What You'll Do

At Teradata, we are leading the data & AI era. As enterprises address today's digital economy, they are faced with new competition and consumer expectations and are turning to data to power their future. Teradata has worked with the largest companies in the world for 40 years, bringing our experience and expertise to support global enterprises with their most demanding, mission-critical, complex, and large-scale data needs.? Teradata is recognized as a leader in the cloud, data, AI and analytics spaces by top analyst firms, Gartner and Forrester, and Fortune Magazine as well.?

Our connected multi-cloud data platform for enterprise analytics, Teradata Vantage, is an extremely scalable, secure, and resilient offering that simplifies ecosystems by connecting data and making it easier to uncover insights from across the organization...regardless of where that data resides. With Vantage, we enable companies to modernize their data management, from start to scale. Every day, millions of users benefit from our open data platform. Empowering customers and partners to develop and build how they like, we enable hundreds of business outcomes and solutions, including improving customer experience and profitability, driving operational efficiency, realizing financial transformation, or achieving operational efficiency.

As the world of data grows, we are the leader in enabling the future of connected businesses, powered by data intelligence. We are committed to delivering on this vision by following sustainable business practices and with a strong focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We believe that only by embracing diversity of identity, thought, background, expression, and perspective can we solve today's challenges and reimagine tomorrow's world.

This is a unique opportunity to join our team in a period of fast growth and expansion.?If you are interested in working in a startup?like?environment where you can directly influence the future of?cloud-based?analytics solutions and services, then Teradata is the place for you.?You will?join?a team of business development professionals, cloud experts, and business builders?to deploy cloud services?and cloud native integrations?that bring?Teradata's?analytics capabilities to the public cloud platforms.

Teradata is looking for an exceptional leader to grow our business with Accenture globally (75% of the time) as well as with other global SI (25%), with a specific focus on developing Teradata cloud-based offerings and executing strategic go-to-market initiatives that will help our customers achieve their digital future.

The primary focus for this role will be to own the success of our relationship with?Accenture and the secondary focus will be to own the development of new alliances with other Global SI. Those activities will include program management, contract management, funnel management, governance, financial metrics and collaborate cross-functionally with product management on roadmap and supporting the GTM sales teams and regional partner organizations. The Global Alliance Leader is ultimately responsible for attainment of revenue objectives, growth targets as well as having matrix management responsibility for a cross functional sales, services and support organization aligned with annual and long-term strategies to develop, grow and maintain our Alliance with Accenture and other SI. The Global Alliance Leader will also develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with our Teradata Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, Finance and Services teams in support of tight alignment between the SI and team Teradata.

If you are a high energy, collaborative individual who can manage multiple touch points, take ownership of the business and create strong relationships across the organization and work collaboratively to support the success of our business within Teradata and the Cloud organization, this is the role for you.

Applicants should have a proven track record in general management of a Global Partner like Accenture. The scope of the role includes identification of new business opportunities with or through the partner, including growth within existing Teradata accounts, management of the relationships and sales engagement process to gain agreement with requisite stakeholders on execution.? The applicant will own the relationship with the partner, the business development, support sales and maintain up to date best practices on partnership. The role will require exceptional strategy and interpersonal skills, solid understanding of the Cloud Provider technology & GTM, and a deep understanding of Teradata strategies and business model. This role will report to the VP for System Integrators and Advisors.

Responsibilities

• Develop, build, maintain and execute the global partner business plan providing focus in generating new revenue.

• Manage, foster and grow relationships at the executive level with high visibility across all industry sub-segments.

• Drive increased adoption of Teradata solutions with partners; facilitate communication, enablement, and resource alignment to accelerate growth.

• Create, develop and execute functional or sector specific initiatives in line with the partner's and Teradata strategic objectives.

• Develop an in-depth understanding of the partner's business objectives and effectively communicate and align with Teradata to drive incremental growth.

• Develop strong relations and advocates with key decision makers on the partner side as well as internally in Teradata to support growth of our business.

• Identify new business opportunities with or through the partners, develop plans for how Teradata can leverage these and gain agreement with requisite stakeholders on execution.

• Develop presentations and materials to support sales with and through partner.

• Support sales calls and consulting engagements where the partners are involved by maintain up to date best practices on partnership.

• Achievement of sales and business development objectives associated with driving revenue and new account development and related activities.

The successful candidate will report directly to the VP, SIs and Advisors.?The successful candidate will work from a Teradata facility or virtual and will be expected to travel on business (25-40% travel).

What Makes You a Qualified Candidate

A successful candidate should be a strategic thinker, self-starter who is creative and driven. The candidate must possess the ability to lead, advise and advocate for partners. The desired candidate should be innovative and skilled at seizing opportunities and transforming strategy into results.

• BS, MBA, or MS in business, technical or professional discipline or equivalent work experience. Highly seasoned professionals with significant experience leading multi-functional teams.

• Minimum of 10 years of general management / leadership experience and, ideally, similar tenure of global alliances management experience (training/development/performance management of sales/consulting team).

• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on, Major account, goal ownership experience.

• Must have the ability to frame ambiguous business opportunities, create structured business recommendations, adapt quickly based on senior stakeholder input and effectively communicate to internal & external leadership teams.

What You'll Bring

• Strong understanding of and practical experience in alliance management specifically within high-tech at both a strategic, tactical, and operational level.

• Enterprise sales leadership experience

• Partner/customer cloud services strategy development experience

• Ability to analyse partner business model & financials to develop business models and new revenue streams.

• Demonstrated ability to motivate & drive sales results through a global v-team.

• High degree of Executive presence; proven ability and experience to operate effectively at senior management and C-executive levels.

• Demonstrated ability to quickly gain trust and credibility.

• Strong Interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to deliver effective diplomatic communications?as well as handle sensitive information and materials in a confidential manner.

• Technical background in databases, enterprise software, and current knowledge of Teradata solutions is desired.

• Passion to win, entrepreneurial, high energy, collaborative, responsive, and results-driven self-starter.

• Ability to deal well with change and be a team player, builder, and leader.

• Excellent presentation skills and confidence

Why We Think You'll Love Teradata

We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are an anti-racist company because our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a statement. It is a deep commitment to doing the work to foster an equitable environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.

Our Company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That's why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers-and our customers' customers-to make better, more confident decisions. The world's top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise.