Solution Area Specialists Manager

Microsoft

3h

About The Position

Join the Retail and Consumer Goods Organization as a Solution Area Specialist Manager who provides direction and guidance across cross-functional teams in leading strategic discussions with executive stakeholders and decision makers for high-value customers to deepen relationships and identify, qualify, and accelerate sales opportunities. Defines overarching strategy for regional teams on whitespace analysis and proactively uncovers business opportunities and market gaps within the assigned territory, utilizing AI-driven market intelligence tools to assess trends and insights. Provides strategic oversight for regional territory analysis and guides sales initiatives that address complex customer business priorities and outcomes, incorporating AI-driven predictive analytics to forecast future market needs. Strategically directs multiple teams across regions in the innovation and deployment of solutions to advance artificial intelligence (AI)- and cloud-driven transformations for a broad customer base, emphasizing the integration of cutting-edge AI technologies and cloud services. Empowers team to drive comprehensive sales pipeline reviews across the territory with internal executive stakeholders to drive forecasting accuracy and exceed sales targets, ensuring the use of AI-powered analytics and forecasting tools to enhance precision. Oversees team on directing and implementing sales strategy tailored to each customer's security priorities, showcasing Microsoft's dedication to secure, AI-powered transformation and addressing their specific needs within the customer success plan, fostering long-term partnerships through AI-driven insights. In addition, this role has people management responsibilities including driving employee growth and development, executing projects, and managing performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management
• Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role's job duties.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 15+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management
• 10+ years services sales or account management experience.
• 5+ years people management experience.
• 2+ years manager of managers experience.

Responsibilities

• Customer Engagement
• People Management
• Sales & Pipeline Management
• Sales Strategy

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees