Microsoft Alliance Manager, UK&I
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Description
Pax8 is looking for a Microsoft Alliance Manager, UK & Ireland to manage and grow our strategic relationship with Microsoft in-region
Based at our Bristol hub (hybrid), you’ll lead the partnership cadence, from monthly performance rhythms through to quarterly business reviews, while coordinating cross‑functional execution across Sales, GTM, Marketing, and Leadership.
You’ll be the conduit between Pax8 and Microsoft; driving joint business planning, unlocking funding and incentives, influencing GTM priorities, and helping our partners win across Azure, Security, and Copilot. This isn’t a role where you sit on the side lines maintaining relationships; it’s one where you actively grow them.
Your Day To Day Includes
🤝 Owning the Microsoft relationship across UK & Ireland: build trust, maintain senior stakeholder relationships, and keep Pax8 top of mind in-region
Run the partnership cadence: lead monthly performance/KPI rhythms and support/drive quarterly business reviews with Microsoft
🧑Lead joint business planning
Based at our Bristol hub (hybrid), you’ll lead the partnership cadence, from monthly performance rhythms through to quarterly business reviews, while coordinating cross‑functional execution across Sales, GTM, Marketing, and Leadership.
You’ll be the conduit between Pax8 and Microsoft; driving joint business planning, unlocking funding and incentives, influencing GTM priorities, and helping our partners win across Azure, Security, and Copilot. This isn’t a role where you sit on the side lines maintaining relationships; it’s one where you actively grow them.
Your Day To Day Includes
🤝 Owning the Microsoft relationship across UK & Ireland: build trust, maintain senior stakeholder relationships, and keep Pax8 top of mind in-region
Run the partnership cadence: lead monthly performance/KPI rhythms and support/drive quarterly business reviews with Microsoft
🧑Lead joint business planning
: align on priorities, mutual goals, and where to focus time for maximum impact.
🤹 Coordinate cross-functional execution: collaborate with Sales, GTM, Marketing and relevant technical teams to deliver on joint plans.
Report progress and insights: share clear updates, performance metrics, risks, and opportunities with internal leadership and Microsoft stakeholders.
Sounds like you? 🧐
Microsoft ecosystem experience: You’ve spent time working with Microsoft, ideally in an alliance, vendor, channel, or GTM role.
Strategic relationship builder: You’re comfortable engaging senior stakeholders, building trust quickly, and using relationships to create momentum and influence outcomes.
Commercially minded operator: You understand how joint planning, co-selling, funding, and incentives translate into real growth, and you know how to turn strategy into action.
Cross-functional connector: You’re at your best sitting between teams, aligning Sales, GTM, Marketing, and technical stakeholders to deliver shared goals.
Clear communicator:
🤹 Coordinate cross-functional execution: collaborate with Sales, GTM, Marketing and relevant technical teams to deliver on joint plans.
Report progress and insights: share clear updates, performance metrics, risks, and opportunities with internal leadership and Microsoft stakeholders.
Sounds like you? 🧐
Microsoft ecosystem experience: You’ve spent time working with Microsoft, ideally in an alliance, vendor, channel, or GTM role.
Strategic relationship builder: You’re comfortable engaging senior stakeholders, building trust quickly, and using relationships to create momentum and influence outcomes.
Commercially minded operator: You understand how joint planning, co-selling, funding, and incentives translate into real growth, and you know how to turn strategy into action.
Cross-functional connector: You’re at your best sitting between teams, aligning Sales, GTM, Marketing, and technical stakeholders to deliver shared goals.
Clear communicator:
You can distil complex conversations into simple updates; sharing progress, risks, and opportunities in a way leaders can act on!
Comfortable with complexity: You’re used to juggling priorities, navigating ambiguity, and adapting as Microsoft or business strategy shifts.
Right to work: You’re a UK resident with a valid and ongoing right to work.
About Pax8
Pax8 is the technology marketplace of the future, linking partners, vendors, and small to midsized businesses (SMBs) through AI-powered insights and comprehensive product support, giving our Partners for the first time a real choice. With a global partner ecosystem of over 35,000 managed service providers, Pax8 empowers SMBs worldwide by providing software and services that unlock their growth potential and enhance their security. Committed to innovating cloud commerce at scale, Pax8 drives customer acquisition and solution consumption across its entire ecosystem.
Our servant leaders put employees first and we are about delivering exceptional employee experience to inspire customer experience.
We are Pax8 where our employee experience meets customer experience - come and be "work happy" with us!
Best Companies:
Comfortable with complexity: You’re used to juggling priorities, navigating ambiguity, and adapting as Microsoft or business strategy shifts.
Right to work: You’re a UK resident with a valid and ongoing right to work.
About Pax8
Pax8 is the technology marketplace of the future, linking partners, vendors, and small to midsized businesses (SMBs) through AI-powered insights and comprehensive product support, giving our Partners for the first time a real choice. With a global partner ecosystem of over 35,000 managed service providers, Pax8 empowers SMBs worldwide by providing software and services that unlock their growth potential and enhance their security. Committed to innovating cloud commerce at scale, Pax8 drives customer acquisition and solution consumption across its entire ecosystem.
