Job Summary 

The Business Support Analyst (Partner Central) will manage and maintain the Partner portal on Salesforce.com Community Cloud software, where partners log in centrally to register deals, complete training, and access key product and program information. 

Responsibilities 

• Own and manage the operational support and business administrative maintenance of the Partner Portal on Salesforce.com Community Cloud and Sales Cloud 

• Maintain standard operational procedures and processes around operational support and admin activities such as: content and asset management, partner program applications, partner directory, and user setup  

• Engage and work effectively with Internal stakeholders (such as Partner Programs, Partner Marketing, Channel Operations) for requests and changes required for Partner portal – such as changes to content on pages, uploading images, updating documents, announcements, etc. 

• Work closely with support staff/advisor to trouble shoot issues, cases coming in from Internal Equinix stakeholders/External Partners and proactively resolve them within SLA/SLO, while keeping Customer satisfaction and service top of mind 

• Drive resolution of system changes with IT when system issues arise 

• Maintain all documentation/FAQs around standard operational procedures/processes/protocols and administrative activities

• Manage key reports and dashboards around operational KPIs (for QBRs, Monthly Usage Metrics, etc).  Guide support team on how to generate operational reports 

• Manage the overall language translation process for updating of strings, text, etc. to 5 languages by working with translation vendor, internal reviewers

• Perform support assistance for special projects and initiatives that involve assistance around user acceptance testing, regression testing, and post-go live support 

• Maintain regression testing test cases and perform regression testing scenarios when system changes occur 

• Ability to backup all support activities as needed. Escalates internally or obtains management approvals for any process variance or changes in standard operational procedures 

Qualifications 

• At least 3 years relevant professional experience, Bachelors degree or higher, with technical experience preferred

• Experience with sales processes ranging from lead, deal/oppty management, partner training and enablement, and quote to cash processes 

• Analytical mindset with drive/desire to improve the Partner portal experience in “product owner” mindset

• Unwavering Customer success mentality that contributes to Partner’s perception of Equinix’s customer support and trusted partner for internal stakeholders. Ability to troubleshoot issues and assess business criticality/impact when cases/inquiries arise

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to interact effectively with internal and external Partners 

• Savvy with online tools and quickness to adopt new processes, tools, systems.  Desired experience in JIRA, ServiceNow, HTML as well

• Experience (desirable) in Agile methodology for system enhancements, process support, generating data/metrics, and systems support 

• Experience (desirable) in Salesforce.com Sales Cloud, Community Cloud or comparable CRM systems or Customer/Partner Portals 

• Experience (desirable) working with external Partner or Customers in a technology environment, dealing with tools/systems 

• Excellent MS Office skills (Word, Excel.) 

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