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United Kingdom · International Business Global · Principal/Manager (12-16 years)

Senior Manager, Global Partnerships

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  • Experience bandPrincipal/Manager (12-16 years)
  • Direct reports3-8 reports
  • Reports toDirector, International Expansion
  • UK framework levelUsually someone running a function, or a director

Also advertised as Head of International Channels · Global Partner Lead · Director of Business Development (Partnerships)

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1What this role really is

This role is about building and growing our international footprint through strategic alliances and channel partners. You'll be the architect of our global partnership programme, leading a team to find, onboard, and grow relationships that drive significant revenue. It's less about individual deals and more about creating a scalable engine for international growth.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

SalesforceStrategic

Manages integrations (e.g., with Marketo, NetSuite), defines data governance policies for global partner data, architects new objects/fields to support evolving GTM strategies for partners, and reviews team's pipeline health.

ZoomInfo / CognismStrategic

Negotiates enterprise license agreements, evaluates competing data providers for global reach, ensures GDPR/CCPA compliance across all data acquisition activities for the team, and sets standards for prospecting.

Microsoft ExcelStrategic

Oversees the development of complex financial models in Anaplan/Pigment but uses Excel for ad-hoc scenario analysis, board-level summaries of partner performance, and quick-fire P&L projections.

Power BI / TableauStrategic

Governs the enterprise analytics platform for partner data, defines the single source of truth for global channel KPIs, and presents insights on partner performance to the board and senior leadership.

Asana / Monday.comStrategic

Manages a portfolio of strategic international initiatives (e.g., new partner programme launch), allocates team resources based on project ROI, and integrates PM tools with financial planning systems for global projects.

Concur / SAPStrategic

Sets global T&E policies for the team, negotiates corporate rates with airlines/hotels for international travel, and manages the overall T&E budget as part of the departmental P&L for global partnerships.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
Global Partner Programme StrategyN/AN/ADesigns and proposes new programme structures, incentives, and partner tiers for review by Director.
Strategic Partner Selection & OnboardingN/AN/AIdentifies, vets, and recommends strategic partners. Leads negotiation of commercial terms and oversees onboarding process.
Team Hiring & Performance ManagementN/AN/AFull hiring authority for direct reports (BDMs). Conducts performance reviews, sets individual targets, and manages team development.
Channel P&L & Budget AllocationN/AN/AOwns the P&L for global channels (up to £2M). Allocates budget for partner programmes, enablement, and team travel. Seeks approval for major deviations.
Market Entry via PartnersN/AN/ADefines the partner-led GTM strategy for new market entries, working with regional sales and marketing. Recommends specific markets for investment.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Channel Partner Revenue Growth
The year-on-year percentage increase in revenue generated through your global channel partners.
Target · Grow indirect channel revenue by 20% YoY

If channel revenue was £8M last year, we'd expect it to hit £9.6M this year, minimum. You'll need to show how your strategy and team's efforts directly contributed to that uplift.

New Market Revenue Contribution
Revenue generated from new international markets launched or significantly expanded via partnerships under your leadership in the last 24 months.
Target · Achieve >£5M in revenue from newly expanded markets annually

Successfully launching in Japan and securing £6M in revenue through new partners within two years would be a strong indicator. This isn't just about existing markets; it's about breaking new ground.

Channel Pipeline Coverage & Conversion
The ratio of qualified partner pipeline to revenue target, and the rate at which those partner-sourced opportunities close.
Target · Maintain 3x pipeline coverage; improve partner-sourced conversion rate by 10%

If your quarterly target is £2M, you'll need £6M in partner-sourced pipeline. If the conversion rate for partner deals is currently 20%, you'll aim for 22% or more. This shows you're not just creating leads, but good quality ones.

Partner Programme ROI
The return on investment for the resources (people, marketing, incentives) allocated to the global partner programme.
Target · Achieve a minimum 4:1 ROI on programme investment

If we invest £1M in partner enablement, marketing funds, and your team's salaries, we'd expect at least £4M in attributable revenue. You'll need to justify programme costs against the revenue generated.

