The reinvention of business processes and technology is a growth engine for Microsoft cloud services. The mission of Microsoft Business Applications is to help our customers digitally transform their businesses to drive new sources of revenue, create new and engaging ways to serve their customers, and to transform the way in which their business runs to drive new levels of profitability for their organization in the rapidly evolving Digital Age.
As a Sales Specialist for Low/No Code and Power Platform solutions, you will help organizations transform their business processes and technology to adapt and thrive in today’s data-driven Digital Age. You will form strong relationships with C-Suite executives and Business Decision Makers from our top customers and help them solve their business challenges through long-term, consultative partnerships. You will help them achieve their business goals by bringing industry-relevant business value insights and leading solutions to enable their end-to-end business transformations. You will organize and lead the entire sales process, from account planning to closing the sale. You will also be responsible for delivering the One Microsoft narrative, competitive differentiation, customer centric pitch, value proposition and compelling proposals with commercial options. You will be part of a dedicated sales community supported by your adjoining account teammates and support teams.
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Sales Execution
- Engages in conversations with customers to introduce how other workloads could enable digital transformation areas that is aligned with the customer’s industry. Initiates conversations with customers on digital transformation on Low/No Code, in collaboration with partners and services. Shares learning on digital transformation through seminars, workshops, webinars, and direct engagement.
- 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). Collaborates with account teams, partners, or services to track and qualify 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 (MCEM) to determine the quality of the opportunity and whether to proceed.
- 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. For licensing transactions and project engagements, ensures rapid and robust deployment plan at point of sale that is validated by services and partners.
- Identifies customer business needs and technical readiness. Collaborates with internal teams, partners, and services to propose prioritized solutions that align with customers’ needs. Leverages the value propositions to communicate business impact of proposed solutions. Listens to customers to understand business outcomes.
- Develops an understanding of external stakeholders’ mapping, including who the decision makers and influencers are. Participates with account teams (e.g., Account Executives) in communication with business or subject matter decision makers at the customer’s/partner’s business.
- Implements strategies to help accelerate the closing of deals in collaboration with other team members. 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.
Scaling and Collaboration
- Collaborates with GPS (Global Partner Solutions) and with a network of partners to cross-sell and up-sell products, solutions, and services. Identifies new partners by researching and discussing with partners on customer scenarios. Develops joint proposal with partners. Implements partner strategies to scale the business.
- Applies the orchestration model to leverage relationships with stakeholders and partners.
Technical Expertise
- Extends relationships with peers and senior team members across solution areas. Creates connections at technical community events.
- Initiates conversations with prospective customers/partners at events to expand external network. Acts as a subject matter expert on Low/No code.
- Researches competitor products, solutions, and/or services and collaborates with the ‘compete’ global black belts (GBB) to implement strategies to position Microsoft against competitors in customer communication.
Sales Excellence
- Collaborates with partners and resources and learns about customer business. Supports senior team members to explore business and emerging opportunities.
- Seeks client feedback (both formal and informal) to identify and understand the drivers of satisfaction and execute plans to maintain and continue to build on it, and to identify and understand the drivers of dissatisfaction, determine the root cause of problems, and establish recovery action plan to improve clients’ overall experience. Shares feedback with account teams.
- 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.
- Manages the pipeline of the assigned territory. Conducts forecasting for assigned accounts and develops a portfolio and territory plan with guidance.
- Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry.
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
- OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 4+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
- 3 to 5 years of experience:
- Experience selling Low/No Code or cloud-based business processes to large enterprise accounts. Developing pipeline through BDM networking, assessing strategic customer objectives, digital transformation opportunity discovery, and an ability to measure and present incremental and new economic value from solutions proposed.
- Ability to sell connected end-to-end business transformation solutions across business units within accounts.
- Leading/orchestrating sales processes across account planning, opportunity planning, customer decision frameworks, evaluation plans and sophisticated business case discussions.
- Deal crafting, negotiating terms and contracts for multimillion-dollar digital transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrated accuracy in forecasting business and maintaining pipeline hygiene.
- Strong track record and history of exceeding sales quota.
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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