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The Role We are looking for a dynamic and self-motivated Account Director to join our Client Services team. The Account Director will be responsible for driving client quality and continuous improvement, while expanding existing client relationships. The role will involve ensuring clear communications between our clients and Operations, delivery of governance communications, and delivery of weekly, monthly and quarterly business reviews. Ideal candidates for this role will be flexible with changing and challenging workloads, and be able to demonstrate success in managing a client in this capacity, understanding their expectations, and delivering change in order to improve performance. Applicants should be able to demonstrate solid experience within client services, from either an account management, operations, project management or wider outsourcing perspective. Essentially, the Account Director will be responsible for ensuring our clients receive all the services we are contracted to provide and is accountable for: • Client Satisfaction, • Clear and transparent internal financial awareness, • Strong governance, • Management of account managers (where applicable), • Delivery of gross margin commitments Responsibilities • Senior day-to-day client contact, • Financial forecasting, • Input top line sales and direct costs taken from operations into contribution reporting where applicable, • Tracking budget vs actual, • Monthly GM tracking, • Full action plans where GM falls below target, • To identify Farming & Growth opportunities and pass these to the VP Client Services, • Ensuring clear communications between the client and internal stakeholders, • Contractual commitments and deliverables, • Contract Change Notes / Variations, • Strong governance – ensuring a clear audit of decisions, • Driving continuous improvement agenda, working in partnership with TP Digital colleagues, • Overseeing production and accuracy of MI, • Invoicing and accounts receivable / aged debt, • Working with Operations on tactical delivery / decisions of the account running, • Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly review packs, • Delivery of weekly, monthly and quarterly business reviews, • Monthly / quarterly KSAT dip checks, • Implementing client account plans, • Change control Candidate criteria - what we are looking for: Experience • Solid experience in client services from either an account management, operations, project management or wider outsourcing perspective, • Previous experience managing a client in this capacity, understanding their expectations, and delivering change in order to improve performance, • Ability to demonstrate how you have added value to a client’s business / service provision (client centricity), • An understanding of the metrics used and the pricing structure in operation within the contact centre environment, • Experience of financial forecasting and invoicing, • Competencies and specific skills, • Solid understanding of how Account Management can influence achievement of business objectives, • An understanding of how to work proactively and positively in partnership with both operations and client priorities, • Excellent professional interpersonal skills., • The ability to build rapport and trust with clients and colleagues., • The ability to understand and communicate client requirements with a clear, positive and customer-focused message, • Ability to influence and negotiate with others, • High level of numeracy and literacy, • Committed, enthusiastic, positive, resourceful and resilient

As a General Manager (GM), you take the lead of our busy buildings. You’ll work opposite shifts to the Assistant Manager.

About the Role Fivetran offers data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies and we are scaling our co-selling across our Strategic Partnerships with Snowflake and Databricks. We are looking for a Technology Partner Sales Manager to own Fivetran co-selling alongside Snowflake and Databricks. This role helps to accelerate our growing sales engagements across these partners resulting in an improved customer experience and mutual revenue growth. This is a full-time, remote position based out of London. Technologies You’ll Use Salesforce, Crossbeam, Suger, Google Docs are your primary tools and technologies you’ll be using in the role. What You’ll Do Own partner sales development with Snowflake + Databricks across EMEA, reporting directly to GM EMEA Actively engage with sales leadership at Snowflake & Databricks to set up QBRs, Happy Hours, Team Trainings, Regional Events Manage the relationships across Snowflake & Databricks to ensure 3rd line, 2nd line, and 1st line managers are meeting regularly with Fivetran leadership to keep momentum and close alignment on deals and GTM strategies Collaborate with Fivetran Sales to successfully execute on a "top down, bottoms up" motion with CDW partners Consistently review open pipeline of Snowflake & Databricks (via Crossbeam) to identify where Fivetran AEs are not engaged Train Snowflake & Databricks teams on "Why Fivetran". This will also be supported by Sales Build relationships with senior partner sales leaders, facilitate engagements and own the regional technology partner messaging and co-selling execution Work with global Technology Partner Managers to understand co-sell processes specific to each partner. Identify ways to improve support and scale across each partner such as, sales facing resources, system automation and analytical insights useful in successful partner engagements Proactively identify top accounts and customers for Fivetran sales teams to partner with at Snowflake and Databricks. Define, maintain and improve co-sell operational components including sales facing resources, system automation along with analytical insights useful in successful partner engagements Connect the dots between Fivetran sales and our partner sales teams to ensure the Fivetran sales team is solution selling with our partners and delivering a delightful customer experience Focus on growing revenue growth and pipeline creation across both Fivetran and our Technology partners in the region Skills We’re Looking For 7-10 years of experience in sales, partnerships, alliances, or business development, with a strong focus on enterprise-level engagements Exceptional strategic thinking and planning abilities, with a history of driving business results. Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with an ability to engage various stakeholders. Proficient in using CRM tools to manage partner interactions. Proven leadership skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders. Extremely organized, able to juggle lots of things at once while not letting anything drop and thinking about how to scale and service a growing group of Fivetran sales executives. #LI-HYBRID #LI-#LI-SG1