Partner Satisfaction & Engagement
The overall health and engagement level of our key global partners, measured by their participation in joint activities and feedback.
  • High attendance at partner events, active participation in joint marketing campaigns, positive feedback in partner surveys, proactive engagement from partners on new opportunities, and partners actively recommending us to others. You'll know it's working when partners see us as a true strategic ally, not just another vendor.
Team Development & Retention
The growth and stability of your direct reports, measured by their individual performance, skill development, and retention rates.
  • Your BDMs consistently hitting or exceeding their individual targets, positive feedback in 1-to-1s, successful completion of development plans, low voluntary turnover within your team, and BDMs taking on more complex challenges. Frankly, a good manager builds good people, and that's what we're looking for.
Strategic Influence & Thought Leadership
Your ability to shape the company's international strategy and represent us as a leader in global partnerships.
  • You're regularly consulted by the Director and other senior leaders on international market entry decisions, your insights are sought after for board presentations, you're presenting at industry conferences, and you're seen as the go-to expert for all things global channels. It's about being proactive, not just reactive.
Compliance & Risk Mitigation
Ensuring all global partnership activities adhere to legal, regulatory, and company policies, minimising exposure to risk.
  • Zero critical compliance breaches within your team or partner network, proactive identification and mitigation of potential legal or ethical risks (e.g., FCPA, GDPR), clear documentation of partner due diligence, and your team consistently following established processes. This isn't glamorous, but it's absolutely essential to our global reputation.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Building & Scaling Global Impact

You'll get a real buzz from seeing your team successfully launch a new partner in a challenging market, or from a new partner programme you designed driving significant revenue. You're driven by the idea of expanding our company's footprint across the globe.

Successfully negotiating a master distribution agreement in a new region and then seeing your team onboard and enable 10+ new resellers, leading to £2M in new revenue within 12 months.

Leading & Developing Talent

You'll find satisfaction in mentoring your BDMs, helping them navigate complex international deals, and seeing them grow into stronger business development professionals. Their success is your success.

Coaching a BDM through a tough negotiation with a Japanese partner, helping them understand the cultural nuances, and then seeing them close the deal independently a few weeks later.

Strategic Problem Solving

You love tackling complex, multi-faceted problems, like how to penetrate a highly regulated market or how to incentivise partners in a low-margin region. You're driven by the intellectual challenge of crafting a winning global strategy.

Designing a new partner tiering model that effectively motivates both large, established distributors and smaller, niche integrators across different geographies, leading to increased engagement from both segments.

What frustrates people
  • Juggling conflicting priorities from different regional sales leaders, each wanting their market prioritised.
  • Dealing with legal and compliance complexities that slow down partner onboarding and deal closure in certain countries.
  • The constant pressure to hit global revenue targets while navigating unpredictable geopolitical and economic shifts.
  • Finding truly strategic partners who align with our long-term vision, rather than just transactional resellers.
  • Motivating and managing a distributed team across multiple time zones and cultures, ensuring everyone feels connected and supported.
  • The sheer volume of administrative tasks (approvals, reporting, policy updates) that come with managing a global function and team.
What this role does not give you
  • A predictable 9-to-5 workday with minimal international travel.
  • A role focused purely on individual sales or account management without team leadership.
  • A static environment where strategies remain unchanged for years.
  • Complete autonomy without needing to align with broader company goals or regional leadership.
  • A role where you can avoid complex compliance and legal considerations.

6Who you work with

This role directly impacts our international revenue targets and market penetration. You're building the scalable engine that allows us to enter and grow in new geographies, effectively extending our sales force globally. Your decisions on partner selection and programme structure will have a multi-million pound impact on the company's bottom line and long-term strategic positioning.

