Partner Manager Jobs in Illinois

Overview

At NetApp, we have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. As part of our sales organization, your role will require a strategic blend of technical acumen and charismatic client engagement, ensuring that every partnership is nurtured towards its maximum potential. As a pivotal link between NetApp and our clients, your contributions will directly influence the growth and direction of our department, making a lasting impact on the organization's success. This is more than a job—it's a chance to be part of a team that values innovation, supports professional growth, and celebrates shared victories.

Own Every Moment at NetApp

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins.

Job Summary

As a National Partner Manager, you will be on a team focused on CDW. In this role, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams; including Field Sales, Systems Engineering, Channel Marketing, Field Marketing, Alliances, and Sales Operations. The ability to successfully leverage these resources to meet and exceed sales performance goals. Your primary objective will be to grow NetApp’s business with CDW’s central region through strategic partner planning, enablement, sales acceleration, and robust pipeline generation. The role requires strong communication and collaboration skills combined with a sense of urgency to drive revenue generation.

This position is remote (with sufficient experience). A desired home office is within the Chicagoland area.

Essential Functions

• Maintain and deepen relationships with CDW to create increased sales opportunities
• Execute and co-develop a sales strategy for the assigned sales area. Use business plans as a roadmap for go-to-market and program development, including sales goals
• Work closely with sales management and team resources on development and execution of the sales strategy
• Achieve monthly, quarterly, and annual sales targets
• Be seen and treated by CDW as a trusted and valued resource
• Collaborate with the field marketing organization to plan, deliver, and manage effective communication and demand generation campaigns for CDW

Job Requirements

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, presentation, customer service, business, and negotiation skills
• Bring a strong hunter mindset to identify, create, and accelerate new opportunities across the CDW business
• Ability to travel within the assigned territory
• A strong understanding of the sales process and channel sales
• High energy with the capability to multi-task in a dynamic, rapidly growing organization
• Thorough understanding of go-to-market strategies including account segmentation, products, marketing strategies, etc.
• Broad exposure to a variety of technologies/concepts in a distributed environment

Education

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 7+ years of direct experience managing or partnering with CDW
• Past experience successfully selling solutions with channel partners
• Confident communicator capable of executive engagement
• Strong in co-selling and partner deal motion
• Balanced operator across strategy and execution

Compensation

The target salary range for this position is 287,300 - 371,800 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. The range is based on 'On Target Earnings’ (OTE) representing the total potential earnings, which is the sum of the base salary and potential commission earned when performance targets are achieved. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSUs). These offerings are subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. We will provide detailed information about the specific benefits for your region during the recruitment process.

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You'll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one.

Submitting an application

To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.

Our values

Put the customer at the center. Care for each other and our communities. Think and act like owners. Build belonging every day. Embrace a growth mindset.

Benefits

Volunteer time off

40 hours of paid volunteer time each year.

Well-being

Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources to help employees be their best.

Time away

Paid time off for vacation and to recharge.