Regional hiringpublishedExternal employer
SSonar
SonarAI Software

Partner Business Manager

Eastern Europe

Location

Geneva, Switzerland

Work type

Onsite

Employment

Full Time

Experience

7+ years

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

Posted

9h ago

Summary and responsibilities

Role overview

Summary

The Partner Business Manager will develop and expand relationships with channel partners in Eastern Europe, focusing on pipeline development, profitability, and partner recruitment. This role involves discovering new partners, executing regional business plans, and ensuring partner alignment with Sonar's offerings and policies.

The Impact You Will Have:


The Partner Manager wins, maintains, and expands relationships with assigned channel partners. Assigned to channel partners based on geography, channel, or market, the Partner Manager is responsible for achieving qualified pipeline development, profitability, and partner recruitment objectives. The Partner Manager represents the entire range of Sonar’s products and services to assigned partners though may focus on a specific solution or product set if focused in a partner vertical market. The Partner Manager reports to the Vice President of EMEA & APJ Channels. The success of a Sonar Partner is the success of a Partner Manager at Sonar! We believe the following will support a robust Partner Ecosystem and contribute to the success of Sonar’s strategic partners: We are looking for passionate and energetic team members to join us in building a strong and healthy partner ecosystem.


What You Will Do Daily:

  • Discover, evaluate, and develop potential partners with business models and technology stacks that complement Sonar’s offerings

  • Potential partners include Global and Regional Consulting Partners, System Integrators, Software Resellers, Technology Alliance and Distributors and where applicable Hyperscalers.

  • Develop partner territory plan for a regional and execute the business plan to deliver outcomes measures in new bookings $, Renewal $ and % and new logos

  • Establishes productive, professional, and strong relationships with key personnel in assigned partner accounts and territories

  • Initiates the involvement of company personnel, including support, service, sales, marketing, and management resources that would contribute to the success of the partner ecosystem

  • Engaged in meaningful business and account QBR’s to support partners in meeting assigned targets for profitable sales volume and strategic objectives in assigned partner accounts

  • Build momentum and executable next steps in the joint partner planning process that develops mutual performance objectives, financial targets, and critical milestones associated with a productive partner relationship

  • Proactively assesses, clarifies, and validates partner needs on an ongoing basis

  • Proactive management with Sonar’s channel policies, stringent expectations management of partners to minimize channel conflict

  • Ensures partners receive and complete the required enablement program Ensures partner and Sonar’s continuous business and technology aligns and complies.


The Experience You Will Need:

  • 7+ years of proven experience in channel and partner management in a technology software B2B, ideally in a SaaS or subscription model, Dev Tools experience would be a plus

  • Proven track record in building, maintaining, and expanding high-performance partners in the EMEA region

  • Self-starter, can-do attitude and willingness to roll up sleeves and never afraid to do the impossible

  • Strong communication and listening skills, able to influence at all levels

  • Strong ability to work effectively as part of a team. Be a bar raiser in the company values and culture

  • Curious, willing to unlearn to learn. Confident and a great communicator

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Candidate fit

Skills and qualifications

Additional skills

Channel and Partner Management • 1+ yrs
Technology Software B2B • 1+ yrs
SaaS/Subscription Model • 1+ yrs
Dev Tools • 1+ yrs
Business Planning • 1+ yrs
Account Management • 1+ yrs
Communication • 1+ yrs
Teamwork • 1+ yrs

Experience

7+ years

How this role is positioned

Role classification

Job domains

Sales & Business Dev

Industries

Technology & IT

Employment

Full Time

Contract duration

Permanent

Hiring type

Direct

Global hiring

Location specific

Offer details

Compensation and benefits

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

VisibilityShared on listing
CurrencyUSD
PeriodYearly

Location, schedule, and role shape

Work setup

Work conditions

Primary locationGeneva, Switzerland
Work typeOnsite
Global hiringNo

Bandwidth profile

peopleHigh9/10
physicalMedium5/10
cognitiveHigh8/10
executionHigh8/10
creativityMedium6/10
uncertaintyMedium7/10
communicationHigh9/10

Context on the employer

Company snapshot

Company

Sonar

Team size

Growing team

Location

Geneva, Switzerland

Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code verification and governance, we solve a critical problem: ensuring that software generated by AI-assisted developers or autonomous agents is reliable, secure, and maintainable. We help over 75% of the Fortune 100 build trusted, reliable, compliant software.

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Partner Business Manager

Geneva, SwitzerlandFull Time