Digital Enterprise Sales Specialist - Cloud& AI - Dutch/ Flemish Speaking at Microsoft

Santanyí, Balearic Islands, Spain -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

16 May, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

15 Feb, 26

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Azure, Cloud, Digital Transformation, Sales Excellence, Sales Execution, Forecasting, Partner Collaboration, Customer Insights, Solution Articulation, Deal Closure, Consultative Selling, Oral Communication, Technical Communication, Written Communication, Creativity

Industry

Software Development

Description

Overview In this Azure SSP role you will be working as an Azure Specialist and part of our Belgium sub. A requirment of the role is that you will fluent spoken language of Dutch (or Flemish) as per customer requirements. Previous cloud/ Azure expereince a major adnvantage but you would also need a fundamental understanding of our customers' business to initiate conversations on digital transformation in a single solution area, in collaboration with partners and services. You would daily work by identitfying, developing, proposing, and articulating Azure solutions that align with customer needs. You would manages and/or orchestrate sales and delivery success through the account team and pursuit team. Participates in rhythm-of-business (ROB) meetings to review and plan for accounts in the assigned territory. Collaborates with extended sales team, partners, and marketing to conduct business analysis to pursue high-potential customers and develop a target list of potential business. Manages the end-to-end business of the assigned territory. Responsibilities Sales Excellence Manages the end-to-end business of the assigned territory; conducts forecasting for accounts and develops a portfolio and territory plan to drive intentional selling aligned with strategic priorities. Collaborates with partners and resources and leverages customer insights or industry knowledge; contributes to exploring business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and support customer innovation. Participates in rhythm-of-business (ROB) meetings to review and plan for accounts in the assigned territory. Reviews feedback report and coaches others on ensuring customer/partner satisfaction and decreasing dissatisfaction by establishing recovery action plans to improve clients' overall experience; manages and/or orchestrates sales and delivery success through the account team and pursuit team. Sales Execution Identifies customer business needs and technical readiness; collaborates with internal teams, partners, and services to propose prioritized solutions that align with customers' needs; leverages the value propositions to communicate business impact of proposed solutions. Implements strategies to help accelerate the closing of deals in collaboration with other team members; implements 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. Engages in conversations with customers to introduce how other workloads could enable digital transformation areas that is aligned with the customer's industry; has a fundamental understanding of customers' business to initiate conversations with customers on digital transformation in a single solution area, in collaboration with partners and services; shares learning on digital transformation through seminars, workshops, Webinars, and direct engagement. Develops an understanding of external stakeholders' mapping, including who the decision makers and influencers are; participates with account teams (e.g., Account Executives) in communication with business or subject matter decision makers at the customer's/partner's business. Identifies opportunities to drive consumption and grow business with existing customers by initiating conversations, providing demos or quotes, and collaborating with partners or internal teams (e.g., Technical Sales Professionals, global black belts [GBBs]); for licensing transactions and project engagements, ensures rapid and robust deployment plan at point of sale that is validated by services and partners; identifies, articulates, and facilitates the removal of blockers to consumption by partnering with internal and external stakeholders. Collaborates with team members to discover new opportunities; drives incremental revenue growth through personal campaigns (e.g., portfolio analysis) or internal sources (e.g., marketing, account teams); collaborates with account teams, partners, or services to track, qualify, and expand new opportunities; collaborates with other teams (e.g., account teams) and services to build pipeline; interfaces with customers and builds relationships via social selling; applies Microsoft's sales process (MSP) to determine the quality of the opportunity and whether to proceed. Scaling and Collaboration Applies the orchestration model to support deal closure by identifying and aligning internal stakeholders and leveraging relationships with partners. Collaborates with One Commercial Partner (OCP) and with a network of partners to cross-sell, up-sell, and co-sell products, solutions and services; identifies new partners by researching and discussing with partners on customer scenarios; develops joint proposals and consumption plans with partners; implements partner strategies to scale the business. Technical Expertise Researches competitor products, solutions, and/or services and collaborates with the "compete" global black belts (GBBs) to implement strategies to position Microsoft against competitors in customer communication. Qualifications Dutch/ Flemish as requirement for this role. Previous Cloud and in particular Azure specialist experience a major advantage. Oral Communication: The ability to make a verbal message understood and to receive/understand messages during in-person or remote (e.g., telephone) interactions. Technical Communication: The ability to adapt communications around different technologies, products, and services to the audience's level of understanding. Written Communication: The ability to prepare clear, accurate, and understandable written text, and follow the basic rules of spelling, grammar, and punctuation. This may include memos, emails, proposals, reports, and professional or general correspondence. Consultative Selling: The ability to understand customer needs through dialogue before recommending products/services. Creativity: The ability to apply ingenuity, inventiveness, and imagination to the inclusive design and construction of a product, service, program, or initiative. This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Responsibilities

The specialist will be responsible for managing the end-to-end business of an assigned territory, including forecasting and developing territory plans to drive intentional selling aligned with strategic priorities. Daily activities involve identifying, developing, proposing, and articulating Azure solutions that meet customer needs while orchestrating sales and delivery success through account and pursuit teams.