Enterprise Digital Specialist - Security - South African Market

at  Microsoft

As an Enterprise Digital Security Specialist, you’ll play a pivotal role in empowering our customers through the unique value of the Microsoft Cloud. You will drive the day-to-day execution of our strategic business priorities – selling best-in-class cloud services and platforms to our managed customers and building digital transformation momentum for our customers, partners, and Microsoft.
In Digital Sales, we’re on a mission to empower our customers through the unique value of the Microsoft cloud. As part of our globally led, digital-first organization, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving success. Your exceptional sales skills, deep understanding of enterprise needs, and ability to build strong customer relationships will be instrumental in achieving sales targets. You will also have an opportunity to work collaboratively across teams while living our shared SMC and Digital Sales Culture priorities: Diversity and Inclusivity, Wellbeing, Sustainability, and Customer Obsession.

• Sales Execution: You will collaborate with virtual team members to identify customer business needs and contribute to the development of solutions. Proactively build an external stakeholder network to and implement strategies to accelerate and close Security opportunities.
• Business Value Selling: Hunt new Security opportunities by identifying and engaging with key business contacts, understanding customers’ business and technology priorities, governance, decision and budget processes, and landing the value proposition.
• Technical Expertise: You will initiate Security discussions with business decision makers conversations, share best practices and key competitor knowledge across solution areas acting as a subject matter expert to make recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal.
• Sales Excellence: You will collaborate with partners and resources to plan for accounts, do compete plans, forecasting, and business analysis to pursue high-potential customers
• Help grow Microsoft’s culture priorities: work with peers and the organization to deliver excellence in culture. Our priorities are Diverse and Inclusive, Wellbeing, Sustainability, Giving and Learning.
• Showcase a learning mentality: Demonstrate a willingness to invest in your personal learning in the Cybersecurity arena.