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Global Channel Development Lead, Education

Apple· Sales and Business Development
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Hybrid (London)Full-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Role within Apple’s central Education Channel and Partnerships team responsible for driving a globally scalable channel strategy and enabling countries to build and accelerate their channel businesses.

Responsibilities

  • Design and own the global channel strategy framework, ensuring it is simple, scalable, and adaptable across markets rather than bespoke per country.
  • Partner directly with country and regional teams worldwide to help them build, launch, and accelerate their channel and partner ecosystems.
  • Define and drive the global VAD strategy, including partner structure, engagement model, and the end-state operating model, presented as an aspiration for how partners run their business.
  • Help drive the strategy and rollout of the Partner CRM platform for Education across EMEIA and other regions, coordinating with local teams on adoption and change management.
  • Act as a trusted advisor and thought partner to country channel leads, bringing best practice, structure, and commercial rigour to local channel plans.
  • Build and deliver executive-ready presentations and narratives that communicate strategy, progress, and commercial impact to senior stakeholders.
  • Lead by example: model the behaviours, standards, and ways of working expected of country teams, demonstrating credibility through action rather than directive.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with ecosystem partners, legal, finance, and sales & marketing teams to ensure strategy translates into measurable channel acceleration.

Qualifications

  • Strong communication and storytelling skills
  • Excellent presentation skills, with the ability to craft clear, visually engaging, top-down narratives and chronological structure
  • Deep understanding of indirect/channel business models, VAD structures, and partner ecosystems
  • Comfortable operating globally across diverse markets and cultures, balancing a consistent global framework with local market nuance
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, able to build trust and alignment across central and country teams without direct authority
  • Commercially minded, comfortable using data to make the business case for channel investment

Skills

Required:Global channel strategyVAD strategyPartner ecosystem development
Nice to have:CRM strategy and rollout
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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