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Brightpearl • Bristol, United Kingdom

Alliances Manager

Employment type:  Full time

Remote-first

Core hours 11–3

Job Description

About Brightpearl

We’re an award-winning tech business, recently named the Top UK SaaS Company to work for. Our UK HQ is located in Bristol, cited as being one of the fast growing technology hubs in the country.

Brightpearl is the number one Retail Operating System for brands and retailers. We manage everything ‘after the buy button’ so that our customers can focus on growing their business. “People First” is one of our core company values, so before we get too into your day to day, here’s a taster of what we bring to the table:

  • The opportunity to work with talented people
  • A transparent leadership team
  • Flexible working and generous holiday allowances

And that’s not all. Check out our perks and benefits to see what else we offer!

About the Role

Brightpearl is looking for an Alliances Manager to develop and scale partnerships with technology vendors in the ecommerce ecosystem. You’ll have the opportunity to build and manage new and existing technical integrations and partnerships with some of the leading platforms around the globe, as we bring Brightpearl’s technology partnerships to the next level of growth. Reporting to the VP of Global Partnerships, you will work closely with our solutions teams, Product Management and the GTM team to bring new partners onboard who meet the goals of the business and our customers.

You’ll establish a scalable approach and efficient processes to build relationships with our technology partners. You’ll be skilled at developing new opportunities which meet 3 priorities; increasing the target addressable market, generating monetization and new business acquisition opportunities, and bringing added value and functionality to our customers.

You will be a proven technologist with thought leadership experience and an ability to build and lead a growing team of like-minded Technology Partner focused Solutions Consultants. The team you build will be made up of team members who are business and technically savvy.

Your Day-to-Day

  • Clearly define the technology partnerships roadmap and strategy
  • Manage and develop all existing technology and alliance partnerships
  • Develop new partnerships which generate choice in the technologies that our customers can select as they scale
  • Create monetization and new business acquisition opportunities
  • Work cross functionally with our Product Management and GTM teams to generate a roadmap of partnerships which supports and augments our product strategy and growth plans
  • Working with technology partners and Partner Marketing teams to generate go to market strategies that will make a positive impact with our customers and partners
  • Launch partnerships to ensure that our GTM teams are able to scale with new programs that you help to put into place
  • Work with our other Brightpearl leaders in collaboration to ensure alignment and best practices are being achieved in line with market trends and innovations.
  • Drive operational efficiencies as the impacts of this team grows at scale.
  • Recruit, retain, coach, motivate, and develop the team to reach full potential through 121 feedback and performance review, making sure that clear goals and priorities are set, ensuring effective communications and that the Alliances team runs efficiently by instilling a business partnering culture.

Requirements

About You

  • Proven experience developing technology partnership programs
  • Relevant experience as a technical sales or presales contributor or leader
  • Proven track record of creativity and KPIs in driving enablement for high growth Presales software organizations
  • Successfully recruited and built great teams
  • The ability to work in fast paced environment, be trusted to drive initiatives autonomously and gain buy in from a wide collection of stakeholders
  • Proven ability to be flexible and identify 1+1=3 opportunities with the technology partners in our ecosystem
  • Excellent communicator with exceptional presentation skills and the ability to boil down complex topics into clear and easily understandable messages
  • Flawless organizational and project management capabilities with the ability to manage multiple tasks with shifting priorities
  • Excellent analytical skills

Benefits

Brightpearl Perks

  • Join one of Austin’s Best Places to Work 2021
  • Competitive compensation package: salary, medical benefits, 20 days of annual PTO and 12 Holidays and Your Birthday
  • Work from home flexibility
  • Stocked kitchen with snacks and beer on tap
  • Work downtown Austin in an open and vibrant workspace
  • Enjoy frequent Company events, team building activities and after hour socials
  • We’re an energetic and inclusive organization
  • We believe in promoting a healthy work-life balance and support remote working with management approval.
  • Check us out on Built In Austin to get more of an insight on what it’s like to work with us!

Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we collaborate and learn from each other is core to Brightpearl’s values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a supportive place to work.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Work from home allowance
Comprehensive medical & dental plans
Offering Flexible and Remote working as standard
Pension match
Subsidised gym memberships
Learning & Development Platform

The FlexScore® is the result of a rigorous 2-step verification of a company’s flexibility

First we assess the flexibility options Brightpearl provides and then we anonymously survey a statistically significant proportion of their employees to make sure Brightpearl is as flexible as they say they are. Our assessment is based on the six key elements of flexibility: location, hours, autonomy, benefits, role modelling and work-life balance.

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Working at Brightpearl

Company employees

216

Gender diversity (male:female)

68:32

Office locations

Bristol UK & Austin Texas

Hiring Countries

United Kingdom
United States

Awards & Achievements

SaaS & Software

SaaS & Software

Industry awards 2023
Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2023
Saas & Dev Software

Saas & Dev Software

Industry awards 2022