What can we offer you?

Our headquarters in Reading (Berkshire) is a campus of fantastic offices and great facilities, such as an onsite gym, restaurants and crèche, as well as our inclusive work culture that celebrates diversity.

We offer flexible work arrangements, programs, resources, and tools to help employees achieve greater work life balance. As well as resources, such as generous maternity and paternity leave policies, we give you the freedom to set your own rules for how you work, where you work, and even when you work.

You will get a competitive base salary plus sales bonus and an excellent benefits package including stock options and a car. Microsoft has a flexible working culture and on an average week your time could be split between the office, customer locations and home. 

Diversity at Microsoft

To help foster diversity and inclusion, Microsoft has a rich community of Employee Resource Groups (ERG) and Employee Networks (EN) that will help inspire you. A commitment to promote and celebrate cultural, ethnic, gender and lifestyle diversity.     

These groups provide career development, support, networking opportunities, mentoring, community participation, product input, and assistance in activities that promote cultural awareness.

This is an opportunity to take your career to the next level, so apply now and start the conversation.

Responsibilities

As a Partner Technology Strategist (PTS) you will be working with some of our most influential partners who sell solutions based on the Microsoft platform - many of them cloud-based - providing them with the information, inspiration and advice they need to be successful.  You’ll be doing things like offering technical guidance to senior decision makers, delivering presentations and webinars, and helping to shape a successful team. You’ll be anchored in helping them to build a successful cloud platform today but there’ll be opportunity to think about and work with emerging technologies, too.

Qualifications

Experiences Required: Education, Key Experiences, Skills and Knowledge.

• Significant experience of working effectively at board level in or with FTSE 500 companies.
• Proven senior technical sales / consulting leadership experience in an industry.
• Fluent understanding of the business and technical complexities of selling, and driving the adoption of, cloud transformation projects.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking to large and small audiences.
• Ability to drive complex discussions and engagements through a broad virtual team.
• Expertise in cloud computing, such as Azure, with Microsoft or other technologies.
• A strong passion for today’s and tomorrow’s technology with specific interests in Cloud based computing.
• Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly and concisely to people at all levels, with or without a technical background.
• Ability to understand and resolve complex business and technical issues.

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. 

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