Digital Enterprise Sales (DES), Azure Cloud & AI Platforms Specialist

Digital Enterprise Sales (DES), part of Microsoft's Global Enterprise Sales organization, empowers our customers through the unique value of the Microsoft Cloud by building a globally led, digital-first scale organization aligned with partners. As part of our local subsidiaries or Digital Sales centers around the world, you will engage a dedicated set of enterprise customers to identify and achieve their business objectives through best-in-class digital engagement and partner co-selling. You will also have an opportunity to work collaboratively across teams while living our Global Enterprise Sales and Culture priorities: Diversity and Inclusivity, Wellbeing, Sustainability, and Customer Obsession. If you have a passion for driving digital first solutions and delivering customer satisfaction, we invite you to learn more about Digital Enterprise Sales and the value we bring to our customers, partners, and one another, every day.  

As a Digital Enterprise Cloud & AI Platforms Specialist, you will be a solution sales expert within our enterprise sales organization working with our most important customers across all Azure solutions.  You will collaborate with a team of technical, partner, and consulting resources to advance the sales process and exceed quarterly Azure revenue targets in your assigned accounts. ​Microsoft is revolutionizing customer experiences by leveraging the full spectrum of cloud technology. The DES Azure Specialists play a pivotal part, guiding customers to the solutions that solve problems, boost efficiency, and drive innovation. By staying abreast of cloud technologies and fostering collaborative relationships, sellers ensure customers fully harness the cloud’s transformative power. You will drive the day-to-day execution of Microsoft's strategic business priorities – selling best-in-class Secure Migrations for our customers, selling best-in-class Analytics and Data Platform Modernization capabilities, enabling Modernization in App, Data and Infra estate while enabling our customers to be AI-Ready.

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

Responsibilities:

• Customer-First Mindset: Engage with and enable our customers and key decision-makers, delivering a connected customer engagement experience and driving customer satisfaction, through digital sales excellence, empowered by world-class data, marketing systems and platforms.
• Trusted Advisor: Be a key trusted advisor and influencer in shaping customer decisions to buy and adopt Microsoft Azure solutions by winning the customers’ technical decision for consumption projects and usage scenarios through tailored messaging, technical discussions, and aligning the appropriate solutions partners, programs and resources to guide them in decision making and consumption plans.
• Team Collaboration: Collaborates with Digital Specialists, extended sales team, partners to conduct business analysis (e.g., whitespace analysis, identify industry trends) to pursue high-potential customers and develop a target list of potential business. Elevate team capabilities and focus on working smarter and more effectively. Prioritizing time with customers and partners, leveraging tools and processes to run and grow the business and build a solid team.
• Technical Acumen: Orchestrate technical demonstrations with other Technical Sales roles, to showcase how the proven capabilities of Microsoft Azure to meet customer’s business and technical objectives. Collaborate with account teams and partners to track, qualify, and expand new opportunities, building continuous pipeline. Interfaces with customers and builds relationships via social selling.
• Digital Transformation & Solution Enablement: Engages in conversations with customers to introduce how other workloads could enable digital transformation areas that are aligned with the customer's industry and turns opportunities into deals. Has a fundamental 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 and webinars.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Build relationships with leadership and field stakeholders to enable team success across internal and external stakeholders. Collaborates with account teams to identify and engage business subject matter decision makers at the customer's/partner's business and maximize scale through partners,
• Deal Orchestration & Cross-Functional Sales Enablement: Applies the orchestration model to proactively drive deal closure by identifying and aligning internal stakeholders and leveraging and expanding relationships with partners, creating demand leading with industry use cases.
• Other: Embody our culture and values  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration.
• OR equivalent years of experience in technology-related sales or account management.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field
• solid experience in technology-related sales or account management.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND solid experience in technology-related sales or account management.
• OR extensive experience in technology-related sales or account managements or solution sales or consulting services sales experience

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

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