Digital Solution Area Specialist - Azure Apps & Infrastructure - Nordics

Digital Sales, part of Microsoft's SMC and Digital sales organization, empowers our customers through the unique value of the Microsoft Cloud by building a globally-led, digital-first scale organization aligned with partners.

As part of our local subsidiaries or Digital Sales centers around the world, you will engage a dedicated set of enterprise customers to identify and achieve their business objectives through best-in-class digital engagement and partner co-selling. You will also have an opportunity to work collaboratively across teams while living our shared SMC and Digital Sales Culture priorities: Diversity and Inclusivity, Wellbeing, Sustainability, and Customer Obsession. 

As an Azure Apps & Infrastructure Specialist, you are a business leader with technical expertise working with our most important managed customers. You will lead a virtual team of sales, technical, and services resources to help customers realize digital transformation through cloud computing and achieve/exceed quarterly Azure Apps consumption targets for related workloads in your assigned accounts.

You possess a high EQ with executive presence, and are able to engage with senior decision makers to uncover digital transformation initiatives, and a passion to learning how Azure cloud services can deliver digital transformation.  This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, honing your solution sales and collaboration skills, and deepening your cloud expertise.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

Microsoft’s 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. 

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

• Technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

• Azure Platform. Understanding of Microsoft Azure Cloud platform with emphasis on Azure Infrastructure solutions including IaaS and PaaS based environments, and Azure based application management and governance
• Fluency in either Norwegian, Swedish or Danish (Understanding of Norwegian is a mandatory) 

Relocation expenses are not provided as part of this role. You must be legally authorised to work in Ireland to be eligible for this role. (Legally authorised = Has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit)

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Sales Execution

• Engages in conversation with customers aligned to their industry and collaborates with account and partner team to drive and qualify new opportunities and build pipeline.

• Identifies customer business and technology readiness, proactively builds external stakeholders' mapping, implements strategies to accelerate the closing of deals, coaches junior team members in deal plan execution, and implements close plans.

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Scaling and Collaboration

• Applies role orchestration model and navigates the Microsoft organization to bring the best impact to the customer.​
• Collaborates with Global Partner Solutions (GPS), identifies new partners, develops joint proposals with partners, and contributes to developing partner strategies.

Technical Expertise

• Leverages and shares competitor knowledge across solution areas as a subject matter expert to inform decisions on pursuit or withdrawal.
• Leads conversations and sets up events within Microsoft, mentors others and develops strategies for best practice sharing.
• Collaborates with the 'compete' SMEs internally to analyze competitor products, solutions, and/or services and implement strategies. ​
• Delivers Results Through Teamwork
• 40% of your time will be spent with customers identifying and surfacing new engagements that align with the customer’s business strategy. 
• 40% of your time will be spent on being the key technical leader, trusted advisor and influencer in shaping customer decisions to buy, architect and adopt Microsoft Application Development solutions.
• Lead presentations, demonstrations, whiteboarding sessions & architecture design sessions to explain, demonstrate, and prove to our largest customers the capabilities of Microsoft Azure, and how we can make their businesses more successful.
• 20% of your time will be spent on influencing the Microsoft Application Development platform go to market strategies by providing feedback to sales, marketing, and engineering