Microsoft

Digital Solution Area Specialists

Microsoft  •  Kuala Lumpur, MY (Onsite)  •  4 hours ago
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Job Description

Overview

Has a fundamental understanding of customers' business to initiate conversations with customers on digital transformation in a single solution area, in collaboration with partners and services. Collaborates with account teams, partners, or services to track, qualify, and expand new opportunities. Identifies, develops, proposes, and articulates solutions that align with customer needs. Develops an understanding of external stakeholders' mapping. Implements strategies to help accelerate the closing of deals in collaboration with other team members. Collaborates with One Commercial Partner (OCP) and with a network of partners to cross-sell, up-sell, and co-sell products, solutions and services. Applies the orchestration model to support deal closure. Researches competitor products, solutions, and/or services and collaborates with the "compete" global black belts (GBBs) to implement strategies to position Microsoft against competitors in customer communication. Manages and/or orchestrates sales and delivery success through the account team and pursuit team. Participates in rhythm-of-business (ROB) meetings to review and plan for accounts in the assigned territory. Collaborates with extended sales team, partners, and marketing to conduct business analysis to pursue high-potential customers and develop a target list of potential business. Manages the end-to-end business of the assigned territory.

Responsibilities

Communicating with ImpactEffectively communicating the value of solutions to both internal and external business stakeholders, ensuring that mutual objectives and priorities are clearly presented and understood, thereby driving successful outcomes in sales engagements

Required Upon Hire and Critical/Important

Conflict Resolution

The ability to manage conflict, disharmony, and strife among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.

English Language Proficiency

The ability to speak and understand English when giving instructions and directions, and when talking with colleagues, managers, and others for work matters.

Oral Communication

The ability to make a verbal message understood and to receive/understand messages during in-person or remote (e.g., telephone) interactions.

Presentations

The ability to create and deliver formal presentations to others. This includes sharing information on a range of topics in a clear, concise, engaging and convincing manner; commanding the audience’s attention; developing effective presentation materials (e.g., handouts, visual aids); and handling questions or argumentative positions from the audience.

Technical Communication

The ability to adapt communications around different technologies, products, and services to the audience's level of understanding.

Written Communication

The ability to prepare clear, accurate, and understandable written text, and follow the basic rules of spelling, grammar, and punctuation. This may include memos, emails, proposals, reports, and professional or general correspondence.

Cultivating Strategic PartnershipsOrchestrating and maintaining strong business relationships and partnerships, while nurturing executive relationships to establish credibility as an active listener and trusted advisor. Managing relationships and projecting executive presence to cultivate effective collaborative partnerships with customers, partners, and stakeholders, driving business growth.

Maximizing Business OpportunitiesMaximizing business objectives by leveraging a deep understanding of businesses and their needs, and opportunities across market, industry, and competition. Managing and prioritizing business development opportunities through market and industry analysis, recognizing customer needs, qualifying opportunities, and identifying how solutions, in collaboration with partners, can enable business capabilities that drive growth and innovation.

Optimizing Account OperationsManaging and optimizing sales accounts through strategic decision-making, deep understanding of sales cycle timeframes, and leveraging advanced tools, programs, and insights to drive KPIs. Orchestrating opportunities and deals by developing tailored sales strategies that drive successful business outcomes and maximize customer value realization.

Selling SolutionsSelling solutions by demonstrating value, persuasively negotiating mutually beneficial agreements, and consulting with stakeholders to challenge conventional thinking. Creatively navigating the sales process and using storytelling to envision transformation with the customer, effectively connecting anecdotes, data insights, and technical value to maximize and accelerate customer business impact.

Skills Not Mapped to CapabilitySkills Not Mapped to Capability

Strategically Managing Sales PipelinesAnalyzing business needs and market dynamics, gathering and analyzing relevant customer, partner and competitor insights and trends, and managing and informing change processes for current and future customers to advance and optimize sales pipelines.

Qualifications

Sales Excellence

Collaborates with partners and resources and leverages customer insights or industry knowledge; contributes to exploring business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and support customer innovation.

Participates in rhythm-of-business (ROB) meetings to review and plan for accounts in the assigned territory.

Reviews feedback report and coaches others on ensuring customer/partner satisfaction and decreasing dissatisfaction by establishing recovery action plans to improve clients' overall experience; manages and/or orchestrates sales and delivery success through the account team and pursuit team.

Manages the end-to-end business of the assigned territory; conducts forecasting for accounts and develops a portfolio and territory plan to drive intentional selling aligned with strategic priorities.

Sales Execution

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.

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.

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.

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 [GBBs]); for licensing transactions and project engagements, ensures rapid and robust deployment plan at point of sale that is validated by services and partners; identifies, articulates, and facilitates the removal of blockers to consumption by partnering with internal and external stakeholders.

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, account teams); collaborates with account teams, partners, or services to track, qualify, and expand 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 (MSP) to determine the quality of the opportunity and whether to proceed.

Engages in conversations with customers to introduce how other workloads could enable digital transformation areas that is aligned with the customer's industry; has a fundamental understanding of customers' business to initiate conversations with customers on digital transformation in a single solution area, in collaboration with partners and services; shares learning on digital transformation through seminars, workshops, Webinars, and direct engagement.

Scaling and Collaboration

Collaborates with One Commercial Partner (OCP) and with a network of partners to cross-sell, up-sell, and co-sell products, solutions and services; identifies new partners by researching and discussing with partners on customer scenarios; develops joint proposals and consumption plans with partners; implements partner strategies to scale the business.

Applies the orchestration model to support deal closure by identifying and aligning internal stakeholders and leveraging relationships with partners.

Technical Expertise

Researches competitor products, solutions, and/or services and collaborates with the "compete" global black belts (GBBs) to implement strategies to position Microsoft against competitors in customer communication.

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, 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.

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About Microsoft

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Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington
Year Founded
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