Role will be located in Phoenix, Denver or Southern California (Irvine or Los Angeles). Microsoft envisions a world where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envisioning what can be and taking their careers places, they simply couldn’t anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and sky’s-the-limit thinking - a cloud-enabled world. Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We have a unique capability to harmonize the needs of both individuals and organizations. We care deeply about taking our ideals and vision global and making a difference in lives and organizations in all corners of the planet. Do you always strive to learn?
The reinvention of business process represents a bold bet for Microsoft in accelerating our growth in commercial cloud services. The mission of Dynamics 365 is to help our customer digitally transform their businesses to drive new sources of revenue, create new and engaging ways to serve their customers, and to transform the way in which their business runs to drive new levels of profitability for their organization. As a Solutions Sales Manager, you will accelerate business by building ambitious sales plans to capitalize on transformational shifts occurring in the market place. You will develop smart selling solutions with partners to focus on business value, make deals bigger, faster, and more impactful. You will be a market-influencer able to leverage a strong and active Business Decision Maker network and challenge Sellers with insights and perspectives that empower them to adopt new practices, think differently and accelerate business growth. You are disciplined in business management and thrive in a complex solution selling world.
Responsibilities:
• Lead sellers to drive Dynamics business to overachieve targets
• Meets team sales and revenue targets
• Maintains the pipeline and the forecast to required operational standards
• Drives new business opportunities to achieve targets contributing positively to relevant subsidiary scorecard metrics
• Even higher levels of operational excellence. Ensure 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 Corporate levels.
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 intent to consume cloud services sold.
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.
Basic Requirements:
• A minimum of 7 years of sales experience is required.
Deep Understanding of:
• Business solutions, ERP & CRM and how they translate into business impact;
• The security, regulatory and compliance needs of global customers;
• Working knowledge of Microsoft’s commercial cloud offerings - including Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Azure desired.
• Competitors and related ecosystem;
• The latest business value selling methodologies, practices and technologies that drive sales prospecting and sales management in complex solution selling environments desired.
Desired Skills:
• Experience in solution sales for CRM, ERP, or similar business applications preferred.
• Experience selling software-as-a-service or cloud-based business applications to enterprise customers ideal.
• Identifying unique and complex business challenges and solutions desired.
• Experience leading multi-million-dollar business app deals requiring orchestration of large, dispersed, virtual teams composed of industry, solution, technical, licensing & legal team members preferred.
• Experience successfully displacing competitors, carrying and exceeding a large sales quota by driving and closing enterprise deals, demonstrated passion and commitment for customer success preferred.
• Demonstrated Sales and Sales Management experience in Industry-aligned Enterprise sales ideal.
• Excels at developing strong relationships and leadership connections to understand customer needs.
• Adept at challenging perspectives with new ideas that reframes thinking about deriving value from
• Microsoft solutions. Very strong presentation, white boarding and communication skills.
• Demonstrated people leader able to coach and inspire a diverse team of Solution Sales and Pre- Sales Professionals.
• Strong negotiating skills
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or Business Management or Industry related discipline ideal.
• MBA preferred.
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