
Partner Ecosystem Program Manager
NetApp
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Morrisville • North Carolina • United States
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Salary
💰 $162,350 - $242,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Partner Relationship Ownership: Serve as the primary systems point-of-contact for all external partners.
- Establish structured communication, escalation paths, and process governance.
- Build productive long-term relationships with partners’ technical and operational teams.
- Conduct Quarterly Business Review (QBR) meetings with strategic partners.
- Engage Operations leadership to identify operational improvement opportunities and strategic initiatives.
- Conduct business case development, including problem definition, expected benefits, cost/resource estimation, and ROI modeling.
- Prepare investment proposals and recommend portfolio decisions for senior leadership approval.
- Track and support initiative execution and benefit realization.
- Own intake and triage for partner-impacting IT issues.
- Drive partner onboarding, testing coordination, training, and go-live enablement for transformation initiatives.
- Represent partner operational and system requirements within program decision-making.
- Develop partner enablement frameworks for new systems, integrations, and operational processes.
- Align enhancement prioritization to Operations and IT strategy.
Requirements
- Proven experience in program management, particularly in partner relationship management.
- Strong understanding of IT systems and operational transformation.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to develop and execute strategic initiatives and business cases.
- Experience in conducting QBRs and managing strategic partner relationships.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to evaluate ROI and impact on operational metrics.
- Familiarity with major transformation programs and change management practices.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in supply chain and customer delivery models.
- Extensive knowledge of ERP, WMS, and other relevant IT systems.
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Retirement or Pension Plans
- Paid Time Off
- various Leave options
- employee stock purchase plan
- restricted stocks (RSU’s)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
program managementbusiness case developmentROI modelingoperational transformationanalytical skillsERPWMSchange managementstrategic initiativespartner onboarding
Soft Skills
communicationnegotiationrelationship-buildingproblem definitionprocess governancecollaborationleadershipstrategic thinkingtrainingstakeholder engagement