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Cloudflare

Principal Partner Account Manager

Cloudflare

. Define and execute Cloudflare’s partner ecosystem strategy and annual business plan for Northern Europe .

Posted 9/22/2026full-timeAmsterdam • NetherlandsLeadWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in partner management and channel sales, with a strong focus on driving commercial outcomes and revenue growth across diverse ecosystems in Northern Europe. Proficient in building executive relationships, executing partner strategies, and leveraging business intelligence for performance management.

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Partner ManagementChannel SalesCloud InfrastructureSaaSBusiness Intelligence

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Hard Skills
Partner Strategy ExecutionRevenue GrowthPerformance ManagementForecastingProgram Governance
Soft Skills
Communication SkillsNegotiation SkillsPresentation SkillsMentoring
Tools & Technologies
CRMDashboards
Industry Keywords
CybersecurityNetworkingManaged Service ModelsNordicsBenelux

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudCyber Security

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Define and execute Cloudflare’s partner ecosystem strategy and annual business plan for Northern Europe
  • Coordinate partners across global systems integrators, regional service providers, managed service providers, resellers, distributors, cloud partners, and technology alliances
  • Integrate partner planning with territory planning, account mapping, pipeline reviews, forecasting, campaigns, and quarterly business reviews
  • Identify how partners can accelerate customer acquisition, expansion, technical adoption, and customer value
  • Establish governance and operating cadences across Sales, Account Executives, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Marketing, Operations, and Partner teams
  • Build executive relationships with priority partners and develop joint business plans, investment cases, market-development initiatives, and growth commitments
  • Create focused partner coverage and go-to-market models across NEUR markets
  • Drive partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline through account planning, demand generation, marketplace, distribution, industry, and solution plays
  • Oversee partner enablement across Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud, application services, network services, security, and developer platform portfolio
  • Manage partner-program execution, including performance governance, compliance, certifications, MDF, incentives, and return on investment
  • Use business intelligence and performance data to assess ecosystem coverage, productivity, pipeline, conversion, and forecast risk
  • Represent the Partner organization in NEUR leadership and communicate priorities, dependencies, risks, and results to EMEA leadership
  • Mentor partner managers and cross-functional colleagues and improve partner engagement standards

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience in partner management, channel sales, alliances, SaaS, cloud infrastructure, networking, or cybersecurity, including experience at principal, regional lead, or director level
  • Required experience managing partners and driving commercial outcomes in the Nordics and/or Benelux
  • Strong understanding of the region’s business cultures, routes to market, and partner communities
  • Proven success designing and executing multi-country partner strategies delivering measurable partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue growth
  • Ability to coordinate diverse partner ecosystems with direct-sales territories, account strategies, and forecasting processes
  • Experience influencing C-level executives and building joint business plans
  • Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, networking, SaaS, cybersecurity architectures, and partner-led or managed-service models
  • Experience leading cross-functional operating cadences in a matrixed organization
  • Expertise in partner segmentation, coverage design, enablement, performance management, program governance, and incentive investment
  • Strong analytical skills using CRM, partner-performance data, dashboards, and business intelligence
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
  • English fluency required
  • Ability to travel 30–50% across NEUR, with occasional travel to other Cloudflare offices and partner events
  • Experience leading organizational change, partner transformation, or new operating models across a multi-country ecosystem
  • Proficiency in a Nordic, Dutch, or French language is an advantage

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Opportunity to work at Cloudflare, which runs a large-scale global network protecting and accelerating Internet applications
  • In-person interview opportunity/stage for candidates progressing to offer (not a compensation benefit)