Inside the business
  • Regional Sales Directors (EMEA, APAC, LATAM)
  • Product Management Leads
  • Legal & Compliance Team
  • Marketing Leadership
  • Finance Business Partners
Outside the business
  • Strategic Channel Partners (Resellers, Distributors, Integrators)
  • Key Alliance Partners
  • Industry Associations
  • Potential Acquisition Targets

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • Proven track record of 8-12 years in international business development or channel management, with at least 3-5 years in a leadership or senior individual contributor role.
  • Demonstrable experience in designing, launching, and managing successful channel partner programmes across multiple international regions.
  • Experience leading and mentoring a team of business development or sales professionals, ideally in a distributed or international context.
  • A strong understanding of global GTM strategies, market entry frameworks, and cross-cultural business practices.
  • Experience negotiating complex commercial agreements with international partners, including legal and financial terms.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage a P&L or significant budget responsibility within a business development or sales function.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Salesforce Ecosystem & AppExchange Strategy

Salesforce is continually expanding its capabilities and ecosystem. As a leader, you need to understand how new Salesforce features (e.g., AI Cloud, industry-specific clouds) and AppExchange solutions can enhance our partner programme, streamline operations, and provide better insights for your team and partners.

Salesforce AI Cloud & Einstein Copilot · Partner Relationship Management (PRM) Solutions · Data Cloud Integration for Partner Insights

  • This month: Follow Salesforce's official release notes and attend key webinars on new features relevant to partner management.
  • Next 3 months: Research 2-3 leading PRM solutions on the AppExchange and assess their potential fit for our global programme.
  • Next 6 months: Work with our Salesforce Admin to pilot a new AI feature (e.g., Einstein Copilot for meeting summaries) with your team.
  • Next 12 months: Develop a roadmap for how we can best use the evolving Salesforce ecosystem to enhance our global partner strategy.

Quick win: Subscribe to Salesforce's 'Partner Community' updates to stay informed on new features and best practices for channel management.

Advanced Analytics & Visualisation for Global KPIs

As our global data grows, simply building dashboards isn't enough. You'll need to drive deeper insights from Power BI/Tableau, using advanced analytical techniques to identify trends, predict partner performance, and tell compelling data stories to senior leadership and the board.

DAX for Complex Global Calculations · Geospatial Analysis for Market Visualisation · Automated Anomaly Detection

  • This quarter: Complete an online course on advanced DAX or Tableau calculations.
  • Next 6 months: Lead a project to redesign our global partner performance dashboard, incorporating new metrics and visualisations.
  • Next 12 months: Explore integrating external economic data (e.g., GDP growth, inflation) into your dashboards to provide richer context for partner performance.
  • Month 18: Present a 'state of the global channels' report to the board, entirely driven by your advanced analytics.

Quick win: Review your existing Power BI dashboards and identify one key metric that could be made more insightful with a more complex DAX formula or a new visualisation type.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly attend international business development or channel partner conferences (e.g., Channel Partners Conference, Global Partner Summit) to stay abreast of industry trends and network.
  • Participate in leadership development programmes, especially those focused on leading distributed or multicultural teams.
  • Engage with industry associations focused on international trade or specific regional markets (e.g., British Chambers of Commerce overseas).
  • Seek out mentorship from senior leaders who have successfully scaled businesses internationally.
  • Continuously educate yourself on evolving global data privacy laws and anti-bribery regulations through webinars and specialist courses.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: AI-Driven Strategic Market Prediction

Traditional market analysis can be slow and reactive. AI and machine learning are now capable of processing vast amounts of global economic, social, and political data to identify emerging market opportunities and risks far faster than human teams. Leaders who can use these tools will make more proactive, data-backed decisions.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

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The rising capability

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AI-Driven Strategic Market Prediction

Traditional market analysis can be slow and reactive. AI and machine learning are now capable of processing vast amounts of global economic, social, and political data to identify emerging market opportunities and risks far faster than human teams. Leaders who can use these tools will make more proactive, data-backed decisions.

  • Predictive Analytics for Market Entry
  • Geopolitical Risk Modelling
  • AI-Powered Competitor Monitoring
  • Sentiment Analysis for Partner Feedback

Advanced Data Governance for Global Partnerships

With increasing data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, LGPD in Brazil, etc.) and the sheer volume of data generated by global partnerships, robust data governance isn't just a compliance issue—it's a strategic imperative. Poor data hygiene or breaches can lead to massive fines and reputational damage, especially at a global scale.

