Sales Director - ITES
Job Summary
Job Description
Microsoft seeks a Sales Director for ITES in Bangalore to lead and grow strategic Government/SOE customer relationships. This role requires 15+ years of education-related sales experience and 5+ years managing high-performing sales teams. Responsibilities include developing a high-performing team, driving digital transformation strategies, presenting solutions, structuring deals, and ensuring sales process compliance. The ideal candidate will possess strong business planning, coaching, and executive presence skills, along with a deep understanding of Microsoft software and competitive technologies. They must be adept at navigating complex customer environments and driving revenue growth while maintaining high customer satisfaction.
Must have:
- 15+ years education-related sales experience
- 5+ years managing high-performing sales teams
- Experience selling Microsoft software solutions
- Strong business planning and coaching skills
- Executive presence and ability to build trust
- Experience leading the entire sales cycle
2 skills required
Job Details
Overview
Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.
We live in a global, connected, and ever-changing world driven by the 4th industrial revolution where today’s students will need to have digital literacy and new skills to thrive in the digital economy. As we face a new world of work, changing economies, preparing education institutions to build future leaders has never been more vital to society.
Qualifications
Experiences Required: Education, Key Experiences, Skills and Knowledge:
- Strong sales and business background, with 15+ years education related experience and 5 or more years of people management and leading high performing sales teams to achieve quota and sustainable growth year-over year,
- Experience of selling software solutions (Microsoft software and devices technology preferred) combined with deep understanding of key Industry solutions and competitive technologies
- Strong business planning and coaching/instilling business discipline skills woven with ability to encourage sales/tech sales team to develop and implement targeted plans
- Possess executive maturity, presence and experience in building trust with senior decision makers
- Ability to drive digital transformation in a highly competitive environment with proven ability to successfully anticipate market changes to drive industry-relevant solutions, address competitive threats and navigate complex customer environments
- Experience in leading and driving the entire sales cycle, orchestrating virtual selling teams where necessary, leveraging repeatable offerings that maximize revenue/market share/consumption opportunities and increase customer satisfaction
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
Responsibilities
- Developing a high-performing sales team to expand strategic Government/SOE customer relationships to drive larger impact and targeted business growth and drive the jointly agreed customer multi-year Digital Transformation business strategy, delivering agreed outcomes while leading a virtual internal and external team with the customer and partners
- Disrupting the mindset of customers and sales teams by bringing innovative ideas that showcase case for change and Microsoft's unique value proposition for Government/SOE Customers.
- Presenting and demonstrating key end-user solutions/capabilities and technical architectures aligned to a customer maturity framework/path. Have experience in discussing and taking Digital transformation projects for Govt and/or SOE customers.
- Team planning and sales execution rhythm
- Planning and overseeing the process of structuring deals and defining the negotiation strategies for customer accounts
- Remaining focused on customer facing time by running a healthy and predictable business that delivers on a jointly agreed customer Digital Transformation strategy maintaining rigorous sales process compliance
- Continuously nurturing and expanding your sales, industry, technology and competitive knowledge and capabilities
- Providing insight and feedback from customers and partners to the Microsoft Worldwide Industry Teams to help learning and improvement in industry solutions and digital transformation offerings
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