Digital Solution Area Specialist at Microsoft

Kavala, Macedonia and Thrace, Greece -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

06 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

06 Dec, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Sales Excellence, Technical Expertise, Collaboration, Cloud Technologies, AI Solutions, Customer Engagement, Business Analysis, Solution Design, Market Trends, Strategic Planning, Account Management, Consultative Selling, Leadership, Networking, Innovation, Problem Solving

Industry

Software Development

Description

Overview Are you passionate about AI and eager to transform the IT landscape? Join our dynamic Cloud & AI team as we lead the charge in AI transformation! As trusted advisors, we help customers modernize their infrastructure, optimize operations, and drive innovation with Cloud & AI's cutting-edge AI capabilities. Whether it's migrating and modernizing estates to be AI-ready, accelerating innovation with AI agents and platforms, empowering development teams with AI, or unifying and modernizing data estates, we help customers build technology solutions to achieve their business needs. In this role, you'll be at the forefront of AI growth and disruption, guiding customers through their AI journey and helping them achieve their strategic goals. You'll ensure customers can fully harness the transformative potential of AI to stay ahead of the competition. If you're ready to make a significant impact and drive AI transformation, we invite you to join us and be part of this exciting journey! At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team—one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation. SME&C is more than a sales organization—it’s a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do. If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how SME&C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business. As a Cloud & AI Digital Solution Area Specialist you will be a solution sales leader within our mid-market sales organization working with our most important customers. You will collaborate with a team of technical, partner, and consulting resources to advance the sales process and exceed quarterly Cloud & AI revenue targets in your assigned accounts. This opportunity will allow you to: Accelerate your career growth by leading high-impact Cloud and AI Solution Plays across diverse industries and engaging in strategic customer conversations. Hone your technical and consultative selling skills through deep engagements with customers and partners, while building confidence in solution design and execution. Develop deep business acumen by aligning cloud strategies with customer transformation goals and success metrics, and by participating in immersive learning experiences. Strengthen your leadership and influence by collaborating across teams, contributing to a culture of innovation, and sharing best practices. Build future-ready capabilities through certifications, hands-on workshops, and continuous learning in cloud and AI technologies. 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 Sales Excellence Reviews feedback report and sets long-term strategies aimed at maintaining levels of client satisfaction; 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. Engages with internal and external stakeholders on business planning, rhythm-of-business (ROB) meetings to review and plan for strategic accounts across territories. Builds and transforms new markets by leveraging technical and industry expertise, partners, and resources; leads a team to explore business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and facilitate customer innovation. Collaborates with extended sales team, partners, and marketing to lead business analysis (e.g., whitespace analysis, identify industry trends) to pursue high-potential customers and develop a target list of potential business; acts as a thought leader and validates opinions and perspectives from business analysis. Manages the end-to-end business for strategic accounts across the organization; leads forecasting for accounts and develops a portfolio and territory plan to drive intentional selling with on-strategy engagements in high propensity accounts; mentors less experienced team members. Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry; proactively seeks training, including information that adds to the understanding of customers' business, and shares it with team members. Sales Execution 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. 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. Orchestrates with team members on conducting personal campaigns to discover new opportunities and generate new leads; leads 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 (ATU) 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 [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. Proactively builds 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. 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 with a challenger mindset that accounts for customers' business needs and priorities; leads virtual transformational shifts to drive deployment and create business value for customers; may lead partner integration into account/territory planning and customer engagements. Scaling and Collaboration Leads the sales orchestration to proactively drive deal closure by identifying and aligning internal stakeholders as well as leveraging and expanding relationships with partners; applies a holistic approach to build network across territories; positions opportunities to promote collaboration and participation. Leads the planning and execution on opportunities with resources and partners to cross-sell, up-sell, and co-sell; identifies, leverages, coordinates partners and resources across solution areas, and supports on-boarding new partners; validates partner solution relevance for customers; provides input and feedback to One Commercial Partner (OCP) on developing partner strategies and consumption plans, and connects the partner ecosystems to scale business results. Technical Expertise Leverages and shares competitor knowledge across solution areas as a subject matter expert to inform decisions on pursuit or withdrawal; collaborates with the "compete" global black belts (GBBs) to proactively provide analysis of the competitive landscape in supported solution area; leads the communication to provide feedback to other teams (e.g., sales, marketing, engineering) on future product trends or sales blocker. Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 7+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 9+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience. Advanced English level. Additional or preferred qualifications Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 10+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 11+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience. 6+ years of solution or services sales experience 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 role involves leading solution sales within the mid-market sales organization, collaborating with technical and consulting resources to exceed revenue targets. Responsibilities include engaging with customers, developing strategies for opportunities, and driving business growth through innovative solutions.