Digital Sales Enterprise, part of Microsoft's SMC and Digital 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 best-in-class digital engagement and partner co-selling. You will also have an opportunity to work collaboratively across teams while living our shared SMC and Digital Sales 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 Enterprise Digital Sales and the value we bring to our customers, partners, and one another, every day.
As an Enterprise Sales Manager within Digital Cloud Acquisition, you will lead a team of highly talented and skilled Digital Specialists to drive the day-to-day execution of Microsoft's strategic business priorities. Your team will provide and sell the best-in-class cloud service and platforms to our managed customers, building the momentum for digital transformation for our customers, partners, and Microsoft. The Enterprise Sales Manager is a great sales coach and leader, has a challenger mentality, is savvy in sales-leadership practice, and contributes with vision and flawless execution of solution sales across solution areas.
This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home
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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
**Responsibilities**:
- Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
- Customer Engagement: You will identify trends, assess risk, and create performance plans in weekly deal and pipeline reviews with senior leadership. You will ensure that team meets and exceeds monthly, quarterly, and annual team targets by generating sales pipeline; and for your sellers who have responsibilities to manage pipeline end-to-end, ensure they accelerate and drive active opportunities to close.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Coach your team to collaborate and leverage internal and external stakeholders to develop customer and partner relationships that build, expand and effectively progress opportunities and pipeline through the sales cycle within assigned territory. Facilitate and lead internal communication with the account team and senior-level leadership to get support for your team and eliminate barriers to success.
- Operational Excellence: You will provide reports in a timely manner on sales targets & key metrics, and contribute to correction-of-error plans as needed. You will play a pivotal role in driving adoption of new tools and processes, and data/operation rigor to provide accurate on-time reporting of business insights to reach strategic goals.
- Technical Skilling and Development: You will mentor sales team to drive sales conversations through call coaching of their customer sales calls, co-selling, and demo execution.
- Digital Tools and Programs: You will execute Digital Sales excellence through use of tools such as Sales Accelerator, LinkedIn to better identify, connect, and engage with customers and key decision makers and promote professional brand.
- Effectively lead your team through change, keeping them motivated and focused as customer needs and market conditions evolve in a digitally enabled environment.Other
- Embody our culture and value
**Qualifications**:
**Required Qualifications**:
- Master's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) is required AND 2+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) or related field AND 4+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience
- OR 7+ years sales and negotiation experience
- 2+ years people management experience.
**Additional** or **Preferred Qualifications**:
- 10+ years sales and negotiation experience
- Master's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) AND 5+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work.
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) OR related field AND 6