles, sourcing opportunities, developing outreach campaigns, and consistently generating meetings with qualified strategic partners.
- designed, launched, or improved partnership programs and understand how to create incentives, processes, and accountability mechanisms that encourage ongoing partner engagement and deal flow.
- ability to not just generate partner deal flow but close deals with new opportunities as well
- Bonus points if you have experience building outreach motions to generate podcast & speaking engagements as well to create sales opportunities
- Bonus points if you built and managed a partnership program for a marketing or sales agency
- able to commit to a quota of a billion dollars in new sales from partnerships
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