Overview

Cloud & AI (Azure) Sales Manager Role

Brings impactful industry insights into customer engagements and closes deals with customers. Coaches team members on interfacing with prospective customers to build network. Leads with technical and industry insights on how to grow customer business and remove blockers to consumption. Helps team create vision for the customers and develop plans to drive sales. Engages C-Suite decision makers to support teams on opportunity discovery and acceleration. Leads team in development and implementation of strategies for driving and closing opportunities. Leads their team to develop strategies for driving and closing opportunities. Contributes to the development of the orchestration model. Supports their team in organization and participation in Microsoft events. Leads team to connect Microsoft solutions to customer business impact. Builds and transforms new markets by leveraging technical and industry expertise, partners, and resources. Establishes standards for customer/partner experiences. Engages with external executives to bring a more strategic perspective into the planning portion of account planning. Aligns the business analysis approach across teams. Oversees the end-to-end business across geographical regions. Leads team in growing knowledge and ensures the team's training completions and certification obtainment. In addition, this role has people-management responsibilities including driving employee growth and development, executing projects, and managing performance.

Responsibilities

People Management

Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model: Live our culture. Embody our values. Practice our leadership principles. Coach: Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries. Help the team adapt and learn. Care: Attract and retain great people. Know each individual's capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others.

Sales Excellence

Participates in regular strategic planning for their assigned territory review plans via rhythm-of-business (ROB) meetings and aligns the plans of their team across departments guides team to align their approach with sales excellence team engages with external executives to bring a more strategic perspective into the planning portion of account planning.

Builds and transforms new markets by leveraging technical and industry expertise, partners, and resources leads a team to explore business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and facilitate customer innovation.

Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry mentors/coaches the team on growing knowledge on sales or products and ensures the team complete training and obtain certifications as required.

Oversees the end-to-end business across geographical regions ensures their team meet sales targets and operational standards and maintains the health of metrics within the assigned territory interacts with Corporate leadership and senior-level stakeholders to get support for their team and the geographical regions.

Guides their team in whitespace analysis and supports the team to identify potential business in the assigned territory aligns the analysis approach across teams acts as a thought leader and validates opinions and perspectives from business analysis.

Lays out customer satisfaction long-term strategies proactively promotes development of deep and influential relationships with client contacts guides their team on ensuring customer/partner satisfaction and facilitates the resolution of sales/delivery issues for strategic accounts establishes standards for customer/partner experiences.

Sales Execution

Coaches their team to collaborate with partners and other internal teams (e.g., Technical Sales Professionals, global black belts [GBBs]) and to engage customers to drive consumption leads with technical and industry insights on how to grow customer business and remove blockers to consumption.

Leads their team to develop strategies for driving and closing opportunities drives the implementation of strategies and the collaboration with the account team to ensure alignment leads their team on ways to implement and share 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.

Guides and orchestrates their team on communicating with customers to understand their business needs or facilitates customer interactions to assess customer needs provides direction/guidance on the development of solutions across solution areas and support areas helps the team create vision for the customers and develop plans to drive sales.

Coaches their team and/or other teams (e.g., account team units [ATUs]) on identifying and engaging decision makers and stakeholders to expand the relationship with customers/partners engages C-Suite decision makers to support teams on opportunity discovery and acceleration represents their team internally at Microsoft as they engage other internal stakeholders.

Leads their teams to identify and track new opportunities leverages stakeholders (e.g., account-aligned team unit) to build pipeline within the territory coaches team members on interfacing with prospective customers to build network applies Microsoft's sales process (MSP) to determine the quality of the opportunity and whether to proceed and educate the customers on how to best address their needs.

Brings impactful industry insights into customer engagements and closes deals with customers acts as a thought leader in digital transformation across solution areas to advise customers and represent Microsoft, and coaches others internally on how to do this leads transformational shifts to drive deployment and create business value for customers based on specific business needs and priorities leads a virtual cross-organizational team on strategic projects and high-impact solution sales deployments that enable digital transformation and deliver business value may lead partner integration into account/territory planning and customer engagements.

Scaling and Collaboration

Guides their team to build a network of partners to cross-sell, up-sell, and co-sell leads the team to identify new partners, evaluate partner capabilities, and supports on-boarding new partners facilitates the development of partner strategies and ensures execution provides input and feedback to One Commercial Partner (OCP) on developing partner strategies and consumption plans, and building partner capabilities.

Coaches their team to learn about and apply the orchestration model facilitates and leads internal communication and collaboration by identifying resources and removing barriers contributes to the development of the orchestration model.

Technical Expertise

Supports their team on participating in Microsoft events contributes to setting up the events and promoting best practice sharing across subsidiaries.

Coaches their team on business and market knowledge leads team's internal collaboration to position Microsoft products, solutions, and/or services against competitors acts as a thought leader to help their team connect Microsoft solutions to customer business impact.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 7+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 9+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 10+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 11+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.

6+ years of solution or services sales experience.

3+ years of people management experience.

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, sex (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.

Digital Solution Sales Manager