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In SMC and Digital Sales, we have set out with the purpose to empower our customers through the unique value of the Microsoft cloud by building a globally led, digital-first scale organization aligned with partners. Dedicated to one of the fastest growing customer segments, the Small, Medium, Corporate (SMC) and Digital Sales organization is on pace to be Microsoft's next $100 billion-dollar business - this is where you come in.

As part of local subsidiaries or Digital Sales centers around the world, you will support a dedicated set of customers in identifying and achieving their business objectives through best-in-class digital engagement and partner co-selling. You will also have an opportunity to work cross-collaboratively while living our shared SMC and Digital Sales Culture priorities: Diversity and Inclusivity, Wellbeing, Sustainability, and Learning. If you have been described as customer obsessed and have a passion for digital-first solutions, we invite you to learn more about the SMC and Digital Sales organization and the value we deliver to our customers, partners, and one another, every day.

As an Azure Apps & Infrastructure Specialist, you will be a business leader with technical expertise working with our some of our most important managed customers.

You will lead a virtual team of sales, technical, and services resources to help customers realize digital transformation through cloud computing and achieve/exceed quarterly Azure Apps consumption targets for related workloads in your assigned accounts.

This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, honing your solution sales and collaboration skills, and deepening your cloud expertise.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

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.

Responsibilities

Sales Execution

• Engages in conversation with customers aligned to their industry and collaborates with account and partner team to drive and qualify new opportunities and build pipeline.

• Identifies customer business and technology readiness, proactively builds external stakeholders' mapping, implements strategies to accelerate the closing of deals, coaches junior team members in deal plan execution, and implements close plans.

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Scaling and Collaboration

• Applies role orchestration model and navigates the Microsoft organization to bring the best impact to the customer.​

• Collaborates with Global Partner Solutions (GPS), identifies new partners, develops joint proposals with partners, and contributes to developing partner strategies.

Technical Expertise

• Leverages and shares competitor knowledge across solution areas as a subject matter expert to inform decisions on pursuit or withdrawal.

• Leads conversations and sets up events within Microsoft, mentors others and develops strategies for best practice sharing.

• Collaborates with the 'compete' SMEs internally to analyze competitor products, solutions, and/or services and implement strategies. ​

• Delivers results through teamwork

• 40% of your time will be spent with customers identifying and surfacing new engagements that align with the customer’s business strategy.

• 40% of your time will be spent on being the key technical leader, trusted advisor and influencer in shaping customer decisions to buy, architect and adopt Microsoft Application Development solutions.

• Lead presentations, demonstrations, whiteboarding sessions & architecture design sessions to explain, demonstrate, and prove to our largest customers the capabilities of Microsoft Azure, and how we can make their businesses more successful.

• 20% of your time will be spent on influencing the Microsoft Application Development platform go to market strategies by providing feedback to sales, marketing, and engineering

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated technology-related sales or account management experience

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND technology-related sales or account management experience

• OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND technology-related sales or account management experience

• Understanding of Microsoft Azure Cloud platform with emphasis on Azure Infrastructure solutions including IaaS and PaaS based environments, and Azure based application management and governance

Language Skills: Norwegian & English

Position is based in: Dublin, Ireland

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