You will be joining the Microsoft Digital Sales Cloud Acquisition organization whose charter is to accelerate Microsoft’s cloud growth. This organization is at the forefront of establishing a new sales models leveraging modern technology and data-first analytics driving impactful demand response with high-propensity targeted sales coverage. The reinvention of business processes is a double-digit growth engine for Microsoft cloud services.  The mission of the Digital Sales organization focused on Modern Work is to help our customers 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.

Responsibilities

The Digital Sales Representative –Cloud Acquisition Digital Sales role for Modern Work focuses on working with Microsoft’s account teams to identify and drive opportunities in targeted workloads.  As a Digital Sales Representative, you will work closely with Modern Work Sales Executives and partners to plan and execute account coverage, rapidly response to digital signals and effectively turn prospects/qualified leads to opportunities and revenue pipeline, increase customer adds. The role is adept at understanding the needs and process pains of customers to identify opportunities where Microsoft Modern Work solutions can add long-term value. 

You will be a customer-centric and outcome-driven business process transformation enabler within the Microsoft Digital Sales organization working with our customers helping them with their end-to-end business transformation needs by envisioning solutions and mapping capabilities with associated business value to business decision maker persona pains/needs.   

You will execute with excellence the sales process by orchestrating a virtual pursuit team of technically-intense solution workload experts including presales and co-sell partners.  You’ll provide customers with solutions aligned to their end-to-end business transformation needs using Microsoft Modern Work portfolio of solution offerings. 

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities

Build Pipe in alignment with Account Teams & Cross-Solution Areas- Build customer pipeline by effectively turning prospects into opportunities using data-first analytics, qualified account-based marketing leads and leveraging cutting-edge, industry-leading virtual engagement tools and best practices landing new customers. 

Envision Customer-Centric Solutions with Business Value Insights- Discover and envision Modern Work needs among our customers, with business value insights working with a pursuit team of technically intense workload experts and partner resources to quantify and qualify end-to-end connected solution use cases expanding opportunity value across line of business BDMs.

Engage with Partner(s)- Leverage and scale through aligning early with priority co-sell partners and ISVs.

Develop Close Plan & Secure Customer Agreement to Envisioned Solution- Gain customer agreement by successfully presenting the business case for change, aligning business pains with envisioned solution and associated business value.

Orchestrate Solution Design & Demonstration- Orchestrate, bringing clarity to pursuit team of technical workload sellers and partners to ensure designed solution(s) maps to envisioned solution and business value.

Negotiate with Proposals mapped to Business Value- Create compelling presentations with proposals aligned to customer transformation plan mapped to business value impact leveraging virtual team and Microsoft leaders when required to expedite close and resolve stalemate/inaction.

Qualifications

Requirements

3+ years of experience and Native in German:

Experience selling cloud-based business process automation solutions to customer accounts exceeding sales targets.

Developing demand and pipeline as a virtual digital seller by engaging with the right stakeholders, assessing strategic customer objectives, digital transformation opportunity discovery and key improvement scenarios with the ability to quantify and present economic value for proposed solutions.

Working within a digitally equipped sales organization engaging with customers throughout the sales process.

Ability to use programs, offers and resources that drive customer interest and understanding of the solution impact in the Digital Transformation process

Generating demand and selling solutions that emphasized connected end-to-end business transformation across lines of business within assigned accounts.

Orchestrating sales processes across account planning, opportunity planning, customer decision frameworks and engaging in business case discussions.

Ability to create compelling presentations with proposals aligned to customer transformation plan mapped to business value impact.  

Demonstrated accuracy in forecasting business and maintaining pipeline hygiene.

Track record and history of exceeding sales quota.

Understanding of:

Modern Work cloud-based solutions.

Commercial cloud offerings, ideally including Microsoft’s cloud platform as well as competitors and related ecosystems.

The security, regulatory and compliance needs of global customers.

Desired Skills:

Solution discovery and envisioning skills

Strong virtual presentation, whiteboarding and communication skills

Passion and commitment for customer success

Ability to maintain a high level of productivity, manage multiple competing priorities, and work effectively under the pressure of time constraints in a fast-paced, complex, collaborative and team-oriented environment.

Organizational agility, able to coordinate stakeholders across field and technical sales and partner.

Problem solver and ability to work in rapidly changing environment effectively managing ambiguity.

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.