Strategic Account Executive - Aerospace

Microsoft’s Enterprise Account Team focuses on partnering with customers to achieve strategic goals. This team is responsible for providing a differentiated Customer experience for our customers, delivering solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and driving revenue growth for Microsoft.

As a Strategic Enterprise Account Executive - Aerospace, you will have the opportunity to drive Transformation in partnership with one of our most strategic customer with a focus on AI, Copilot and Security, to achieve both Microsoft and customer business outcomes.

Leveraging your large, multi-functional team across the breadth of the Microsoft solutions portfolio, engage at the most senior levels of your customer and bring industry-relevant solutions to help the customer adopt and embrace digital technologies.

With a proven history of driving growth in market share, achieving sales targets, customer obsession, and partner collaboration, this role will give the opportunity to leverage your extensive customer network and sales experience to execute against your customer’s account plan. This role is flexible in that you can work remotely, however, you will be expected to spend most of your time visting your customers premises, mainly in Toulouse.

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

• You will deliver business growth through leading and empowering account teams. Lead execution of Go to Market (GTM) to achieve customer business outcomes across the entire customer lifecycle.
• You will accelerate customer satisfaction and model executive engagements with business decision makers and C-Level executives.
• You will win against competition by establishing Microsoft as market leader, maximizing Customer spend, achieving targets (billed revenue, consumption, and adoption).
• You will lead partnership across the organization to achieve business value for customers and business results for Microsoft.
• You will cultivate relationships and use Microsoft sales strategies throughout multiple levels of the customer's organization (e.g., executives, business, and technical decision makers) to establish strong alignment on long-term goals and secure buy-in and execution.
• You will use business cases to develop and present compelling value proposition presentations and specialized business plans for customers that showcase Microsoft's products and solutions, generate business and upsells, and generate new opportunities.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications (Rqs)

• 13+ years experience in working in an industry (Aerospace, Manufacturing, Defense, Technology, Cybersecurity) and/or driving digital transformation
• 6+ years experience making recommendations to and/or collaborating with mid-to-senior level executives
• 8+ years experience closing large, complex agreements/deals
• OR Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience working in an industry (Aerospace, Manufacturing, Defense, Technology, Cybersecurity) and/or driving digital transformation
• OR Master's Degree AND 9+ years experience working in an industry (Aerospace, Manufacturing, Defense, Technology, Cybersecurity) and/or driving digital transformation.
• OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications (Pqs)

• Previous successfull experince of Business Development and/or Digital Transformation in the Aerospace sector is a strong plus.

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