Senior Solution Sales Specialist (Modern Work Solution)

1 Day ago • 6-7 Years • Business Development • Undisclosed

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Job Description

The Senior Solution Sales Specialist (Modern Work Solution) at Microsoft focuses on selling Microsoft Viva, an employee experience platform. This role requires leading a virtual team to achieve sales targets, consulting with clients to assess needs and recommend solutions, and driving customer satisfaction. Responsibilities include orchestrating sales strategies, crafting solutions, building business value, collaborating with internal stakeholders, sharing best practices, and leading account planning. The ideal candidate will have strong sales execution, consultative solution sales, business value selling, scaling and collaboration, and technical expertise skills. Experience with CRM/ERP or similar SaaS applications is preferred.
Must have:
  • 6+ years tech sales/account management
  • Lead virtual teams & close deals
  • Consultative solution sales expertise
  • Build business value & justify solutions
  • Collaborate effectively with stakeholders
  • Modern Work solution knowledge
Good to have:
  • Experience selling CRM/ERP or SaaS
  • Understanding of employee experience challenges
  • Skill in building economic justification
  • Ability to scale and collaborate effectively
  • Technical expertise in Modern Work solutions
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

Microsoft is at the forefront of the employee transformation, with Microsoft Viva, an employee experience platform that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights in the flow of work. Powered by Microsoft 365 and experienced through Microsoft Teams, Viva fosters a culture that empowers employees and teams to be their best from anywhere. Employee Experience and Engagement | Microsoft Viva To support our customers, the Employee Experience team is looking for someone who is passionate about people as individuals, not just workers. The Employee Experience Specialist is an accomplished and experienced solution seller with a proven record of

accomplishment of Solution sales for a SaaS-based company or similar technology.  You will lead a virtual team of technical, licensing expert, engineering resources to advance the sales process and achieve/exceed solution sales and usage/consumption targets for related workloads in your accounts. You will help customers evaluate their applications, recommend solutions that meet their requirements, remove roadblocks to deployment and drive customer satisfaction. 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.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications :

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 6+ years technology-related sales or account management experience OR 7+ years technology-related sales or account management experience.

 

 

Additional or Preferred Qualifications :

•Sales Execution: Skilled in leading BDM outside of traditional ITDM conversations with high-potential customers, building pipeline and developing and presenting solutions that meet customer requirements & strategy, and leading deal execution through closure.

· Employee Experience: Experience with selling CRM/ERP or similar software-as-a-service, cloud-based business applications. Has deep understanding of all or part of the challenges and opportunities in an emerging category and can envision solutions mapped with business value to address customer persona business needs and pains.

· Business Value Selling: Skilled in building economic justification of Modern Work solutions, assessing business opportunities and needs, and validating business value analysis with customers to drive intention to buy

· Scaling and Collaboration: Skilled in identifying, leveraging, and coordinating a holistic, collaborative, and participative approach with internal stakeholders across solutions areas to scale business results.

· Technical Expertise: Skilled in understanding Modern Work solutions and products, developing strategies to share best practices across subsidiaries, collaborating with Global Black Belts (GBBs) and other stakeholders on compete scenarios and providing insights on future product trends and sales blockers.

· Sales Excellence: Skilled in collaborating with internal and external stakeholders on business planning, leading forecast, account, and territory plan discussions to drive intentional selling in high propensity accounts.

 

Responsibilities

Sales Execution: You will orchestrate a virtual team and assess customer needs to develop strategies that proactively build a stakeholder network to accelerate and close Modern Work opportunities.

· Consultative Solution Sales: You will drive solutions sales best practices including but not limited to; discovery, building and crafting solution strategies that differentiate from the competition, challenging our customers with creative and innovative solutions.

· Business Value Selling: You will foster and expand Microsoft’s relationships with Customer Business Decision. Collaborate alongside other sellers roles to identify and qualify new Modern Work opportunities, engaging with key business contacts, understanding customers’ business and technology priorities, governance, decision, and budget processes, and landing the value proposition of Microsoft Viva.

· Scaling and Collaboration: You will lead the planning, orchestration, and execution of Modern Work opportunities with internal stakeholders and partners to cross-sell and up-sell.

· Technical Expertise: You will lead Modern Work BDM (Business Decision Maker) and ITDM (Information Technology Decision Maker) conversations, shares best practices and key competitor knowledge across solution areas acting as a subject matter expert to inform decisions on pursuit or withdrawal.

•Sales Excellence: You will lead the planning for accounts across territories, complete plans, and business analysis to pursue high-potential customers and manage Modern Work solutions across the organization. •Deliver Results and Model Microsoft Values: You will deliver results through teamwork, acts as role model for MS values including treating others with fairness and respect.

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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