Solution Area Specialists -- Industry Solution Delivery
Job Summary
Job Description
Microsoft's Industry Solutions team seeks Solution Area Specialists to drive sales and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Responsibilities include managing sales pipelines, forecasting, collaborating with extended sales teams and partners, implementing sales strategies, engaging customers in digital transformation conversations, identifying and pursuing high-potential customers, and leveraging Microsoft's sales process. The role requires strong sales execution, collaboration skills, and technical expertise in one or more solution areas. Success involves driving revenue growth, building relationships, and effectively using Microsoft's sales process.
Must have:
- Bachelor's Degree in IT or related field
- 2+ years technology sales/account management
- Sales pipeline management & forecasting
- Collaboration with sales teams & partners
- Digital transformation expertise
- Customer relationship building
Good to have:
- 2+ years solution/services sales experience
- Technical community engagement
- Competitor analysis
- Experience with Microsoft's sales process (MSP)
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
5 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.
Microsoft Industry Solutions helps Microsoft customers around the world get the best outcomes from their investments in the latest Microsoft technologies. We focus on empowering customers on AI and digital journey, from envisioning new possibilities to delivering solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and a great customer experience.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technology-related sales or account management experience OR 3+ years technology-related sales or account management experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
2+ years solution or services sales experience.
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technology-related sales or account management experience OR 4+ years technology-related sales or account management experience.
Responsibilities
Sales Excellence
- Seeks client feedback (both formal and informal) to identify and understand the drivers of satisfaction and execute plans to maintain and continue to build on it, and to identify and understand the drivers of dissatisfaction, determine the root cause of problems, and establish recovery action plan to improve clients' overall experience. Shares feedback with account teams.
- Manages the pipeline of the assigned territory. Conducts forecasting for assigned accounts and develops a portfolio and territory plan with guidance.
- 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.
- Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry.
- Collaborates with partners and resources and learns about customer business. Supports senior team members to explore business and emerging opportunities.
Sales Execution
- 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. Initiates conversations with customers on digital transformation in a solution area, in collaboration with partners and services. Shares learning on digital transformation through seminars, workshops, webinars, and direct engagement.
- 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. For licensing transactions and project engagements, ensures rapid and robust deployment plan at point of sale that is validated by services and partners.
- 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.
- 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). Collaborates with account teams, partners, or services to track and qualify 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.
- 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. Listens to customers to understand business outcomes.
Scaling and Collaboration
- Collaborates with One Commercial Partner (OCP) and with a network of partners to cross-sell and up-sell products, solutions, and services. Identifies new partners by researching and discussing with partners on customer scenarios. Develops joint proposal with partners. Implements partner strategies to scale the business.
- Applies the orchestration model to leverage relationships with stakeholders and partners (e.g., Enterprise Operating Unit).
Technical Expertise
- Extends relationships with peers and senior team members across solution areas. Creates connections at technical community events.
- Initiates conversations with prospective customers/partners at events to expand external network. Acts as a subject matter expert in one or more solution area(s).
- Researches competitor products, solutions, and/or services and collaborates with the 'compete' global black belts (GBB) to implement strategies to position Microsoft against competitors in customer communication.
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
Similar Jobs
Nagarro
Colombia (Remote)
• 2 Months ago
Tesla
Berlin, Berlin, Germany (On-Site)
• 1 Month ago
PlaytestCloud
Berlin, Berlin, Germany (Remote)
• 2 Months ago
Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded
Similar Skill Jobs
Microsoft
Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China (On-Site)
• 1 Month ago
version 1
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)
• 3 Months ago
The Walt Disney Company
Orlando, Florida, United States (On-Site)
• 1 Month ago
Hitachi
São Paulo, State Of São Paulo, Brazil (Remote)
• 3 Months ago
Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded
Jobs in undefined
Looks like we're out of matches
Set up an alert and we'll send you similar jobs the moment they appear!
Business Development Jobs
Salesforce
Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco (On-Site)
• 4 Months ago
Microsoft
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (On-Site)
• 1 Month ago
Warner Bros Discovery
Issy-les-Moulineaux, Île-de-France, France (On-Site)
• 2 Months ago
ByteDance
London, England, United Kingdom (On-Site)
• 3 Months ago
Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded
About The Company
Microsoft is a tech giant that develops, licenses, and supports a range of software products, services, and devices.
Get notified when new jobs are added by Microsoft
