Microsoft New Vacancy

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Job Description

Job Title: Services Account Executive

Purpose

The Services Account Executive (AE) is a trusted advisor to Microsoft’s Enterprise customers. Working closely with your Enterprise & Partner Group (EPG) colleagues to ensure a “One Enterprise” customer experience, you lead the Microsoft Services virtual team to provide your customer with the solutions needed to make a difference in their business and for their customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand and anticipate your customer’s business needs, and offer the right Microsoft solutions to meet those needs.
• Demonstrate the business value of Microsoft solutions within your customer(s), focusing on how we can help them achieve their desired business outcomes, enabled by digital transformation
• Ensure that your customers are using and/or consuming the Microsoft services and products they have purchased.
• Orchestrate the Microsoft virtual team, including partners where appropriate, that supports you in selling and supporting your customer(s).
• Meet your revenue and priority targets, maintaining a healthy pipeline to ensure appropriate velocity and coverage to meet quota, and providing accurate forecasts.

Experience & Results

Degree Qualified – BA or BSc
5+ years of experience in solution sales

Knowledge & Capabilities

Executes recognized sales strategies and processes including: account planning; pipeline & opportunity management & forecasting; & deal strategy, close planning & stakeholder management

Understands market-specifics for at least 1 sector/industry

Skills & Competencies

• Delivers value in Customer relationships, based on customer business outcomes and priorities
• Demonstrates listening and consultative role-modelling using “story-telling”
• Develops strong relationships with Business Decision Makers and Technical Decision Makers throughout the customer’s organization
  Communicates clearly and persuasively
• Ensures proactive customer planning, championing the importance of joint planning both internally (across the internal virtual sales teams) and with the customer
• Leverages business model, industry and vertical expertise to create plans and solutions
• Proactively seeks and leverages diverse organizational perspectives to bring together creative, relevant customer solutions that drive business impact
• Creates, and sustains partnerships and virtual teams with other Microsoft and Partner stakeholder groups to provide value for customers
• Builds and sustains long-term and profitable customer relationships, successfully balancing customer satisfaction and revenue growth