Alliance Partner – 12 Months FTC

Responsibilities

• Owning Cisco partner compliance, certifications, and programme requirements
• Coordinating audits end-to-end and tracking key deadlines and updates
• Managing Cisco rebates, incentives, and funding (tracking, claims, risk/opportunity)
• Maintaining clear visibility of promotions and supporting sales activity
• Producing reporting and supporting training aligned to Cisco priorities
• Creating simple, practical guides to help teams navigate Cisco processes
• Leading internal communications on Cisco updates, initiatives, and opportunities
• Acting as the main link between Cisco and internal teams, resolving issues and driving progress
• Supporting Cisco events and strengthening day-to-day vendor relationships
• Maintaining the Cisco Partner SharePoint hub to keep information accurate and accessible
• Working closely with sales and internal teams to drive awareness of Cisco opportunities
• Supporting issue resolution by triaging and coordinating Cisco-related escalations

Requirements

• Experience in alliance, vendor, partner programmes, sales operations, or channel support
• Highly organised, able to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and stakeholders
• Strong attention to detail, particularly around compliance, audits, rebates, and incentives
• Confident communicator who can turn vendor updates into clear, practical guidance
• Comfortable coordinating activity, tracking progress, reporting, and stakeholder follow-up
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft 365, SharePoint, CRM and vendor tools
• Able to work independently, prioritise effectively, and build relationships across teams
• Cisco or wider tech vendor experience, with an understanding of partner programmes, funding, and audits (desirable)

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• compliance
• audits
• rebates
• incentives
• sales operations
• vendor programmes
• partner programmes
• reporting
• issue resolution
• stakeholder follow-up

Soft Skills

• highly organised
• attention to detail
• confident communicator
• ability to manage multiple priorities
• relationship building
• independent work
• effective prioritisation
• coordination
• tracking progress
• clear guidance