Digital Solution Area Specialist- Modern Work
Microsoft
Posted on Dec 13, 2024
Digital Solution Area Specialist- Modern Work
Mexico City, México, Mexico
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Date posted
Nov 27, 2024
Job number
1788988
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Digital Sales and Solutions
Discipline
Digital Solution Area Specialists
Employment type
Full-Time
Overview
Has a deep understanding of customers' business and its priorities to drive conversations with customers on digital transformation across multiple solution areas, in collaboration with partners and services. Collaborates with account teams, partners, or services to track, qualify, and expand new opportunities. Identifies, develops, proposes, and articulates solutions that align with customer needs. Contributes input and coaches junior team on strategies to drive and close prioritized opportunities. Collaborates with One Commercial Partner (OCP) and partners to cross-sell, up-sell, and co-sell. Applies the orchestration model to proactively drive deal closure by identifying and aligning internal stakeholders and leveraging and expanding relationships with partners. Proactively provides analysis of the competitive landscape in supported solution area and decides to pursue or withdrawal. Contributes to exploring business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and support customer innovation. Manages and/or orchestrates sales and delivery success through the account team and pursuit team. Engages with internal and external stakeholders on business planning, rhythm-of-business (ROB) meetings to review and plan for assigned accounts. Collaborates with internal teams and partners to conduct business analysis to pursue high-potential customers and develop a target list of potential business. Manages the end-to-end business of the assigned territory.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 7+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 9+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
6+ years of solution or services sales experience Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 10+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 11+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
Responsibilities
Sales Excellence
Manages the end-to-end business for strategic accounts across the organization; leads forecasting for accounts and develops a portfolio and territory plan to drive intentional selling with on-strategy engagements in high propensity accounts; mentors junior team members.
Builds and transforms new markets by leveraging technical and industry expertise, partners, and resources; leads a team to explore business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and facilitate customer innovation.
Reviews feedback report and sets long-term strategies aimed at maintaining levels of client satisfaction; 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.
Engages with internal and external stakeholders on business planning, rhythm-of-business (ROB) meetings to review and plan for strategic accounts across territories.
Collaborates with extended sales team, partners, and marketing to lead business analysis (e.g., whitespace analysis, identify industry trends) to pursue high-potential customers and develop a target list of potential business; acts as a thought leader and validates opinions and perspectives from business analysis.
Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry; proactively seeks training, including information that adds to the understanding of customers' business, and shares it with team members.
Sales Execution
Proactively builds external stakeholder network and leverages internal partners to engage external stakeholders; acts as a thought leader and subject matter advisor to the executive-level business decision makers at the customer's/ partner's business; guides others on identifying and engaging decision makers and stakeholders to expand the relationship with customers/ partners.
Explores and assesses the needs of strategic/high-potential customers; articulates business value and long-term implications for customer business; collaborates with internal teams, partners, and services to lead the proposal or development of solutions that align with customer and Microsoft priorities; analyzes market trends to identify opportunities for new solutions.
Develops strategies for driving and closing strategic and/or prioritized opportunities; collaborates with account teams to ensure alignment with the account strategy and plan; leads deal execution with the deal teams across the organization; coaches others on the implementation of 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.
Brings impactful industry insights into customer engagements and closes deals with customers; acts as a thought leader across solution areas to advise customers across business functions on digital transformation with a challenger mindset that accounts for customers' business needs and priorities; leads virtual transformational shifts to drive deployment and create business value for customers; may lead partner integration into account/territory planning and customer engagements.
Orchestrates with team members on conducting personal campaigns to discover new opportunities and generate new leads; leads conversations with strategic/high-potential customers (e.g., high-budget, global-account, highly competitive) along with account teams or partners; facilitates the account team unit (ATU) to build pipeline in collaboration with partners and services; guides others on social selling; applies Microsoft's sales process (MSP) to determine the quality of the opportunity and whether to proceed, and educate the customers on how to best address their needs.
Drives consumption and grow business with existing strategic customers by initiating conversations, guiding others on demos or quotes, and the collaboration 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.
Scaling and Collaboration
Leads the sales orchestration to proactively drive deal closure by identifying and aligning internal stakeholders as well as leveraging and expanding relationships with partners; applies a holistic approach to build network across territories; positions opportunities to promote collaboration and participation.
Leads the planning and execution on opportunities with resources and partners to cross-sell, up-sell, and co-sell; identifies, leverages, coordinates partners and resources across solution areas, and supports on-boarding new partners; validates partner solution relevance for customers; provides input and feedback to One Commercial Partner (OCP) on developing partner strategies and consumption plans, and connects the partner ecosystems to scale business results.
Technical Expertise
Leverages and shares competitor knowledge across solution areas as a subject matter expert to inform decisions on pursuit or withdrawal; collaborates with the "compete" global black belts (GBBs) to proactively provide analysis of the competitive landscape in supported solution area; leads the communication to provide feedback to other teams (e.g., sales, marketing, engineering) on future product trends or sales blocker.
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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