Head of Partnerships

Are you cut out for and ready to grab a unique opportunity in the partner space? Come work with us!
Apply for this job 🚀 Are you cut out for and ready to grab a unique opportunity in the partner space? Are you eager to be shaping and building up a whole partner sales motion for a thriving SaaS company, including defining the strategy and partner program? Furthermore, would you look forward to collaborating closely with the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and the rest of leadership in a thriving scale-up environment? If your answer is three times yes, keep on reading!

The opportunity and what we offer
Formalize (formerly known as Whistleblower Software) has embarked on an exciting scaling journey with notable success across Europe.

As our newly appointed HO Partnerships, you'll be responsible for defining and rolling out a new partner program including partner tiering, incentives, partner management and enablement plus more. The role will initially focus on organising and growing our channel partners but other types of partnerships could be added in the future.

This role offers you:

• Competitive salary + company shares
• Permanent position in a fast-growing international SaaS company
• Be part of a social, diverse and international team
• Central locations with 1 remote day/week
• Madrid: María de Molina. Aarhus: kannikegade
• Unique opportunity to learn and grow personally while making a significant direct impact on Formalize’s next wave of growth.

Responsibilities
You will be joining our team of 120+ people in rapid growth. We are on a venture journey and you will have a huge impact on the organisation from the start.

• Strategic Partnership Development:
  Lead the development and implementation of a strategic partnership framework to support the company's growth objectives, going from one product to a platform of products and rapidly growing partner sales in addition to our outbound and inbound sales.

• Support the company growth:
  You should develop and manage a structured program to support the diverse needs of our currently 500 partners as well as build plans to attract and grow a significant number of new partners in the coming years in a scalable, effective way.

• Partner Program Development:
  Design and implement partner programs that incentivise sales, collaboration, and mutual success. We want to get a larger share of wallets and continued focus from the current partners, convert them to also deal with our platform offering and take advantage of the synergies between the two.

• Performance Metrics and KPIs:
  Define and track key performance metrics to measure the success of partnerships. Collaborate with partner-related roles to ensure they can meet and exceed their performance targets

Qualifications and about you

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in partnership management or business development.
• Proven track record of successfully developing and managing partnership-
• Experience in Saas or Tech companies is a must
• Experience in building and executing strategic partnership frameworks and programs to support business expansion
• It’s an advantage having experience in the compliance, regulatory/legal industry and working with partnerships with law firms, accountant firms and DPOs.
• Ability to inspire and lead a team as well as lead the partner motion across our organisational boundaries.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across different teams and with external partners.
• Experience fostering a collaborative and inclusive team culture.
• Results-oriented mindset with a focus on achieving and exceeding partnership performance targets