Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Advisor Japan and Korea at Microsoft

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

26 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

28 Nov, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Digital Transformation, Stakeholder Engagement, Account Planning, Thought Leadership, Industry Trends, Relationship Building, Strategic Change, Solution Selling, Business Development, Market Analysis, Project Management, Consultative Selling, Team Collaboration, Customer Engagement, Industry Expertise, Leadership

Industry

Software Development

Description

Provides guidance from an industry perspective during early stages of opportunity engagements. Initiates conversations with strategic customers to bring innovative ideas that showcase the need for strategic change. Planning and Engagement Serves as the industry subject matter expert in digital transformation account planning. Engages with internal and external stakeholders on account planning and partner business planning (e.g., Key Business Leaders (KBLs), Global Systems Integrator [GSI], Independent Software Vendors [ISV]) and reviews industry plans, lending credibility from an industry perspective. Provides thought leadership via focus on broad global industry trends (e.g., emerging customer needs and competition) to activate and evangelize worldwide industry strategies and/or large ecosystem plays into local market and/or must-win accounts. Drives stakeholder mapping to identify the most influential stakeholders and decision makers in the customer business. Partners locally with ISVs to inform industry knowledge. Participates in small-scale iterative planning rhythms with core account team and other team members to discuss operational elements (e.g., tactics, execution, roles, and orchestration) needed to deliver on the account plan. Ensures alignment with account roadmaps by determining how to drive growth/reduce cost and help direct the account team to what business decision makers (BDMs) pair. Leads multi-horizon planning to outline an approach for industry-oriented solution selling with the customer. Creates segment-focused three-horizon roadmaps for impactful accounts based on business and technology priorities, as well as deep understanding of their industry. Identifies appropriate resources to execute on digital transformation plan to support mid- to long-term customer plans. Drives internal and customer envisioning and articulates business and program changes in the roadmaps around new and groundbreaking capabilities. Proactively continues to build and maintain mutually influential relationships with external senior- and executive-level decision makers and partners, leveraging targeted stakeholders at assigned customer. Builds an understanding of who the most influential decision makers are in potential and existing customer accounts to engage with them and develop a relationship, understand their motivations, and open up new opportunities. Defines an engagement strategy for identifying customer stakeholders (e.g., executives) with the most influence. Ensures effective procurement relationship with stakeholders to understand buying habits of customer. Supports broad and specialist teams in determining who to contact and connect with (e.g., detailing that a logistics challenge in the retail space starts with merchandising). Supports definition of holistic strategy for account and individual stakeholder. Orchestrates V-team in executing plays that support relationship building. Navigates complex corporate and/or political environments specific to the customer's industry to drive business value-case creation. Collaborates with the account team units (ATUs) and internal and external stakeholders/partners to build a pipeline within the industry and territory. Supports the orchestration of appropriate resources to converge, support, and convert industry-specific opportunities into deals. Contributes to market making business partnerships in their industry of expertise with multi-year potential, in collaboration with ATUs. Provides guidance to account teams to help ensure representation of industry to internal senior leadership. Advises account executives and technical leaders of accounts on how to best align sales opportunities to customer business objectives to help customers achieve business results. Provides the industry point of view to support the group assessing account maturation using innovative and creative insight. Provides customer references as industry exemplars in specific, novel customer scenarios. Initiates conversations and networks with customer and internal teams (e.g., industry team, digital technology specialists, sales teams) to determine the right stakeholder mix for transforming the customer's business. Ensures a strong connection into delivery and success, post-sales, to help customers realize desired business value. Collaborates with the account team unit (ATU) and partners to drive GTM strategy and drive together customer opportunities. Collaborates with commercial and legal teams to establish formal partnership. Collaborates with partner teams (e.g., Global Partner Solutions [GPS]) to carry out competitive recruiting of new partners and helps current partners to understand the industry and develop/deliver truth for the solutions within that industry. Completes the required training and seeks additional learning opportunities to obtain relevant industry expertise and certifications pertinent to the role and the industry itself. Proactively builds strong knowledge of the industry, including trends, policy implications (e.g., privacy), and competitors to act as a subject matter expert and inform decisions on pursuit or withdrawal. Leads communication to provide feedback across the ecosystem (i.e., cross-pollinating information across teams/industries) to other teams (e.g., sales, marketing, engineering) on future product trends or sales blockers and to guide industry solutions team members in a wide variety of specialties, leveraging deep industry knowledge to articulate nuances and anticipate gaps. Advises and presents at industry communities. Provides recommendations on accounts and establishes a learning baseline for less experienced colleagues. Proactively seeks out additional training to build on career competencies, including information that adds to the understanding of customers' businesses, and shares it with team members. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Health Sciences, Supply Chain, Education, Business or related field AND 7+ years customer-facing experience in operations, enterprise-level improvement program management, product management, transportation, hospitality, automotive, consumer goods, financial services, retail, management consulting, consultative selling, public sector, technology or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience - OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Health Sciences, Supply Chain, Education, Business or related field AND 5+ years customer-facing experience in operations, enterprise-level improvement program management, product management, transportation, hospitality, automotive, consumer goods, financial services, retail, management consulting, consultative selling, public sector, technology or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Health Sciences, Supply Chain, Education, Business or related field AND 10+ years customer-facing experience in operations, enterprise-level improvement program management, product management, transportation, hospitality, automotive, consumer goods, financial services, retail, management consulting, consultative selling, public sector, technology or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Health Sciences, Supply Chain, Education, Business or related field AND 7+ customer-facing experience in operations, enterprise-level improvement program management, product management, transportation, hospitality, automotive, consumer goods, financial services, retail, management consulting, consultative selling, public sector, technology or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience - OR equivalent experience. - 5+ years proven people management and/or leadership experience.

Responsibilities

The role involves providing industry-specific guidance during early opportunity engagements and initiating conversations with strategic customers to promote innovative ideas. The advisor will also engage with stakeholders on account planning and drive digital transformation strategies tailored to the healthcare and life sciences sectors.