Partner Sales Director

2 Months ago • 10 Years + • Sales

Job Summary

Job Description

Dun & Bradstreet is seeking a Partner Sales Director to drive growth through its partner ecosystem, focusing on specific industry verticals. The role involves developing and executing co-sell and co-market strategies with consulting, technology, and channel partners. Responsibilities include building executive relationships, creating joint value propositions, and aligning with internal sales, marketing, and product teams. The position requires managing complex technical partnership deals, identifying strategic opportunities, creating compelling use cases, and ensuring new partnerships are monetized. The Partner Sales Director will be responsible for meeting annual sales goals, maintaining CRM data, acting as a subject matter expert on partner solutions, and serving as a liaison between direct sales teams and the partner ecosystem. The role also involves staying updated on market trends and enabling the direct sales team to position partner offerings effectively. This is a strategic role with significant revenue impact in the UK & Ireland market.
Must have:
  • 10+ years senior sales experience in consultative/solution selling
  • 5+ years partnership experience managing/selling reseller engagements
  • Knowledge of enterprise-wide business information solutions
  • Ability to understand customer business models and industry challenges
  • Proven success in building and executing partner sales strategies
  • Track-record of maintaining relationships with sophisticated clients
  • Demonstrated ability to consistently achieve sales targets
  • High aptitude to stay current with technology
  • Excellent influencing and business communication skills
  • Proficiency in CRM software (e.g., SFDC) and Microsoft Office
  • Ownership mindset, problem-solving, curiosity, and proactivity
  • Continuous growth mindset
  • Fluency in English
  • Willingness to travel

Job Details

Why We Work at Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet combines global data and local expertise to help clients make smarter decisions. With 6,000+ people in 31 countries, we are a team of diverse thinkers and problem solvers who all share a common curiosity: to find new ways to turn data into value. If you share this curiosity and want to be part of a future-ready company, come join us! Learn more at dnb.com/careers.

As a Partner Sales Director (PSD), you will play a pivotal role in accelerating Dun & Bradstreet’s growth through our partner ecosystem. Aligned to a specific industry vertical (e.g. Financial Services, Technology, Manufacturing, Public Sector), you will be responsible for driving incremental revenue via co-sell and co-market initiatives with key consulting, technology, and channel partners.

You will act as a trusted partner advisor, identifying joint value propositions, building go-to-market strategies, and executing partner sales motions in close alignment with Dun & Bradstreet’s direct sales, marketing, and product teams.
This is a highly visible and strategic role with the opportunity to directly influence revenue growth and partner success in the UK & I market.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive and manage complex and strategic technical Partnership deals engaging with key business and technical contacts, understanding customers’ business and technology priorities, governance, decision, and budget processes.
  • Build senior level executive relationships with partners to achieve revenue growth and partner satisfaction objectives within targeted partner prospects.
  • Collaborate with internal product organisation to identify strategic opportunities with potential partners to support revenue growth.
  • Create compelling use cases for potential partners. These have longer sales cycles requiring extensive pre-sales efforts to establish credibility, map out solution architecture, validate value proposition, and test.
  • Prospect, qualify, negotiate, close and initiate the implementation of new partnerships and ensuring they monetize.
  • Meet annual sales goals through growing existing strategic partnerships and partner acquisition where appropriate.
  • Maintain consistent and accurate data in relevant CRM software (e.g. SFDC) and other sales tools to support territory, account planning and forecasting.
  • Establish and maintain expertise in prospective partner use cases; participate in industry focus groups, conferences, or any other meetings for industries in which he/she is prospecting.
  • Be a respected subject matter expert for Partner solutions; discuss product strategy and roadmaps in the context of market and technology trends.
  • Act as the liaison between Dun & Bradstreet’s direct sales teams and the partner ecosystem to drive co-selling, joint account planning, and partner influence.
  • Serve as a thought leader for your aligned industry, staying up-to-date with market trends, competitors, and emerging technologies.
  • Manage internal stakeholders and enable direct sales team to position partner offerings to drive revenue.


Essential Requirements

  • 10+years prior senior sales experience, selling new solutions in a consultative/solution-oriented selling environment generating significant revenue growth.
  • 5+ years Partnership experience managing/selling reseller engagements
  • Demonstrated knowledge of enterprise-wide business information solutions
  • Ability to understand customer business models, their industry, competitors and end customer challenges
  • Demonstrated success in building and executing partner sales strategies that drive revenue growth and co-sell success.
  • Proven track-record of maintaining and strengthening relationships with sophisticated clients with complex solution requirement
  • Demonstrated ability to consistently achieve sales targets over an extended period of time
  • High aptitude to stay current and train on related technology areas
  • Highly articulate with excellent influencing and business communication (verbal and written) skills and presentation skills suitable for a global corporate environment
  • Proficiency in CRM software (e.g., SFDC), and Microsoft Office Suite skills.
  • Show an ownership mindset in everything you do. Be a problem solver, be curious and be inspired to take action. Be proactive, seek ways to collaborate and connect with people and teams in support of driving success.
  • Continuous growth mindset, keep learning through social experiences and relationships with stakeholders, experts, colleagues and mentors as well as widen and broaden your competencies through structural courses and programs.
  • Where applicable, fluency in English and languages relevant to the working market.
  • Willing to travel for the interest of business


All Dun & Bradstreet job postings can be found at https://www.dnb.com/about-us/careers-and-people/joblistings.html and https://jobs.lever.co/dnb. Official communication from Dun & Bradstreet will come from an email address ending in @dnb.com.


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