Microsoft Alliance Partner

Overview Microsoft Alliance Partner Alpharetta, GA (Onsite) Role Overview Serve as Aptean’s primary point of contact for Microsoft, driving measurable value from the partnership by securing funding, incentives, and co-sell opportunities while providing expert guidance on licensing and commercial strategy. About the Role Aptean is seeking a highly connected Microsoft Alliance Manager to own and strengthen our relationship with Microsoft. This role is responsible for maximizing the value of Microsoft programs, incentives, and partnerships across global sales efforts. You will act as the internal expert and external liaison, ensuring our sales teams can efficiently leverage Microsoft resources to improve deal outcomes and accelerate revenue growth. This is a high-impact, individual contributor role with global scope across North America and Europe, directly influencing deal profitability, sales efficiency, and strategic partnership success. Key Responsibilities Serve as Aptean’s primary liaison to Microsoft, managing day-to-day relationships across partner, sales, and alliance teams Identify, qualify, and secure Microsoft funding, incentives, promotions, and co-sell opportunities tied to active and prospective deals Continuously evaluate Microsoft partner programs to ensure full utilization of available benefits Act as the internal expert on Microsoft licensing, incentives, partner programs, and eligibility criteria Advise Sales and Commercial teams on deal structures to maximize discounts, rebates, and program alignment Provide clear, actionable guidance to sales teams on navigating Microsoft-related processes and opportunities Coordinate Microsoft involvement in customer engagements, including joint meetings and deal support Leverage existing Microsoft relationships while building new connections to expand Aptean’s reach and influence About You Bachelor’s degree required Significant experience within the Microsoft ecosystem (Microsoft, partner, alliances, or channel roles) Strong track record of building and leveraging relationships within Microsoft Deep understanding of Microsoft partner programs, licensing models, incentives, and commercial frameworks Familiarity with Microsoft cloud, Dynamics, and related offerings Ability to translate complex Microsoft constructs into clear, actionable insights for sales teams Strong commercial acumen and analytical mindset Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across regions High initiative with a proactive approach to uncovering opportunities and driving outcomes What’s in It for You High-visibility role with direct impact on revenue growth and deal success Opportunity to shape and optimize a critical strategic partnership Cross-functional exposure across Sales, Product, Commercial, and Executive leadership Global scope with meaningful influence on go-to-market execution About Aptean At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow’s unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean’ s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Aptean’ s compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.“At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company.” –TVN Reddy Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.