Microsoft is empowering every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more. We have set ourselves three bold ambitions: create more personal computing, reinvent productivity and business processes and build the intelligent cloud. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. As part of our transformation, one of our key areas of focus is the modernization of our sales motions.
The Digital Sales organization is a newly formed organization with a charter to accelerate Microsoft’s growth in its cloud-first, mobile-first businesses along with the traditional businesses. This organization is at the forefront of establishing a new sales model leveraging modern technology and big data and analytics to drive impactful demand response and targeted sales coverage. Do you possess superior leadership, communications and consultative capabilities? Microsoft is seeking a manager with deep interest in cutting-edge technology to join our Marketing and Sales Center as the Inside Sales Leader for our Brazilian region.
This role is for a passionate sales leader, with proven sales acumen, pipeline management skills, great attention to detail, and the ability to effectively prioritize and multi-task. If you are a business leader with an entrepreneurial spirit, endless drive, and a passion for business development and client relations we want to hear from you. In summary this leader will focus on further building, developing and managing the Digital Sales Team that works across some of the largest organizations in Brazil by executing sales strategies that will exceed aggressive revenue goals achieved both by driving sales and working cross-functionally with product specialists, marketing, and finance teams.
As the Digital Sales Manager, you will manage a team of highly-talented and skilled sales specialists, driving the day-to-day execution to exceed business performance targets and coaching team members. The Inside Account Executives teams consist of highly capable sales people that drive Microsoft wins on the latest cloud and modern development technologies. The team members’ primary responsibilities are to engage with customers as the central point of contact all the way to deal close.
-Build a world class team of Inside Account Executives focused on delivering high-impact results
-Hire top talent, develop the team, and create career paths within the broader sales organization
-Serve as primary interface with internal teams including Product Managers, Vendor Management, Vendor Technology, and Account Management teams to align programs and initiatives to drive growth
-Implement sales strategies and best practices that lead to long-term growth
-Establish partnerships with internal teams to manage joint selling opportunities
-Build, motivate and mentor a high-functioning inside sales team to lead and drive sales conversations; hire new Inside Sales Representatives.
-Lead team to meet and exceed monthly, quarterly and annual team targets by generating sales pipeline, accelerating active opportunities and driving to close.
-Lead team to actively engage accounts to drive services consumption and up-sell and cross-sell based on strategic plans and needs.
-Accurately forecast, assess risk and identify exceptional performance plans in weekly deal and pipeline reviews with senior management.
-Lead team members through example. Lead and coach team members through strong call coaching of their customer sales calls, demos and experience sessions over Skype for Business.
-Coach teams to excel at opportunity management and forecasting accuracy to successfully plan and prioritize weekly, monthly and quarterly engagements, e.g. through joint customer calls.
-Coach team members in modern sales and communications tools & techniques to effectively reach, sell to and manage Microsoft customers, including coaching the team to engage in product demos.
-Report on monthly, quarterly and annual sales targets and deliver competitive business insights, trends and analysis to drive ongoing performance improvements.
-Drive operational excellence of key center metrics including response rates, conversions, pipeline, velocity and accuracy.
-Manage the collaboration and teaming of different roles such as Sales Development Specialists, Inside Sales Representatives, and Inside Technical Solution Professionals to -effectively progress opportunities and pipeline through the sales cycle.
-Improve sales and technical competency via mentoring; support individual professional development and growth.
-Constantly research and educate self with the newest developments in cloud capabilities and pricing for both Microsoft and competitors.
-Obsess over Microsoft’s customers and prospects to deliver a world-class customer engagement experience.
-Manage employee performance from not meeting expectations to exceptional.
