Account Technology at Microsoft
Gurugram, haryana, India -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

02 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

02 Dec, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Digital Transformation, Technology Strategy, Account Planning, Demand Generation, Technical Consulting, Business Insights, Stakeholder Management, Collaboration, Forecasting, Risk Management, Customer Engagement, Technical Sales, Industry Trends, Solution Development, Technical Guidance, Business Outcomes

Industry

Software Development

Description
Customer and Industry Insights Applies expertise (deep expertise across few accounts or broad expertise across many accounts) in customer businesses. technology platforms, and maturity to build digital technology strategy with the customer that is aligned to business outcomes. Challenges customers' assumptions with constructive dialogue about their business and technology. Leverages industry trends to gather insights and develop an informed perspective on similar issues that may occur within their industry/industries. Generates business insights based on knowledge of the customer's technology landscape, engagement experience, and proactive collaboration with the customer, internal teams, and industry, to conduct forecasting and develop recommendations for managing accounts. Challenges customers to consider alternative business models to meet business and market needs, and adapts plans to insights. Orchestrates teams to gather information, collaborate on performance markers, and identify potential risks in customer accounts. Leads technical teams for driving opportunities with other teams, as necessary. Brings in business and industry insights to address the broader business challenges for the customer and deliver solutions. Differentiated Value Proposition Leads new opportunities and orchestrates internal teams to accelerate the customer business transformations through digital technologies by understanding the customer industry and position, engaging with customers to lead strategic technology direction/transformation within assigned accounts, and ensuring line-of-business wins are captured (e.g., testimonials) for referencing. Provides an outside-in perspective around compete or other solutions that are also a requirement for the customer. Uses existing and new readiness resources to support enablement plans for customer technology adoption at the national and regional level. Contributes to the delivery of regular (e.g., quarterly, monthly) industry/technology briefings to customer technology decision-makers and technical teams. Mapping and Account Planning Orchestrates internal teams and local partners (inclusive of global systems integrators and consultancy partners) to ensure sufficient technical resources for demand generation, when appropriate. Creates stakeholder maps for accounts, and determines, and orchestrates a coverage plan. Drives account planning for budgeting, quota attainment, consumption goals, and customer consumption gaps to inform quarterly and fiscal objectives. Coordinates extended account teams and drives forecasting and tracking of the business. Owns the technical portion of the account plan and leads the customer plan delivery. Captures all Account Planning input in MSX D365 Account Plan. Technology Sales: Demand Generation and Orchestration Leads Account Strategy Envisioning (ASE, formerly IDTA) with the extended account team, customer, and partner to deliver the outcomes for the customer through joint envisioning, as a vehicle for Industry Sales Kits and Solution Plays. Creates new Stage 1 opportunities, both billed and consumed, with technical decision maker (TDM) customer stakeholders, managing consumption pipeline with extended team to maintain velocity, and unblocking issues. Identifies customer issues, creates demand, and creates opportunities to uncover new solutions. Creates and qualifies a set number of opportunities for product sales, solution sales, or consumption. Leverages partners to drive demand generation and capitalize on opportunities. Orchestrates efforts to drive MCEM lifecycle and stage progression. Works within a broader strategy to lead efforts with technical teams for driving opportunities including Specialist Team Unit (STU), Customer Success Unit (CSU), and others, as necessary. Contributes to efforts to reach out to key stakeholders to give customer-driven pitches and drives the appropriate customer reach together with the account executive to generate new demand. Uses technical knowledge of products to determine feasibility of technical customer requirements requests and works with core engineering teams to prepare solutions. Creates follow-up opportunities and orchestrates appropriate technical teams from the Specialist Team Unit (STU) to pursue and close. Technology Strategy Formulation Creates mid- to long-term (e.g., 12 or more months) technology and business roadmaps for one or more accounts, to outline the digital transformation journey and core wins. Updates and articulates business changes in the roadmaps around foundational, traditional capabilities. Builds technical engagement or enablement plan, captures baseline, and drives envisioning to support mid- to long-term business plans. Discusses the strategy and plan with customer stakeholders. Translates an understanding of the customer's business objectives and scenarios in conjunction with Industry Sales Kits and Solution Plays to develop technology architecture. Ensures execution of technology strategy and/or digital transformation by identifying and resolving technical blockers that arise during strategy planning and implementation and driving technology adoption. Provides analysis of overall customer needs, outcomes, and potential blockers. Trusted Advisor Leverages leaders from the partner ecosystem to bridge process gaps. Coordinates with internal industry experts (e.g., Regional Experts) to gather industry data of assigned accounts and leverages knowledge of competitors to improve planning. Demonstrates a strong understanding of the customer's business strategy and the direction of the industry. Provides technical guidance to internal teams to position technology while using customer landscape knowledge. Creates follow-up opportunities and orchestrates appropriate technical teams from the Specialist Team Unit (STU) to pursue and close. Acts as the voice of the customer, industry, and internal advocate by providing insights, feedback, and challenges from the customer to internal teams (e.g., product groups, engineers). Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 8+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, business consulting, practice building, or related technical/sales experience OR equivalent experience. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 8+ years technical consulting, technical consultative selling, business consulting, practice building, or related technical/sales experience OR equivalent experience. 6+ years experience in digital transformation, or using technology to drive customer business outcomes. This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. *
Responsibilities
The role involves applying expertise in customer businesses and technology platforms to build digital technology strategies aligned with business outcomes. It includes orchestrating teams to gather insights, drive opportunities, and deliver solutions that address broader business challenges for customers.
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