Senior Business Development Manager – Identity Security, GSI, MSP

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Senior Business Development Manager helping Palo Alto Networks partners build and scale Identity Security practices. Driving GTM strategy, offers and commercial growth across UK GSIs and MSPs.

Responsibilities:

  • Help strategic partners identify and prioritize high-value IDIRA growth areas
  • Build executive alignment and business cases for investment in Identity Security practices, offers and managed services
  • Secure partner commitment around people, skills, certifications, investment and launch priorities
  • Develop joint business plans with ownership, milestones and commercial objectives
  • Translate IDIRA priorities into partner-specific GTM motions, target customers, use cases and launch plans
  • Lead commercial propositions, positioning, business models and selling strategies for partner offers
  • Align Palo Alto Networks and partner teams around lighthouse opportunities, pipeline creation and launch activity
  • Turn successful motions into repeatable plays scalable through the wider ecosystem
  • Serve as the IDIRA GTM expert in strategic partner motion development
  • Evangelize and pitch priority IDIRA solutions, offers and use cases to partner and customer stakeholders
  • Guide partners on solution focus and routes to market
  • Coordinate Product, Solutions, Marketing, Sales and Partner resources to maintain momentum, validate motions and remove blockers

Requirements:

  • 7+ years in business development, partner strategy, consulting, ecosystem or channel roles within cybersecurity, cloud or enterprise technology
  • Proven experience helping partners build new practices, services, offerings or routes to market
  • Strong understanding of partner business models across GSIs, MSPs, advisory firms or large consulting organizations
  • Experience developing joint GTM plans, target-account strategies and commercial propositions
  • Strong executive presence and ability to engage senior partner business leaders
  • Proven ability to drive complex cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution
  • Strong commercial acumen and understanding of partner economics, investment models and recurring services
  • Strong understanding of cybersecurity solutions and ability to become a credible expert in IDIRA solutions, use cases and selling motions
  • Excellent communication skills across business, technical and executive audiences
  • Experience working with or within major GSIs, MSPs or advisory firms
  • Experience building managed security or recurring-service propositions
  • Experience launching partner offers, practices or new technology categories
  • Experience working across global and regional partner organizations
  • Experience in Identity Security, PAM, IGA, machine identity, secrets management or related cybersecurity domains
  • Familiarity with Agentic AI, Non-Human Identity or AI Security
  • Experience working with complex enterprise platform vendors and multi-product GTM motions

Benefits:

  • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with a disability or special need
  • Immigration sponsorship eligible
  • Equal opportunity employment
  • Confidential handling of applicant information according to EEO guidelines