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ID #43406626
State Massachusetts
City Boston
Full-time
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Microsoft Corporation
Showed 2022-06-20
Date 2022-06-21
Deadline 2022-08-20
Category Et cetera
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Specialist Sales Director of Azure- Infrastructure

Massachusetts, Boston, 02108 Boston USA

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Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.The Azure Infrastructure Specialist Manager is a senior leader within our enterprise sales organization. The Azure Infrastructure Specialist Manager leads, develops and manages a team of high performing Azure Infrastructure, Azure SAP and Azure Customer Acquisition Specialist Managers to drive solution opportunity revenue and market share by executing the Migrate, Modernize, and Enable sales priorities to migrate infrastructure workloads to Azure including SAP, modernize existing applications leveraging the Azure platform and services, and solutions built using Microsoft Azure, and related technologies.The Azure Infra Specialist Manager is responsible for:Sales:Lead managers running the Azure Core (Infrastructure Business) across the West Region, with a deep focus on enterprise accounts.

Develops their seller’s Solution Sales and technical skills to sell the business outcomes of the broader Azure Infra platform

Drives strong partnership with sales team and other teams engaging in the customer (e.g. partners, services, Customer Success, engineering support, etc.)

Maintains the pipeline and the forecast to required operational standards

Drives new business opportunities to achieve targets contributing positively to relevant subsidiary scorecard metrics

Drives higher levels of operational excellence. Ensures appropriate 4 quarter qualified pipeline in place by workload/solution.

People Management:Develops a high-performing team by hiring diverse talent, prioritizing development, leading by example and by preparing people for more senior positions in other parts of the organization.

Coaches Seller’s with a “challenger mentality” by prompting Seller’s to engage early and lead with new insights on how to grow the customers’ business.

Successful teams and team members are recognized and rewarded, both within the sales organization and at Corporate levels.

Drives cross-team collaboration with CSU, ATU and other STU peers

Customer centricity:Lead from the front, personally engaging at CxO level to support and coach teams on opportunity discovery and acceleration

Lead sellers to drive end-to-end business solutions, increasing customer and partner satisfaction and average deal sizes YoY.

Lead cross-team to ensure customer commitment to consume to migrate and expand cloud services.

Partner Engagement:Bring together Microsoft solutions with Partner solutions, fully leverage the synergy effect with our partners, and co-sell with them to make deals bigger and faster.

ResponsibilitiesWhat You DoResponsibilitiesPeople ManagementManagers 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 ExecutionBrings impactful industry insights into customer engagements and helps close deals with customers and coaches and influences others internally on how to do this. Influences Microsoft's strategic direction across various markets. Acts as a thought leader in digital transformation across solution areas to advise customers. Leads a virtual cross-organizational team to drive 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.

Leads a team to support the account teams and drive conversations with strategic/high-potential customers. Facilitates stakeholders (e.g., Customer Success team unit, account-aligned team unit, Specialist Team Unit, One Commercial Partner organization) to build pipeline across territories. Sets best practices on social selling and guides others on how to do this, and drives consistency across domains/regions. 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.

Coaches their team to collaborate with partners and other internal teams (e.g., Technical Sales Professionals, Global Black Belts). Leads with technical and industry insights on how to grow the strategic customer business.

Guides 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 regions. 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 unit (ATU), specialist team unit (STU)) on identifying and engaging decision makers and stakeholders to expand the relationship with customers/partners. Engages C-Suite decision makers for strategic customers to support teams on opportunity discovery and acceleration. Represents their team internally at Microsoft as they engages other internal stakeholders.

Leads their team to develop strategies for driving and closing strategic (highly complex, high value) 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.

Scaling and CollaborationGuides their team to build a network of partners to cross-sell and up-sell. Leads the team to identify new partners and evaluate partner capabilities. Facilitates the development of partner strategies and ensures execution. Leverages global resources to help connect the partner ecosystems to form new market opportunities.

Guides their team to apply the orchestration model Establishes approach and practices to promote communication and collaboration across functions. Contributes to the development of the orchestration model and drives consistency across territories.

Technical ExpertiseSupports their team on participating in Microsoft events. Contributes to setting up the events and promoting best practice sharing across subsidiaries.

Acts as the spokesman for Microsoft at external events. Provides expertise to customers/partners and shares knowledge on a specific platform or market.

Coaches their team on business and market knowledge. Develops strategies to position Microsoft products, solutions, and/or services against competitors. Initiates discussions to share industry trends and insights across the organization.competitors. Acts as a thought leader to help their team connect Microsoft solutions to customer business impact.

Sales ExcellenceBuilds 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.

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.

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.

Guides their team in whitespace analysis and supports the team to identify potential business in the assigned territory. Develops and aligns the analysis approach across the organization. Acts as a thought leader and clears opinions and perspectives from business analysis.

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 executive-level stakeholders to get support for their team and the geographical regions.

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. Seek additional learning opportunities and prioritize to enhance effectiveness.

OtherEmbody our culture and values

QualificationsWhat You NeedQualificationsRequired/Minimum Qualifications9+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience aligned to ISV's building on Azure, with a strong GTM component.

OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.

Understanding transformational and creative deal-making

Deep knowledge of the cloud landscape - Azure, AWS and GCP, are critical to the success of this role.

Experience in People Leadership, Performance Management, Compensation and recruiting top-talent is a critical aspect of this role. Futher, investing in diversity, and building a diverse team/culture is of utmost importance.

Deep knowledge of consumption models, cloud migrations, and driving new workload acceleration.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications12+ 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 Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.

10+ years of services sales or account management experience.

5+ years of people management experience.

2+ years of manager of managers experience.

How You Do ItKnowledge, Skills, Abilities· Account Management· Business Acumen· Business Knowledge· Business Relationship Management· Challenger Mindset· Change Management· Competitive Intelligence· Conflict Resolution· Consultative Selling· Creativity· Decision Making· English Language Proficiency· Executive Relationships· Financial Analysis· Forecasting· Market Knowledge· Microsoft Consulting Services· Microsoft Product Knowledge· Microsoft Support Services· Negotiation· Operational Excellence· Opportunity/Deal Orchestration· Presentations· Problem Solving· Sales Strategy· Sell-With Partners· Social Selling· Storytelling· Technical Communication· Technical Sales· Technical Solutions· Technology Industry Knowledge· Trusted Technical Advisor· Written CommunicationInternal Use Only: Culture and ValuesLearn more about Microsoft’s Culture: Culture - Home (sharepoint.com) (https://microsoft.sharepoint.com/sites/Culture)

Learn more about Microsoft Values: Values - Home (sharepoint.com) (https://microsoft.sharepoint.com/sites/Values)

Learn more about Leadership Principles: Leadership Principles - Leadership Principles (sharepoint.com) (https://microsoft.sharepoint.com/sites/leadershipprinciples/SitePages/Home.aspx)

Learn more about Management Excellence: Management excellence - Home (sharepoint.com) (https://microsoft.sharepoint.com/sites/ManagementExcellence)

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest) .Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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