Senior Sales Director (Public Sector, Transportation)

24 Minutes ago • 4-8 Years • Business Development

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Job Description

The Senior Sales Director (Public Sector, Transportation) at Microsoft leads account teams to drive customer business outcomes, focusing on digital transformation within the public sector transportation industry. Responsibilities include people management (modeling, coaching, caring for team members), market thought leadership (establishing competitive advantages and strategies), driving digital transformation growth (understanding customer needs and partnering internally to accelerate innovation), and guiding business transformation. The role requires strategic leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to foster a culture of learning, accountability, and collaboration. The successful candidate will analyze strategies, mentor talent, and serve as a subject matter expert in relevant regulatory environments. They will influence and work across organizational functions, partners, and teams to drive growth and effectively define sales processes.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's Degree in relevant field
  • Demonstrated senior sales leadership experience
  • Experience managing high-performance sales teams
  • Coaching solution sales and account development
  • Digital transformation expertise
  • Public sector experience
Perks:
  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Networking opportunities

Overview

The Sales Manager is leading account teams to drive customer business outcomes for our Public Sector business, to help customers to digitally transform in their industry, to accelerate revenue growth, consumption, usage and customer adds.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field
  • demonstrated sales experience, including senior sales leadership roles, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, coaching solution sales and account development strategies, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations

 

 

 

Responsibilities

People Management

  • Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
  • Model - Live our culture. Embody our values. Practice our leadership principles.
  • Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries. Help the team adapt and learn.
  • Care - Attract and retain great people. Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others.

 

Market/Industry Thought Leadership

  • Provides guidance to team on establishing Microsoft's competitive advantage and offering strategies that satisfy customers' Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Drives results faster than competition in new markets/solution areas (e.g., cloud services growth and consumption). Identifies light house/beach head successes in select or strategic industries (develop a competitive advantage through launching something very successful/excelling in the industry).

 

Digital Transformation Growth

  • Understands drivers of digital transformation relevant to their customers and partners across lines of business and coaches team to partner with internal teams to accelerate the customer/partner innovative digital transformation. Leads digital transformation and shifts market; captures addressable market. Leads a cross-organizational segment manager on strategic projects that enable innovative digital transformation and deliver business value. Leads managers to apply a growth and customer/partner mindset in response to transformation and customers/competitors. Sets strategies for managers to enable managers to lead teams.

 

Driving Transformation in the Business

  • Guides the business within the segment, leads the strategic directions, leads managers and teams on how to think creatively in response to customer/partner needs and competition, and facilitates transformation among internal teams.

 

Culture and Leadership Across the Business

  • Analyzes and understands strategies to drive success within scope of accountability and works to develop/mentor/coach talent internally. Encourages managers and individuals across the organization. Fosters a culture of learning, coaching, customer-centricity, accountability, collaboration and achieving big bold goals. Motivates and brings teams together. Leads a diverse and inclusive workforce. Creates/hires a diverse team. Fosters an inclusive working environment via the ten inclusive behaviors. Serves as a subject matter expert in relevant local regulatory and policy environments (e.g., opening doors and removing barriers for sales teams, partners, and customers) across geographic areas. Demonstrates industry capabilities to address public sector agendas. Influences and works across organization functions, partners and teams to drive growth and transformation and effectively define sale processes, holding others accountable for results. Leads team to identify opportunities to drive optimizations and new digitalization solution strategies based on customer and market strategies, and discusses/advocates for customer/market needs and solutions based on customer/partner insights.

 

Orchestration and Collaboration

  • Builds and maintains broad leader network within and across partner community for specific skill sets and industries as well as within Microsoft. Creates new points of entry for orchestration and collaboration. Defines where orchestration is needed for success. Influences and works across functions, partners and teams to drive growth and transformation and effectively define sale processes, holding others accountable for results. Encourages and sets the tone for an organizational culture for collaboration. Implements customer relationship development strategies across the organization.

 

Other

  • Embody our and
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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