  • Data Lineage & Audit Trails
  • Cross-Border Data Transfer Mechanisms
  • Data Minimisation & Retention Policies
  • Automated Compliance Monitoring

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Market Opportunity Analysis (Strategic)
  • Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy (Global)
  • Cross-Cultural Negotiation (Advanced)
  • Pipeline Management & Forecasting (Global)
  • Competitive Intelligence (Strategic)
  • Channel Partner Due Diligence & Programme Design

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    International Business Development Manager

    3-5 years in this role

    Skills to master

    • Deep expertise in a specific international region, proven ability to hit individual revenue targets through partners, strong negotiation skills, and early experience in mentoring junior team members.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Consistently exceeding individual partner revenue targets for 2+ years.
    • Successfully launched and grown partnerships in 1-2 new countries.
    • Demonstrated ability to independently manage complex partner relationships and resolve conflicts.
    • Proactively taken on informal leadership roles, such as training new hires or leading cross-regional initiatives.
  2. 2

    Senior Channel Sales Manager (Regional)

    4-6 years in this role

    Skills to master

    • Extensive experience managing a portfolio of channel partners within a specific large region (e.g., EMEA), strong understanding of regional market dynamics, and a track record of growing indirect revenue.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Achieved significant year-on-year growth in channel revenue for a major region.
    • Developed and executed successful regional channel marketing and enablement programmes.
    • Built and maintained strong relationships with key regional distributors and resellers.
    • Demonstrated strong commercial acumen and ability to manage regional budgets.
  3. 3

    Strategic Alliances Manager (Global)

    5-7 years in this role

    Skills to master

    • Experience managing complex, non-revenue generating strategic alliances (e.g., technology partnerships, co-development deals) with global players, strong cross-functional influence, and a deep understanding of ecosystem strategy.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully launched and managed 2-3 significant global strategic alliances.
    • Proven ability to work across product, engineering, and marketing teams to deliver joint solutions.
    • Strong understanding of the broader industry ecosystem and how partnerships create competitive advantage.
    • Excellent executive communication and influence skills.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey from Senior Manager, Global Partnerships, is really about expanding your scope and impact, moving from leading a function to shaping entire business units or even the enterprise's global strategy. The opportunities are vast, and we're here to help you build the career you envision.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

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The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

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The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Senior Manager, Global Partnerships is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Developing and Managing External PartnershipsLevel 7

Applied to your work in Senior Manager, Global Partnerships

By completing this unit, learners will be able to identify suitable external partners, understand how to develop a partnership, and know how to manage it effectively at an organisational level.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
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One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
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Evidenced on your work in Senior Manager, Global Partnerships

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Channel Partner Revenue GrowthThe year-on-year percentage increase in revenue generated through your global channel partners.If channel revenue was £8M last year, we'd expect it to hit £9.6M this year, minimum. You'll need to show how your strategy and team's efforts directly contributed to that uplift.Grow indirect channel revenue by 20% YoY
  • New Market Revenue ContributionRevenue generated from new international markets launched or significantly expanded via partnerships under your leadership in the last 24 months.Successfully launching in Japan and securing £6M in revenue through new partners within two years would be a strong indicator. This isn't just about existing markets; it's about breaking new ground.Achieve >£5M in revenue from newly expanded markets annually
  • Channel Pipeline Coverage & ConversionThe ratio of qualified partner pipeline to revenue target, and the rate at which those partner-sourced opportunities close.If your quarterly target is £2M, you'll need £6M in partner-sourced pipeline. If the conversion rate for partner deals is currently 20%, you'll aim for 22% or more. This shows you're not just creating leads, but good quality ones.Maintain 3x pipeline coverage; improve partner-sourced conversion rate by 10%
  • Partner Programme ROIThe return on investment for the resources (people, marketing, incentives) allocated to the global partner programme.If we invest £1M in partner enablement, marketing funds, and your team's salaries, we'd expect at least £4M in attributable revenue. You'll need to justify programme costs against the revenue generated.Achieve a minimum 4:1 ROI on programme investment
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Senior Manager, Global Partnerships to Director, International Expansion, and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 6 · in progressAI Fluency→ Director, International Expansion→ your design
Where this takes you

Your journey from Senior Manager, Global Partnerships, is really about expanding your scope and impact, moving from leading a function to shaping entire business units or even the enterprise's global strategy. The opportunities are vast, and we're here to help you build the career you envision.

