Partner Executive

NetApp Careers

At NetApp, our High Achievement Principles shape how we work: we innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel as a team. We have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. As part of our sales organization, your role will require a strategic blend of technical acumen and charismatic client engagement, ensuring that every partnership is nurtured towards its maximum potential. As a pivotal link between NetApp and our clients, your contributions will directly influence the growth and direction of our department, making a lasting impact on the organization's success. This is more than a job—it's a chance to be part of a team that values innovation, supports professional growth, and celebrates shared victories.

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Responsibilities

• Windsor, England, United Kingdom

• Job category: EMEA Sales

• Job ID: 136808-en_US

• Own Every Moment at NetApp

• At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

• Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

Job Summary

This Partner Executive will lead and grow NetApp’s strategic relationship with Computacenter, one of NetApp’s key strategic partners. This is a highly visible individual contributor role with end-to-end ownership of the partnership and a clear mandate to accelerate growth, expand pipeline, increase partner engagement, and create new opportunities across the business. You will operate at the intersection of NetApp and Computacenter, developing the relationships, strategy, and field-level execution required to grow the partnership. Working alongside a dedicated Partner Sales Managers PSM and Partner Solution Architects PSA in the countries, you will bring together the business, sales, and technical motions of both organizations to identify whitespace, develop opportunities, and help our teams win together.

The ideal candidate brings a hunter mentality and acquisition mindset combined with the ability to build trusted relationships at every level of a strategic partner organization. This is an opportunity to take an established strategic partnership and help build its next phase of growth by expanding NetApp’s relevance, mindshare, and share of wallet across Computacenter.

Job Responsibilities

• Own and grow the Computacenter partnership, including business strategy, executive alignment, performance management, and field execution.
• Develop and execute joint business plans and go-to-market strategies aligned with NetApp and Computacenter growth priorities.
• Drive pipeline creation, deal acceleration, account mapping, whitespace identification, and partner-led opportunities.
• Create and strengthen co-sell motions between Computacenter sellers and NetApp field teams, connecting the right resources around strategic accounts and opportunities.
• Build and sustain relationships with key Computacenter stakeholders across sales, leadership, and technical organizations.
• Partner closely with your dedicated Partner Sales Managers PSM and Partner Solution Architects PSA in the countries to develop a unified business and technical approach to the partnership.
• Deliver sales and technical enablement programs that increase NetApp awareness, capability, and mindshare across Computacenter.
• Work cross-functionally with NetApp Sales, Solutions Engineering, Marketing, Alliances, and Operations to turn strategy into execution.
• Provide executive-level business updates, pipeline visibility, forecasts, performance insights, and recommendations for continued growth.

Job Requirements

• 8+ years of experience working with strategic or national partners, channel sales, alliances, or partner-led enterprise technology sales

• Direct experience working with Computacenter or a comparable national/global technology partner

• Strong understanding of the enterprise technology ecosystem and the relationships among technology vendors, solution providers, cloud partners, and enterprise customers

• Demonstrated ability to identify whitespace and turn strategic partner relationships into new pipeline and revenue opportunities

• Proven track record of creating pipeline and delivering revenue growth through strategic partnerships

• Experience developing and executing joint business plans and go-to-market strategies

• Demonstrated experience with co-sell motions, account mapping, pipeline generation, and partner-led sales models

• Strong executive communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills

• Ability to build credibility and influence across sales, technical, and executive audiences

• Demonstrated forecasting rigor and pipeline-management discipline

• Strong business judgment with a high degree of accountability, ownership, and execution

• Ability to navigate complex, cross-functional organizations and mobilize teams around shared business objectives

• At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

• NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

• Why You'll Thrive at NetApp

• At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

• NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

• Our culture

• We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

• If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.

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• To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.

• AI Disclosure

• For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.

• Our values

• Put the customer at the center. Care for each other and our communities. Think and act like owners. Build belonging every day. Embrace a growth mindset.

Benefits

• Volunteer time off

• 40 hours of paid volunteer time each year.

• Well-being

• Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources to help employees be their best.

• Time away

• Paid time off for vacation and to recharge.

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