Digital Solution Specialist - Azure Infrastructure
Job Summary
Job Description
- 3+ years technology sales/account management
- Secure cloud migration expertise
- Azure and AI platform knowledge
- Strong sales execution skills
- Customer relationship management
- Collaboration with partners
- Strategic business planning
- Solution sales/consulting experience
- Understanding of digital transformation
10 skills required
Job Details
Overview
Digital Enterprise Sales (DES), as part of Microsoft’s Global Enterprise 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 Global Enterprise Sales and Culture priorities: Diversity and Inclusivity, Wellbeing, Sustainability, and Customer Obsession. If you have a passion for driving digital first solutions and delivering customer satisfaction, we invite you to learn more about Digital Enterprise Sales team and the value we bring to our customers, partners, and one another, every day.
As part of our transformation, one of our key areas of focus is the modernization of our sales motions. The Global Enterprise Sales organization with a charter to achieve Microsoft and Customer business outcomes with a focus on AI, Copilot and Security.
As a Digital Enterprise Sales Specialist, you will work with our most important customers within our enterprise organization. You will drive the day-to-day execution of Microsoft's strategic business priorities – selling best-in-class Secure Migrations for our customers to be AI-Ready by leading with Migration opportunities with Windows Server, SQL Server and Linux Estate. We enable customers’ cloud modernization at scale driving innovation with Azure AI Platform, to our managed customers and building digital transformation momentum for our customers, partners, and Microsoft.
Microsoft is revolutionizing customer experiences by leveraging AI to address challenges and enhance achievements. The DES Infrastructure Specialists play a pivotal part, guiding customers through AI's potential to solve problems, boost efficiency, and drive innovation. By staying abreast of AI advancements and fostering collaborative relationships, sellers ensure customers fully harness AI's transformative power for actionable insights and industry success. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50%/up 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.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 3+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 4+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
- 2+ years of solution sales or consulting services sales experience Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 4+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
Responsibilities
- Manages the end-to-end business of the assigned territory; conducts forecasting for accounts and develops a portfolio and territory plan to drive intentional selling aligned with strategic priorities.
- Collaborates with partners and resources and leverages customer insights or industry knowledge; contributes to exploring business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and support customer innovation.
- Participates in rhythm-of-business (ROB) meetings to review and plan for accounts in the assigned territory.
- Collaborates with extended sales team, partners, and marketing to conduct business analysis (e.g., whitespace analysis, identify industry trends) to pursue high-potential customers and develop a target list of potential business.
- Reviews feedback report and 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.
- Identifies customer business needs and technical readiness; collaborates with internal teams, partners, and services to propose prioritized solutions that align with customers' needs; leverages the value propositions to communicate business impact of proposed solutions.
- Implements strategies to help accelerate the closing of deals in collaboration with other team members; implements 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.
- Develops an understanding of external stakeholders' mapping, including who the decision makers and influencers are; participates with account teams (e.g., Account Executives) in communication with business or subject matter decision makers at the customer's/partner's business.
- Identifies opportunities to drive consumption and grow business with existing customers by initiating conversations, providing demos or quotes, and collaborating 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.
- Collaborates with team members to discover new opportunities; drives incremental revenue growth through personal campaigns (e.g., portfolio analysis) or internal sources (e.g., marketing, account teams); collaborates with account teams, partners, or services to track, qualify, and expand new opportunities; collaborates with other teams (e.g., account teams) and services to build pipeline; interfaces with customers and builds relationships via social selling; applies Microsoft's sales process (MSP) to determine the quality of the opportunity and whether to proceed.
- Applies the orchestration model to support deal closure by identifying and aligning internal stakeholders and leveraging relationships with partners.
- Collaborates with One Commercial Partner (OCP) and with a network of partners to cross-sell, up-sell, and co-sell products, solutions and services; identifies new partners by researching and discussing with partners on customer scenarios; develops joint proposals and consumption plans with partners; implements partner strategies to scale the business.
- Researches competitor products, solutions, and/or services and collaborates with the "compete" global black belts (GBBs) to implement strategies to position Microsoft against competitors in customer communication.
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