Our servant leaders put employees first and we are about delivering exceptional employee experience to inspire customer experience.
We are Pax8 where our employee experience meets customer experience - come and be "work happy" with us!
Best Companies:
Awarded Number 50 in the UKs Best Companies
Our Journey from the US to EMEA: https://www.pax8.com/blog/office-opening-bristol/
Get a feel for our progress, culture and how we constantly strive to be better and do better:
We encourage you to apply for a role at Pax8 even if you don’t meet 100% of the bullet points! We cultivate an environment where we value and encourage a diverse range of perspectives.
We review and acknowledge every application using real humans - please look out for a response from us to your application in your inbox but check spam too!
Salary & Benefits
Our Journey from the US to EMEA: https://www.pax8.com/blog/office-opening-bristol/
Get a feel for our progress, culture and how we constantly strive to be better and do better:
- Best Companies: Number 50 in the UK’s Best Companies
- Taste our values & culture here: Pax8 and our people
- Check our HR Leaders people ethos here: Our People and Culture Team
- See our progress in Awards: Spotlight Awards
- Our Journey from the US to EMEA: Pax8 UK HQ - Bristol Office Opening
- Our CEO Scott Chasin: Exciting Times - meet our new CEO
- UK website: Pax8 UK
- EU website: Pax8 EU
We encourage you to apply for a role at Pax8 even if you don’t meet 100% of the bullet points! We cultivate an environment where we value and encourage a diverse range of perspectives.
We review and acknowledge every application using real humans - please look out for a response from us to your application in your inbox but check spam too!
Salary & Benefits
- Basic Salary up to £85,000k gross per annum
- Bonus scheme
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Dedicated time for training and personal development
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
- Private healthcare covered by Bupa
- Dental Plan covered by Bupa
- Health & Wellbeing coaching support
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection
- Royal London Workplace pension scheme
- Pax8 Cycle to Work Support Scheme Available
- Share Options after qualifying period
- Tech set up to support great home office working
- Remote working
- 9-5:30 working hours
At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust‑based relationships — starting with how we hire. To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change.
By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you’re applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about — we’re excited to meet you.
What’s in it for you?
There’s plenty of scope for a talented individual to progress quickly in this opportunity or to other internal options (internal mobility in 2021 was 38%) as we grow and expand. We have our very own internal academy (the Pax8 University) for personal development plus access to Learning & Development specialist trainers and extensive "born in the cloud" mentors available for your growth. We’ll provide the opportunity stretch and projects to help you thrive and see exactly what you need to achieve to get to the next level. You might even get to exchange work location one day with your colleagues in the USA or across Europe but even if you can't travel right now we guarantee you'll still have fun!
Why Pax8?
Our mission is to build the technology marketplace of the future. We are a fast-growing, dynamic, and high-energy organisation with a start-up feel, allowing you to make a meaningful impact on the business. Culture is important to us, and at Pax8, it’s business, and it IS personal. We are passionate, creative, and unconventional. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best! We Elev8 each other. We Advoc8 for our partners. We Innov8
Why Pax8?
Our mission is to build the technology marketplace of the future. We are a fast-growing, dynamic, and high-energy organisation with a start-up feel, allowing you to make a meaningful impact on the business. Culture is important to us, and at Pax8, it’s business, and it IS personal. We are passionate, creative, and unconventional. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best! We Elev8 each other. We Advoc8 for our partners. We Innov8
continuously. We Celebr8 life.
As part of our hiring process, we are required to undertake pre-employment checks on all candidates that are successful in their application with Pax8. As part of these checks Pax8 will request ID verification, reference requests and qualification checks (additional checks will be completed for UK candidates only, such as criminal and financial). All checks are completed by our third-party provider, First Advantage.
Once checks have been completed all candidates will receive a copy for their records.
Equal Opportunities
Pax8 are an equal opportunities employer and welcome individuals who are in possession of the appropriate requirements to work within the UK. Offered individuals will be asked to undertake identity, security compliance and reference checks. Your privacy is important to us. Your data will be held in accordance with GDPR best practices and processed only in accordance with our recruiting processes.
Job Applicant Privacy Notice (https://www.pax8.com/en-us/terms/job-applicant-privacy-notice/)
As part of our hiring process, we are required to undertake pre-employment checks on all candidates that are successful in their application with Pax8. As part of these checks Pax8 will request ID verification, reference requests and qualification checks (additional checks will be completed for UK candidates only, such as criminal and financial). All checks are completed by our third-party provider, First Advantage.
Once checks have been completed all candidates will receive a copy for their records.
Equal Opportunities
Pax8 are an equal opportunities employer and welcome individuals who are in possession of the appropriate requirements to work within the UK. Offered individuals will be asked to undertake identity, security compliance and reference checks. Your privacy is important to us. Your data will be held in accordance with GDPR best practices and processed only in accordance with our recruiting processes.
Job Applicant Privacy Notice (https://www.pax8.com/en-us/terms/job-applicant-privacy-notice/)