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**Title:** Manager, Education Strategy & Partnerships

**Company Name:** Fluke Corporation

**Job Location:** Everett, Washington or remote

Position Summary

The Manager of Education Strategy & Partnerships leads the growth of Fluke’s North America Education Partnership initiative—driving long-term brand affinity by embedding Fluke tools and curricula into vocational, apprenticeship, and STEM programs. This role owns partnership strategy, revenue outcomes, and executive-level relationships to ensure alignment with commercial objectives.

You will design, launch, and scale programs that expand Fluke’s presence across educational and nonprofit training environments, building relationships with institutions that prepare the next generation of technicians. Working closely with marketing, sales enablement, product, and regional sales teams, you will use education-sector insights to shape early-in-career strategy, drive internal adoption, and represent Fluke externally.

This role blends strategic partnership development, program design, and cross-functional leadership. You will manage one professional employee and lead national partnerships across the education and workforce development sectors, with the potential to build a larger team as the program grows. Success will be measured by education discount program performance, partner engagement, program reach, and contributions to early-in-career marketing strategy. The role reports to the Director of Commercial Marketing & Enablement.

Key Responsibilities

Program Strategy & Growth

+ Lead the strategic direction and execution of Fluke’s North America Education Partnership program, ensuring alignment with business objectives and achievement of program revenue goals.

+ Leverage education sector insights to drive marketing strategy, structured experimentation, and audience segmentation for early-in-career initiatives.

+ Develop scalable frameworks for educational partnerships, driving adoption and engagement across institutions, trade organizations, and workforce programs.

Partnership Development & Advocacy

+ Maintain executive-level relationships with critical national partners and industry associations.

+ Expand partnerships with schools, unions, nonprofits, and training organizations to strengthen Fluke’s footprint in technical education.

+ Represent Fluke at industry events, conferences, and educational forums as an advocate for technical education and early-career development.

Sales Enablement & Program Operations

+ Drive awareness, adoption and effective use of education discount programs in collaboration with commercial sales teams and channel partners.

+ Responsible for budget and resource allocation decisions and adapting departmental plans to address operational and strategic challenges in alignment with organization objectives.

+ Oversee strategic tool donation initiatives to elevate brand presence and program reach.

Internal Alignment & Leadership

+ Build internal advocacy for the education program through presentations, communications, and training.

+ Lead and partner on cross-functional initiatives influencing department priorities and collaborating with stakeholders to achieve program and organizational objectives.

+ Manage a professional employee; provide coaching, performance feedback and development opportunities to team, with accountability for performance and results.

+ Provide technical and strategic guidance to team members and stakeholders.

Qualifications

+ 7+ years’ experience in program management, partnership development, or commercial marketing within a mid-to-large company.

+ Demonstrated success in leading strategic initiatives, managing cross-functional teams, and driving program outcomes.

+ Proven ability to build and maintain external partnerships, preferably in education, training, or workforce development sectors, including familiarity with major trade education organizations.

+ Ability to identify and solve complex and organizational challenges, leveraging resources across departments to ensure program success.

+ Experience managing budgets, owning revenue targets, and driving process improvement initiatives (FBS or similar).

+ Strong communication and influencing skills; comfortable representing Fluke externally and engaging senior stakeholders internally.

+ Ability to provide strategic marketing input without direct ownership of campaign execution.

+ People leadership experience is welcome but not required; demonstrated capability and readiness to lead, mentor, and grow a team is essential.

+ Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, education, or related field.

+ Travel up to 40%.

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive’s essential technology makes the world safer and more productive. We accelerate transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, build environments, and healthcare.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in healthcare sterilization, industrial safety, predictive maintenance, and other mission-critical solutions. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to advanced technologies that help providers focus on exceptional patient care.

We are a diverse team 10,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.

About Fluke

Fluke is leading the world in creating software, test tools and technology that will support customers today and in the future. We are a customer-obsessed market leader with a strong reputation for reliability, quality and safety.A wholly owned subsidiary of Fortive Corporation (www.fortive.com), Fluke is a global corporation headquartered in the greater Seattle area. Driven by the successful Fortive Business System, Fluke offers the passion of a startup with the resources of a Fortune 500 company. We are focused on the growth of our individual employees, teams and the Fluke brand.

We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at [email protected].

Pay Range

The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 89,200.00 - 165,600.00

The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 89,200.00 - 165,600.00

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at [email protected].