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Microsoft Corporation Account Technology Strategist in Athens, Greece
We are looking to hire an Account Technology Strategist
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Microsoft’s Enterprise Account Team focuses on empowering customers on their digital journey. This team is responsible for envisioning new possibilities for our customers, delivering solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and driving revenue growth for Microsoft.
As an Enterprise Account Technology Strategist, you will have the opportunity to design and drive digital technology initiatives in partnership with your customers, both supporting your customers’ desired business outcomes and achieving Microsoft’s business objectives.
Paired with an Enterprise Account Executive, leveraging your large, multi-functional v-team across the breadth of the Microsoft product portfolio and the vast catalog of Microsoft Partner offerings, you will build and grow your network of technology executives within your customers and bring industry-relevant solutions to help the customers adopt and embrace digital technologies.
With a proven history of innovating technical solutions to achieve customers’ business objectives and achieving account growth targets, this role will give you the opportunity to combine your technology and industry knowledge to deliver digital solutions to accelerate your customers’ digital vision and to ultimately become their technology mentor.
Responsibilities
You synthesize business insights and orchestrate global teams across the organization to deliver alternative solutions while applying deep expertise and thought leadership.
You act as a "virtual Chief Technical Officer" to provide Account Thought leadership, leverage deep knowledge of Microsoft's solutions, industry, and customer needs, and act as the voice of the customer (VOC), industry, and team.
You lead technology strategy formulation by leading alignment of customer needs and technology solutions, execution of technology strategy/digital transformation, creation of mid- to long-term technical roadmaps, and translation of customer business objectives.
You develop and drive opportunities, present opportunities to the customer, and create demand.
You coach peers on how to create and maintain an opportunity initiation and how to map Microsoft priorities to opportunities.
You lead digital transformation using corporate and cross-industry resources and partner with line-of-business leader or senior executive to articulate the benefits of Microsoft technology over competitor solutions. You help customer technical specialists sell Microsoft offerings.
You map technical customer requirements and business scenarios to Microsoft technology platforms. You orchestrate necessary teams and partners to ensure demand generation and establish best practices for account planning. You deliver regular industry/technology briefings to customer technology senior decision-makers and technical teams. You use readiness resources and demonstrate expertise in creating enablement plans.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND significant technical consulting, technical consultative selling, business consulting, practice building, or related technical/sales experience
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .