Sr Principal, Strategic Business Development

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About the Team

Performs strategic planning and corporate development. Analyzes market data to identify trends/opportunities, develops strategic direction from market information, and crafts compelling market analysis insights. Develops the organization's strategic plan(s) to ensure its continued successful growth and profitability.

About the Role

As a Sr Principal, Industry Ecosystem Strategy - Healthcare, you will:

• Mature and drive a GTM innovation and offerings strategy to unlock and grow strategic partnerships with system integrators to accelerate the business plans of the industry sales and Go To Market teams supporting Healthcare

• Translate the strategy and focus areas of the industry teams into partnership strategies, initiatives, and solution and offerings development passionate about System Integrator partners and ISV partners that tell our industry platform story aligned to key personas

• Develop a partner-driven (inclusive of ISVs, GSIs/Sis) industry GTM offerings roadmap for the Healthcare industries aligned to market segment and geographies to support profitable growth

• Drive the solutions and programs  all the way through go-to-market activation and enablement across all groups of the GTM workstream including Sales, Alliances, Value Management, Pre Sales and CX with the ultimate goal being to improve presentation rate and driven win rate in the Healthcare industry

• Collaborate with Partner Sales and respective partners to demonstrate the GMT offerings to drive growth via sourced and influenced ACV

• Coordinate and collaborate with the teams across the organization, especially industry solution marketing, alliances, product and product strategy, pre sales, value management and sales to align on strategic focus areas, initiatives and objectives

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience related fields such as business development, management consulting or ecosystem strategy

• 6+ years shown experience in business development or application consulting in the Workday ecosystem on the Workday platform

• 4+ years proven track record working with GSI/SI's in a business development capacity and GTM offerings and industry solutions

Other Qualifications:

• Understanding and staying informed about industry trends, competitive landscape, and new technologies.

• Deep understanding of Workday Products and the key personas they support, primarily with a focus on the Financials side

• Ability to work well in a dynamic, fast-paced, matrixed environment and shown initiative in taking ownership for all assigned responsibilities, deliverables and results.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Experience in public speaking, presentation, and written communication advised at a technical and business audience at all levels of an organization as part of a financia