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Senior Manager, Global Partnerships
  • Market Opportunity Analysis (Strategic)
  • Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy (Global)
  • Cross-Cultural Negotiation (Advanced)
  • Pipeline Management & Forecasting (Global)
  • Competitive Intelligence (Strategic)
  • Channel Partner Due Diligence & Programme Design
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14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Senior Manager, Global Partnerships is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Director, International Expansion

    3-5 years in Senior Manager, Global Partnerships role

    From L5 to L6

    • Defining multi-year international market entry/exit strategies.
    • Overseeing end-to-end international GTM execution across all channels (direct and indirect).
    • Managing relationships with C-suite and board members regarding international performance.
    • Leading significant transformational programmes for the international business unit.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, managing a global team and building partnerships across continents is incredibly demanding. There's a mountain of research, outreach, and coordination. But what if you could give your team back hours every week, letting them focus on what truly matters: building relationships and closing deals? That's where AI comes in.

We're not just talking about automating simple tasks; we're talking about fundamentally changing how your team identifies opportunities, understands markets, and communicates across cultures. Imagine your BDMs spending less time on grunt work and more time on strategic engagement. This isn't science fiction; it's happening now.

Optimise Team Prospecting with AI

Use AI tools like Clay or Apollo.io to automatically build highly targeted lists of potential partners or clients for your BDMs. You can set complex criteria (e.g., 'Find all manufacturing companies in Poland with 200-500 employees using SAP and hiring for logistics roles'). The AI then enriches this data with verified contact info, saving your team countless hours of manual research.

Accelerate Strategic Market Intelligence

Feed multiple lengthy market research reports, industry news articles, and competitor earning calls into a large language model (like ChatGPT-4 or Claude). Ask it to synthesise the information, identify the top 3 opportunities and threats, and generate a SWOT analysis for our company in a specific market. This gives you and your team a strategic head start, faster than any human could manage.

Automate Pre-Meeting Cultural Briefings

Before a crucial call with a potential partner in a new country, use an AI assistant to generate a one-page briefing for your BDMs. Prompt: 'Generate a business briefing for a meeting with a CEO in Seoul, South Korea. Include key business etiquette, common negotiation tactics, current economic news, and a background on their company.' This ensures your team is always culturally prepared.

Culturally-Tuned Outreach & Communication

Have your team draft a standard outreach email, then use AI to adapt it for different cultural contexts. Prompt: 'Rewrite this direct, concise email for a more formal, relationship-focused audience in Japan. Then, rewrite it for a warmer, more expressive audience in Brazil.' This ensures your team's first impression is always the right one, building rapport from day one.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Senior Manager, Global Partnerships?

Common routes in include International Business Development Manager (3-5 years in this role), Senior Channel Sales Manager (Regional) (4-6 years in this role) and Strategic Alliances Manager (Global) (5-7 years in this role). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Senior Manager, Global Partnerships progress to?

This role can lead on to Director, International Expansion (3-5 years in Senior Manager, Global Partnerships role), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Senior Manager, Global Partnerships in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 6 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Senior Manager, Global Partnerships?

Increasingly, AI-Driven Strategic Market Prediction and Advanced Data Governance for Global Partnerships. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

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There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

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Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 1 national skill standard. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Senior Manager, Global Partnerships: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 6

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in International Business Global

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll develop in this role—global GTM strategy, cross-cultural leadership, P&L management, and strategic partnerships—are highly transferable. You could move into leadership roles in other global SaaS companies, technology firms, or even into management consulting specialising in international expansion. Your expertise in navigating diverse markets will be in high demand.

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