Daniel Haywood

Strategic Partnership lead working with Start-ups, Unicorns and Software Development Companies

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

About

Business Leader, Sales Management, Digital Transformation, Innovation. Specialties: Unicorns, Start-ups, Solution Selling, Cloud Computing, Strategic Thinking, Enterprise customers.

Experience

  • Microsoft (Full-time · 5 yrs 5 mos)
    • Strategic Partnerships Director
      Jul 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

    • Business & Partnership lead working with Start-ups, Unicorns and Digital Natives
      Mar 2021 - Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • FA Qualified Referee at Leicestershire & Rutland County FA
    Aug 2019 - Present · 7 yrs

    FA qualified Level 4 referee

  • Senior Sales Engineer - UK Enterprise at VMware
    Jul 2018 - Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Helping enterprise customers on their journey to business transformation through hybrid and public cloud.

  • Microsoft (7 yrs 7 mos)
    • Global Retail Technology Strategist
      Jun 2014 - Jul 2018 · 4 yrs 2 mos

      Global Retail Technology Strategist focussing on product roadmap, enterprise strategy, cloud consumption and technology adoption. My role is focussed on understanding and supporting Microsoft's leading global retail customer's (Tesco, M&S and Sainsbury) IT strategy through the management of senior stakeholder relationships and managing a virtual team of Microsoft technical and sales specialists. Member of Microsoft Top Talent team and also part of the Senior Tech Leadership Program.

    • Senior Account Technology Strategist - Commercial
      Jun 2012 - Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Account Technology Strategist working within the commercial sector and focussed on Retail, Communications and Media accounts. Measured on revenue, customer satisfaction and software deployment.

    • Strategic ISV & Partner Manager - Digital Marketing Platform Group EMEA
      Jan 2011 - Jun 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Working within the Digital Marketing Platform Group, my role focused on working with Microsoft's mid-size and enterprise customers, helping them build out their digital strategy. My time was split developing relationships, devising go to market strategies for partners, ISV’s, digital agencies and customers and also managing and driving sales pipeline.

  • Technical Pre Sales Cloud Consultant at Outsourcery
    Jun 2009 - Feb 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos

    I worked as a technical pre sales consultant, specialising in Microsoft technologies as part of a cloud strategy, I have a thorough understanding of the core productivity technologies and spent my time working on a wide range of hosted enterprise level projects as technical lead. I also spent several months working as a product manager for SharePoint, increasing business knowledge and expertise and driving revenue.