AI Workforce, Digital Sales Specialist

Overview

• Digital Enterprise Sales (DES), as part of Microsoft’s Global Enterprise Sales organization, empowers our customers through the unique value of the Microsoft Cloud by building a globally led, digital-first scale organization aligned with partners.
• As part of our local subsidiaries or Digital Sales centers around the world, you will engage a dedicated set of enterprise customers to identify and achieve their business objectives through digital engagement and partner co-selling.
• You will also have an opportunity to work collaboratively across teams while living our Global Enterprise Sales and Culture priorities: Diversity and Inclusivity, Wellbeing, Sustainability, and Customer Obsession.
• If you have a passion for driving digital first solutions and delivering customer satisfaction, we invite you to learn more about Digital Enterprise Sales team and the value we bring to our customers, partners, and one another, every day.
• As part of our transformation, one of our key areas of focus is the modernization of our sales motions. The Global Enterprise Sales organization with a charter to achieve Microsoft and Customer business outcomes with a focus on AI, Copilot and Security.

As an AI Workforce Solution Area Specialist you will be a solution sales specialist within our enterprise sales organization, working closely with our most valued customers. You will collaborate with a virtual team of technical specialists, partners and consulting resources to advance the sales process and consistently exceed solution sales targets in your assigned accounts.

Your role is pivotal in helping customers navigate their business challenges, recommending solutions tailored to their unique requirements, and securing new business that results in unparalleled customer value and satisfaction. You will play a vital role in driving business growth by generating pipeline, engaging with prospective clients, building relationships, and closing sales.

It will be essential to understand the specific pain points and requirements of the customer's industry or organization and how AI will enable a whole new way of working. You will demonstrate how these solutions can optimize workflows, enhance productivity, and improve employee engagement will be key to successfully promoting Microsoft's offerings and help organizations unlock the full potential of their workforce.

You will drive the day-to-day execution of Microsoft's strategic business priorities, lead the generative AI narratives and sell cloud services and platforms to our managed customers.

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: You will collaborate with virtual team members end-to-end, to identify customer business needs and contribute to the development of solutions. Proactively build an external stakeholder network to accelerate and close AI Workforce opportunities.
• Business Value Selling: You will deepen and broaden Microsoft’s relationships with Customer Business Decision Makers. Hunt new opportunities by engaging with key business contacts, understanding customers’ business and technological priorities, governance, decision-making, and budgeting processes, and articulating the value proposition of AI Workforce solutions.
• Scaling and Collaboration: You will collaborate with a network of internal partners on the planning, orchestration and execution of opportunities to cross-sell and up-sell.
• Technical Expertise: You will initiate conversations with AI Business Decision Makers, share practices and key competitor knowledge across solution areas to make recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal decisions.
• Sales Excellence: You will collaborate with partners and resources to plan for accounts, conduct compete planning, forecasting, and business analysis to target high-potential customers and manage AI productivity solutions across your accounts.

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 3+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
• OR 4+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
• Global collaboration is integral to our work at Microsoft, and proficiency in English is essential for effective communication in this role.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 4+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
• OR 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
• 2+ years of solution sales or consulting services sales experience

Additional information

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.