Job Description

The Small, Medium, Corporate (SMC) teams help organizations achieve their Digital and AI transformation goals by acting as trusted advisors and matching customer challenges across industries with Microsoft solutions.


As an SMC Azure Sales Specialist focusing on Applications, Infrastructure and Security, you are a business leader with technical expertise working with our most important Corporate Managed Customers. Located in country, you will lead a virtual team of Sales, Technical, and Services resources to help customers evaluate their Cloud Strategy and Digital & AI Transformation plans and recommend solutions that meet their requirements. You will build and maintain relationships with customers, influence long-term strategic direction and act as a trusted advisor, driving engagement at the C-suite level with technology and business decision makers. Through your expertise and professional network, as well as by leveraging Digital Signals, you will be able to identify projects and build compelling business cases. You will also leverage Microsoft\'s Partner Ecosystem to scale and drive consumption projects to production.

This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, honing your solution sales and collaboration skills, and deepening your Cloud & AI expertise.

Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Sales Execution

• Brings impactful industry insights into customer engagements and closes deals with customers. Acts as a thought leader across solution areas to advise customers across business functions on digital transformation with a challenger mindset that accounts for customers\' business needs and priorities. Leads virtual transformational shifts to drive deployment and create business value for customers. May lead partner integration into account/territory planning and customer engagements.
• Orchestrates with team members on conducting personal campaigns to discover new opportunities and generate new leads. Leads conversations with strategic/high-potential customers (e.g., high-budget, global-account, highly competitive) along with account teams or partners. Facilitates the account team unit (ATU) to build pipeline in collaboration with partners and services. Guides others on social selling. Applies Microsoft\'s sales process (MSP) to determine the quality of the opportunity and whether to proceed, and educate the customers on how to best address their needs.
• Drives consumption and grow business with existing strategic customers by initiating conversations, guiding others on demos or quotes, and the collaboration with partners or internal teams (e.g., Technical Sales Professionals, global black belts [GBBs]). For licensing transactions and project engagements, ensures rapid and robust deployment plan at point of sale that is validated by services and partners. Identifies, articulates, and facilitates the removal of blockers to consumption by partnering with internal and external stakeholders.
• Explores and assesses the needs of strategic/high-potential customers. Articulates business value and long-term implications for customer business. Collaborates with internal teams, partners, and services to lead the proposal or development of solutions that align with customer and Microsoft priorities. Analyzes market trends to identify opportunities for new solutions.
• Proactively builds external stakeholder network and leverages internal partners to engage external stakeholders. Acts as a thought leader and subject matter advisor to the executive-level business decision makers at the customer\'s/ partner\'s business. Guides others on identifying and engaging decision makers and stakeholders to expand the relationship with customers/ partners.
• Develops strategies for driving and closing strategic and/or prioritized opportunities. Collaborates with account teams to ensure alignment with the account strategy and plan. Leads deal execution with the deal teams across the organization. Coaches others on the implementation of close plans (e.g., how to map timeline, engage the customer, get customer buy in and commitment) to de-risk and drive predictable deal closure. Engages in conversations with customers to introduce how other workloads could enable digital transformation areas that is aligned with the customer\'s industry. Has a fundamental understanding of customers\' business to initiate conversations with customers on digital transformation in a single solution area, in collaboration with partners and services. Shares learning on digital transformation through seminars, workshops, Webinars, and direct engagement.

Scaling and Collaboration

• Leads the planning and execution on opportunities with resources and partners to cross-sell, up-sell, and co-sell. Identifies, leverages, coordinates partners and resources across solution areas, and supports on-boarding new partners. Validates partner solution relevance for customers. Provides input and feedback to One Commercial Partner (OCP) on developing partner strategies and consumption plans, and connects the partner ecosystems to scale business results.
• Leads the sales orchestration to proactively drive deal closure by identifying and aligning internal stakeholders as well as leveraging and expanding relationships with partners. Applies a holistic approach to build network across territories. Positions opportunities to promote collaboration and participation.

Technical Expertise

• Leverages and shares competitor knowledge across solution areas as a subject matter expert to inform decisions on pursuit or withdrawal. Collaborates with the "compete" global black belts (GBBs) to proactively provide analysis of the competitive landscape in supported solution area. Leads the communication to provide feedback to other teams (e.g., sales, marketing, engineering) on future product trends or sales blocker.

Sales Excellence

• Builds and transforms new markets by leveraging technical and industry expertise, partners, and resources. Leads a team to explore business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and facilitate customer innovation.
• Reviews feedback report and sets long-term strategies aimed at maintaining levels of client satisfaction. Coaches others on ensuring customer/partner satisfaction and decreasing dissatisfaction by establishing recovery action plans to improve clients\' overall experience. Manages and/or orchestrates sales and delivery success through the account team and pursuit team.
• Engages with internal and external stakeholders on business planning, rhythm-of-business (ROB) meetings to review and plan for strategic accounts across territories.
• Collaborates with extended sales team, partners, and marketing to lead business analysis (e.g., whitespace analysis, identify industry trends) to pursue high-potential customers and develop a target list of potential business. Acts as a thought leader and validates opinions and perspectives from business analysis.
• Manages the end-to-end business for strategic accounts across the organization. Leads forecasting for accounts and develops a portfolio and territory plan to drive intentional selling with on-strategy engagements in high propensity accounts. Mentors junior team members.
• Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry. Proactively seeks training, including information that adds to the understanding of customers\' business, and shares it with team members.

Other

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 9+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR Bachelor\'s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 7+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 11+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR Bachelor\'s Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 10+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR Master\'s Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
• 6+ years of solution or services sales experience.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.