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Sales Enablement & Ops Leader

Microsoft

Microsoft

Sales & Business Development, Operations
Posted on Dec 13, 2024

Sales Enablement & Ops Leader

Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines

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Date posted
Nov 26, 2024
Job number
1789058
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Sales Enablement
Discipline
Sales Enablement & Ops Management
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

Synthesizes findings into insights across sales projects, including implications that inform sales objectives, leveraging executive presence to influence decisions and proactively identifying expansive ideas for field and partner sales strategy. Drives the creation and execution of a strong Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) to establish and lead local, modern marketing governance and capability within the subsidiary. Connects Microsoft priorities and strategies to customer priorities. Drives resource optimization of key investments with rigor in partnership with the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to deliver right resources at the right time with the right return on investment (ROI). Grows Business and Sales Operations capability to deliver true insights for leaders, managers, and sellers. Analyzes and understands capabilities needed to drive success within scope of accountability and works to develop/mentor/coach talent internally. In addition, this role has people management responsibilities including driving employee growth and development, executing projects, and managing performance.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field, AND 10+ years related experience, including senior sales leadership roles, managing high-performance sales and/or technical-sales teams, coaching solution sales and account development strategies, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications
  • Master's Degree in Economics, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field, AND 10+ years related experience, including senior sales leadership roles, managing high-performance sales and/or technical-sales teams, coaching solution sales and account development strategies, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR
  • Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field, AND 12+ years related experience, including senior sales leadership roles, managing high performance sales and/or technical-sales teams, coaching solution sales and account development strategies, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR equivalent experience.

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Responsibilities

Culture and Leadership at Scale
Drives initiatives and capabilities needed to drive success within scope of accountability and works to develop/mentor/coach talent internally or develop plans to attract needed talent to Microsoft. Champions Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) plan, inclusion throughout talent process, and diversity-recruiting strategy. Drives change and cultural transformation within area of accountability as a coach, mentor, or program leader. Inspires managers and individuals in the organization and fosters a culture of customer-centricity, accountability, collaboration and achieving big bold goals. Defines expectations and sets strategies with other teams and organizations to determine the health of co-selling process within the region, and address partner capacity and capability needs. Represents the company externally with local partners, influencers, and national leaders in support of the company’s strategy. Ensures co-located employees develop a sense of belonging through internal events and communications. Supports performance of local business by removing blockers that arise from the local eco-system, and by sharing market intelligence. Creates and guides development of an area culture that fits within and aligns to Microsoft culture and values in partnership with the Area Vice President or Country Manager, to achieve a higher degree of customer-centricity, accountability, and collaboration, and value alignment for the area of accountability. Inspires, leads, manages, and holds accountability for successful growth of the team. Creates a culture of customer obsession and proactive compete to support growth and transformational efforts within the market. Creates a culture of innovation that brings everyone together through facilitating interconnectivity. Brings Microsoft purpose to the organization's day-by-day approach.
Delivering Business Results
Drives resource optimization of key investments with rigor in partnership with the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to deliver right resources at right time with right return on investment. Collaborates with internal teams (e.g., Finance, Marketing, Engineering, Field Sales). Manages and cultivates relationships with senior internal leaders (e.g., Directors, General Manager [GM]-level, higher). Acts as an advisor to senior leadership as a domain expert within Strategy team and greater Microsoft, leveraging deep technical/product knowledge, organizational context, and market awareness to guide less experienced colleagues and inform strategic business decisions. Drives and maintains a strong culture of compliance that exemplifies commitment to doing business with integrity and transparency in a way that develops trust with our customers, partners and suppliers. Remains accountable for successful cross-organization execution for plans. Drives the actual plan. Lands overall strategy, drives alignment to that strategy, and helps ensure the plan is executed. Leads, orchestrates, and optimizes resources across complex operating models and engines for effective business results. Holds accountability for execution and optimization success. Represents Microsoft externally to stakeholders including both customers and partners, and prioritizes time spent with each accordingly. Maintains a strong understanding of operations and status of execution against strategy based on indicators of success, and holds accountability for the success of transformation initiatives on an operational basis, including but not limited to the transformation toward a cloud business operational model.
Connected Sales and Marketing
Provides leadership to teams across the area/subsidiary for a connected sales and marketing strategy. Serves as an owner for the creation and execution of a strong central marketing discipline to establish and lead local, modern marketing governance and capability within the area/subsidiary. Connects Microsoft priorities and strategies to local sales and marketing priorities. Creates a strong and modern marketing team and capability across the area/subsidiary. Guides teams and contributors for exceptional return on investments of marketing initiatives. Coaches team on business and market knowledge, and on ways to collaborate internally to position Microsoft products, solutions, and/or services against competitors. Drives thought leadership and efforts for winning new audiences in the market, develops connections, and creates business development opportunities.
Business and Sales Operations Leadership
Cultivates Business and Sales Operations capability to credibly lead marketing governance for the Area/Subsidiary to drive a balance in short term results with longer term market momentum, including driving focus on winning new audiences to compete effectively. Communicates and socializes business and sales growth opportunities throughout the planning process, and provides detailed recommendations for improvement to key senior stakeholders across the area/subsidiary. Leads a team to identify opportunities to drive optimizations and new digitalization solutions based on customer strategies, and discusses customer needs and solutions based on customer insights. Develops effective leadership to teams (e.g., Central Marketing, Business and Sales Operations, Compete, Customer and Partner Experience, Business Product Group). Promotes leadership strategies across subsidiary leadership to build and maintain loyalty, and deliver sales insight and revenue. Utilizes Microsoft organizational knowledge to interpret internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products and services. Drives an agenda of innovation, thought leadership, and execution to realize results. Enables Business and Sales Operations to be successful through effective Empower Digital Success (EDS) leadership across the country or area, driving simplified rhythms, and increasing customer and partner facing time in alignment with EDS. Ensures balance between organizational productivity and well-being.
Growth and Transformational Leadership
Synthesizes findings into insights across sales projects, including implications that inform sales objectives, leveraging executive presence to influence decisions and proactively identifying expansive ideas for field and partner sales strategy. Leverages insights to develop recommendations around potential future growth opportunities and strategic issues for Microsoft sales processes. Applies frameworks and methodologies to drive problem solving and insights. Drives the velocity of Microsoft’s transformation and for quality business performance results against strategic priorities and critical measures of success. Leads teams to execute projects, programs, and initiatives to deliver financial and operational results. Provides industry insights into customer engagements and helps close deals with customers and coaches and influences others internally on how to do this. Contributes recommendations to assist in market and government digitization efforts regarding engagement of government and alignment with policy. Demonstrates an understanding of local market opportunities including high growth industries and drives transformation in these areas. Partners with Subsidiary Leadership Teams to identify growth opportunities in the market, innovates to grow market share, and executes new strategies. Drives competitive insights to preempt competition across solution area competitors. Assists to drive Cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) country plan emphasizing sustainability, accessibility, skilling and digital transformation.
Customer Value Creation
Provides advice and industry expertise to help team connect Microsoft solutions, priorities, and strategies to customer business impact and priorities. Identifies gaps and drives new workloads through communication of financial value to the customer, collaborating with sales team and driving new workloads. Leverages their network and industry experience to connect customers with ideas, people, and resources to new support customer opportunities. Leverages existing customers. Uses digital tools and technology to conduct research and engage customers. Generates and promotes constructive tension with customers to challenge thinking and develop deeper customer engagement. Creates strategy to take insights from relationships to influence decision makers. Coaches team on business and market knowledge, and on ways to collaborate internally to position Microsoft products, solutions, and/or services against competitors

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

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.