Meet the Team

The Splunk partner ecosystem is a crucial part of our business, and with a high focus on our strategic partners, this marketing role encompasses many possibilities.

You'll be joining a fast-growing, rapidly evolving business and market where you'll be challenged to grow and reach new heights. You'll work alongside innovative, hardworking, and dedicated peers across GPM and the broader functional marketing teams. The impact of your work will directly shape our future and influence how we are perceived in the market and by our customers.

We prioritise personal and professional development, empowering team members through ownership, new experiences, and both formal and informal learning opportunities. All of this sits within an open, encouraging, and highly collaborative work environment.

Your Impact

This role requires you to be self-motivated, flexible and to be able to balance multiple projects at the same time. This role will work closely with Field Marketing, Global Partner Marketing, and the Strategic Partner Sales teams within Splunk.

You will have direct responsibility for driving joint, long-term programs with global and regional strategic partners for planning and implementing demand generation programs to deliver impact with and for our partners.

Responsibilities:

• Think creatively to drive phenomenal opportunities for our partners and their customers.

• Plan, develop and drive coordinated marketing campaigns with strategic and high growth partners.

• Cultivate and grow relationships with marketing teams at partner sites and be the point of contact for strategic partners marketing engagement.

• Act as partner evangelist passionate about influencing the value delivered to Splunk and its customers through partners.

• Lead MDF budget tracking and utilization in partnership with the field marketing and partner managers to ensure alignment with business priorities.

• Provide a monthly roll-up of key metrics, ROI and program efficiency of strategic partner campaigns to resolve return on investment and prioritize resources.

• Continually evaluate program performance and results to improve strategies.

• Work with demand generation teams to engage partners in demand generating activities, as well as ensuring compelling digital marketing materials are available to the ecosystem.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in partner marketing and communication.

• Experience and expertise in working with strategic and high growth partners is required.

• Strong skills in marketing strategy and ability to drive creation and execution of programs in a highly fast paced environment.

• Ability to envision, lead and complete multi-dimensional partner marketing plans with grit and a growth mindset.

• Confidence in a dynamic, fast paced and high-visibility role.

• Experience in ensuring campaign success including planning, measuring and adjusting GTM tactics to deliver desired business impact, based on geo variances.

• Excellent communication (written and verbal), reporting and presentation skills.

• Used to engaging with partners and colleagues in an international workspace

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to influence, motivate and work in a highly cross-functional matrix environment to drive outcomes based plans, programs and execution.

• Understanding of a broad range of marketing activities, subject areas, and tactics, including field marketing, digital marketing and experience events.

• Highly motivated, self-starter who can build and launch programs within budget and effectively handle multiple, concurrent timelines

Why Cisco

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.