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Microsoft aspires to help our customers achieve their digital transformation goals by leveraging the power of Microsoft Cloud solutions and support offerings. To this end, Microsoft is scaling the Azure business that will help Microsoft customers successfully realize their business outcomes.

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. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

Azure Digital & Application Innovation business is one of the fastest growing businesses in Microsoft India, addressing the increasing customer demand for extracting value and insights to enable businesses to digitally transform.

As the Solution Sales Specialist for Digital & Application Innovation, you will manage a set of named enterprise accounts for a given vertical to drive modernization & digital transformation initiaves for the customer. In this position you will have the opportunity to lead the innovative and thought leading cloud migration & modernization conversation with some of the most fast paced and tech savvy industry experts. You are expected to create the Digital and App Innovation business plan and land them in your accounts to increase Azure consumption/revenue by collaborating with the core Account team, Solution Architects, Global Black Belt and partner teams. All of this while being part of one of the most dynamic and innovative segments in the tech market today. You will need to demonstrate your expertise in leading customer engagements, demonstrating your expertise in the Digital & App Innovation cloud and Azure space, as well as driving a positive, inclusive and high energy culture.

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.

Responsibilities

The candidate is expected to:

· Brings impactful industry insights into customer engagements and closes deals with customers. Acts as a thought leader across solution areas to advise customers across business functions on digital transformation. Leads virtual transformational shifts to drive deployment and create business value for customers. May lead partner integration into account/territory planning and customer engagements. Provides thought leadership.

· Orchestrates with team members on conducting personal campaigns to discover new opportunities and generate new leads. Lads conversations with strategic/high-potential customers (e.g., high budget, global account, highly competitive) along with account teams or partners. Facilitates the account team unit and/or Specialist Team to build pipeline in collaboration with partners and services. Guides others on social selling. Applies Microsoft's sales process (MSP) to determine the quality of the opportunity and whether to proceed, and educate the customers on how to best address their needs.

· Drives consumption and grow business with existing strategic customers by initiating conversations, guiding others on demos or quotes, and the collaboration with partners or internal teams (e.g., Technical Sales Professionals, Global Black Belts). For licensing transactions and project engagements, ensures rapid and robust deployment plan at point of sale that is validated by services and partners. Drives advanced workloads and usage.

· Explores and assesses the needs of strategic/high-potential customers. Articulates business value and long-term implications for customer business. Collaborates with internal teams, partners, and services to lead the proposal or development of solutions that align with customer and Microsoft priorities. Analyzes market trends to identify opportunities for new solutions.

· Proactively builds and governs external stakeholder network and leverages internal partners to engage external stakeholders. Acts as a thought leader and subject matter advisor to the executive-level business decision makers at the customer's/partner's business. Guides others on identifying and engaging decision makers and stakeholders to expand the relationship with customers/partners.

· Develops strategies for driving and closing strategic and/or prioritized opportunities. Collaborates with account teams to ensure alignment with the account strategy and plan. Leads deal execution with the deal teams across the organization. Coaches others on the implementation of close plans (e.g., how to map timeline, engage the customer, get customer buy-in and commitment) to de-risk and drive predictable deal closure

Qualifications

12+ years of relevant experience and exposure to technology stack up until the hypervisor layer. Cloud certifications are an added advantage, however, it is a prerequisite for the right candidate.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .