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Solution Sales Specialist - Azure Infrastructure & Security
atMicrosoft ThailandThe Small, Medium, Corporate (SMC) teams help organizations achieve their Digital and AI transformation goals by acting as trusted advisors and matching customer challenges across industries with Microsoft solutions.
As an SMC Azure Sales Specialist focusing on Infrastructure and Security, you are a business leader with technical expertise working with our most important Corporate Managed Customers. Located in country, you will lead a virtual team of Sales, Technical, and Services resources to help customers evaluate their Cloud Strategy and Digital & AI Transformation plans and recommend solutions that meet their requirements. You will build and maintain relationships with customers, influence long-term strategic direction and act as a trusted advisor, driving engagement at the C-suite level with technology and business decision makers. Through your expertise and professional network, as well as by leveraging Digital Signals, you will be able to identify projects and build compelling business cases. You will also leverage Microsoft's Partner Ecosystem to scale and drive consumption projects to production.
This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, honing your solution sales and collaboration skills, and deepening your Cloud & AI expertise.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
Scaling and Collaboration
Collaborates with One Commercial Partner (OCP) and with a network of partners to cross-sell, up-sell, and co-sell; identifies and supports on-boarding new partners by researching and discussing customer scenarios; provides feedback to OCP on partner gaps; develops joint proposals and consumption plans with partners; contributes to developing partner strategies to address gaps in partner capabilities.
Applies the orchestration model to proactively drive deal closure by identifying and aligning internal stakeholders and leveraging and expanding relationships with partners.
Role Model Microsoft Values
Treats others with fairness and respect, and shows empathy and compassion.
Models compliance and represents the Microsoft Values and the One Microsoft culture.
Sales Execution
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, account teams); collaborates with account teams, partners, or services to track, qualify, and expand 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.
Engages in conversations with customers to introduce how other workloads could enable digital transformation areas that is aligned with the customer's industry and turns opportunities into deals; 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; creates guiding examples of digital transformation through seminars, workshops, Webinars, and direct engagement.
Identifies customer business needs and technology readiness; contributes to the development of solutions in collaboration with internal teams, partners, and services; proposes prioritized solutions that align with customers' needs; articulates the business value of proposed solutions.
Proactively builds external stakeholders' mapping; collaborates with account teams (e.g., Account Executives) to identify and engage senior business subject matter decision makers at the customer's/partner's business.
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 [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.
Implements strategies to accelerate the closing of deals; contributes input on strategies to drive and close prioritized opportunities; coaches junior team members in deal plan execution; 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.
Technical Expertise
Collaborates with the "compete" global black belts (GBBs) to analyze competitor products, solutions, and/or services and implements strategies to position Microsoft against competitors in customer communication; proactively provides analysis of the competitive landscape in supported solution area; evaluates opportunities and makes recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal.
Sales Excellence
Collaborates with partners and resources and leverages customer insights or industry knowledge; contributes to exploring business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and support customer innovation.
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.
Engages with internal and external stakeholders on business planning, rhythm-of-business (ROB) meetings to review and plan for accounts in the assigned territory.
Manages the end-to-end business of the assigned territory; conducts forecasting for accounts and develops a portfolio and territory plan to drive intentional selling aligned with strategic priorities.
Reviews feedback report and 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.
Deliver Results Through Teamwork
Drives the execution of projects by identifying customer and operational needs, setting priorities, removing barriers and obstacles, and allocating resources.
Partners and collaborates with other teams on related deliverables, and leverages others in relevant work streams.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 6+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
3+ years of solution sales or consulting services sales experience Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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.
Experience required
- 5 years
Salary
- Negotiable
Job function
- Sales
- Product / Brand Management
- Security
Job type
- Full-time
Company overview
Size:100-500 employees
Industry:Information Technology
Location:Bangkok
Website:careers.microsoft.com/us/en/students-and-graduates
Founded in:n/a
Ranking:4/5
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Job training
- Paid holidays
- Professional development
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