Digital Solution Area Specialists

Overview

Digital Enterprise Sales 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 shared 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 Enterprise Digital Sales and the value we bring to our customers, partners, and one another, every day.

We are looking for passionate, experienced, and credible specialist sellers with a drive for developing and winning strategic opportunities that deliver end-to-end AI Workforce thought leadership driving significant customer value and enabling transformational customer outcomes.

You will drive the day-to-day execution of Microsoft's strategic business priorities – selling best-in-class cloud services and platforms to our managed customers and build digital transformation momentum for our customers, partners, and Microsoft. Your exceptional sales skills, deep understanding of enterprise needs, and ability to build strong customer relationships will be instrumental in achieving sales targets and driving customer success.

As a AI Workforce Digital Specialist you will play a vital role in driving business growth by generating pipeline, engaging with prospective clients, building strong relationships, and closing sales. It will be essential to understand the specific pain points and requirements of the customer's industry or organization and how AI will enable a whole new way of working. You will demonstrate how these solutions can optimize workflows, enhance productivity, and improve employee engagement will be key to successfully promoting Microsoft's offerings and help organizations unlock the full potential of their workforce.

You will also have an opportunity to work cross-collaboratively while living our shared Digital Sales Culture priorities: Diverse and Inclusive, Wellbeing, Sustainability, Giving and Learning. If you have been described as customer obsessed and have a passion for digital-first solutions, we invite you to learn more about the Enterprise Digital Sales organization and the value we deliver to our customers, partners, and one another, every day.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 40% from home.

If you're a team player with an entrepreneurial spirit, eager to learn, and interested in making an impact, delivering on outcomes for enterprise customers, come join our creative and inclusive global sales team. We value strong communication, collaboration, and motivated individuals who embrace connected sales and marketing innovation.

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

As an AI Workforce Digital Specialist, you will be a solution sales expert within our enterprise sales organization working with our most important customers. You will collaborate with a virtual team of technical, partner and consulting resources to advance the sales process and achieve/exceed solution sales targets in your assigned accounts. You will help customers evaluate their business challenges, recommend solutions that meet their requirements, and close new business resulting in customer value and satisfaction.

• Sales Execution: You will collaborate with virtual team members to identify customer business needs and contribute to the development of solutions.  Proactively build an external stakeholder network to and implement strategies to accelerate and close AI Workforce opportunities.
• Business Value Selling: You will foster and expand Microsoft's relationship with Customer Business Decision Makers. Hunt new AI Workforce opportunities by identifying and engaging with key business contacts, understanding customers' business and technology priorities, governance, decision and budget processes, and landing the value proposition of AI Workforce solutions.
• Scaling and Collaboration: You will collaborate with a network of internal partners on the planning, orchestration and execution of AI Workforce opportunities to cross-sell and up-sell.
• Technical Expertise: You will initiate AI Workforce Business Decision Maker conversations, share best practices and key competitor knowledge across solution areas acting as a subject matter expert to make recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal.
• Sales Excellence: You will collaborate with partners and resources to plan for accounts, do compete plans, forecasting, and business analysis to pursue high-potential customers and manage AI Workforce solutions across your accounts.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

6+ years sales and negotiation experience; OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) or related field AND 3+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

These are not mandatory, but a great guide as to what we are looking for in candidates.  If these skills and qualifications look like you, please submit your interest.

• 3-5+ years experience selling cloud services to large/global customers.
• Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Understanding partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions/services to solve customer needs.
• Knowledge of enterprise software solutions and cloud platform competitor landscape.
• Demonstrate the business value of Microsoft's solutions with an understanding of Microsoft's strategies and products relative to major Microsoft competitors.
• Experience of driving end to end sales with customers leveraging all sales programs available to you
• Ability to maintain a high level of productivity, manage competing priorities and work effectively with high levels of autonomy and self-direction in a fast-paced, collaborative, and dynamic teaming environment.
• Capacity to learn and retain knowledge about systems, processes, products, and services quickly and accurately.
• Build relationships, collaborate, and influence across organizations, functions, and stakeholder groups.
• Operational and sales excellence discipline, including planning, opportunity qualification and creation, stakeholder communication, services/partner engagement and sales excellence practices including pipeline and opportunity management.
• A desire to learn, grow, and drive change.
• Developing demand and pipe by building BDM and ITDM networking, assessing strategic customer objectives, digital transformation opportunity discovery, key improvement scenarios and an ability to measure and present incremental and new economic value from solutions proposed.
• Ability to sell solutions with connected end-to-end business transformation across business units within enterprise accounts.
• Disciplined sales operator demonstrated accuracy in forecasting business and maintaining pipeline hygiene.

Updated from 5+ to 6+, in accordance to the IC3 standard.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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,(including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.