Note: Partly is headquartered in the UK, with a Product and Engineering base in Christchurch, and an early presence in San Francisco. If you are not based in London, we will fly you to our London office for 1 week per quarter for our “Season Openers” (we pay for your travel and accommodation). Partly's mission is to connect the world's parts and we're doing that by building the first global platform for replacement parts, starting with auto parts. Our big vision is to accelerate the world toward a sustainable future where anyone can fix anything. Founded by ex-Rocket Lab engineers, we utilise cutting-edge technology to solve challenging but exciting problems that make a huge impact in a $1.9 trillion industry. We've more than tripled our team over the last 12 months and expect to double in size again over the coming 12 months. We're a global team spanning both Europe and Australasia. We provide a scalable digital infrastructure solution to some of the world's largest businesses and the most exciting startups. Partly's solutions are integrated across hundreds of companies globally, providing the backbone for cataloguing and managing parts online. Our investors in Blackbird Ventures (Canva, CultureAmp etc.), Square Peg, Octopus Ventures, Icehouse, Peter Beck (Rocket Lab), Akshay Kothari (Notion Co-Founder) and Dylan Field (Figma Co-Founder). We're continuing to build a world-class team and ensuring Partly is a place where people can do the best work of their lives. We're proud of the culture we've built at Partly, and our _ are lived throughout every experience. Strategic Account Manager The Strategic Account Manager owns post-sale success for parts suppliers on the Partly Network and reports directly to the GM of Europe. This role is responsible for ensuring suppliers achieve measurable commercial and operational value from Partly’s infrastructure. It sits at the intersection of supplier relationships, product delivery, and engineering execution, and requires deep ownership of supplier issues in a fast-moving, evolving product environment. Own strategic supplier relationships Develop trusted, long-term partnerships with parts suppliers, acting as the primary post-sale owner and point of accountability. Ensure strong adoption, retention, and long-term value realisation from Partly. Own supplier issues end-to-end Take full ownership of supplier issues from initial report through root cause analysis, resolution, and follow-up. Work closely with product and engineering teams to drive issues to ground rather than simply escalating them. Translate supplier problems into product execution Convert supplier pain points and operational challenges into clear, actionable product requirements. Produce written problem statements, reproduction steps, and expected outcomes to enable fast, effective execution by engineering. Lead onboarding and ongoing success Own the end-to-end post-sale journey including onboarding, implementation coordination, and ongoing success management. Ensure suppliers are set up to operate successfully on Partly infrastructure from day one. Drive measurable business outcomes Develop a deep understanding of each supplier’s KPIs, revenue drivers, and operational constraints. Through regular reviews, identify and execute opportunities where Partly can unlock incremental value, efficiency, or growth. Operate with urgency in an evolving environment Work effectively in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment where product capabilities and processes are still developing. Maintain momentum, prioritise effectively, and drive progress despite incomplete information. Build scalable success foundations Design and evolve lightweight processes, tooling, and documentation that allow supplier success to scale without compromising accountability or responsiveness. Senior stakeholder management Comfortable working with senior leaders at complex organisations. Able to manage expectations, navigate ambiguity, and maintain trust during periods of change or product instability. Strong communicator across technical and commercial audiences Able to engage credibly with engineers while clearly articulating technical issues and solutions in commercial terms to supplier stakeholders. Experience working with technical or infrastructure products Comfortable operating close to technical systems and workflows. Able to understand platform behaviour, diagnose issues, and validate solutions in collaboration with engineering teams. Strong prioritisation and ownership mindset Demonstrates clear ownership, bias to action, and sound judgment. Able to balance supplier advocacy with internal priorities and drive alignment across teams. Commercial and operational acumen Understands how supplier businesses operate and how technology impacts revenue, cost, and efficiency. Able to articulate ROI and map Partly’s infrastructure to supplier objectives. Experience in the automotive aftermarket, parts distribution, or supply-chain ecosystems. Familiarity with cataloguing, fitment, or global parts standards is advantageous. High trust, low process and no bureaucracy. We hire exceptional people whose judgment we trust. This means we proactively remove any process or rules that slow us down (for example, our expense policy is simply the “red face test”). Competitive base salary + equity. We offer competitive salaries and generous equity options for all full-time employees, ensuring everyone shares in the financial upside when we win. Flexible working hours. Choose when to work based on what time you’re most effective (no mandatory or set hours). We combine flexibility with an office-first approach (in cities where we have critical mass, i.e. London, Christchurch, Auckland). Focus Days. Two days per week, with zero meetings, dedicated solely to uninterrupted deep work Take time when you need it. We don’t ask questions or care if people have a negative leave balance. We work extremely hard and trust our team to take the time they need to recharge. Learn from the best. Whether it’s during a ‘Lunch n Learn’ or hearing from a unicorn CEO at a Fireside chat, you’ll have the opportunity to constantly learn from the world’s best. Quarterly season openers across the UK and EU. Connect regularly at the nearest centralised location for a week of collaboration, big-picture planning and team events. Annual global offsite in New Zealand. Travel with the rest of the UK and EU team as we gather and connect for 1-2 weeks at our product and engineering hub in Christchurch. Team connection. Monthly team lunches, celebrating our wins, happy hours and more! Parental leave and flexible return to work. Do what works for you. Primary carers can return with 4-day weeks (on 100% pay for the first 12 weeks). Secondary carers get 10 days full pay. Payroll Giving: We encourage generous giving and donate to the high-impact charities you support CycleSaver: UK employees can now save up to 47% on Lime, Forest, Beryl, or Santander cycle subscriptions through CycleSaver, enjoying the health benefits of cycling to work with flexible, hassle-free monthly plans instead of bike ownership.