Solution Area Specialist (Unified) at Microsoft

, , Netherlands -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

23 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

25 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Sales Orchestration, Stakeholder Management, Customer Engagement, Solution Selling, Account Planning, Risk Planning, Business Value Selling, Forecasting, Pipeline Management, Industry Knowledge, Technical Expertise, Best Practices, Competitor Knowledge, Prospecting, Qualifying, Closing Business

Industry

Software Development

Description

You will orchestrate a virtual team and assess customer needs to develop strategies that proactively build a stakeholder network to accelerate and close opportunities, drive a robust deployment, and remove blockers to consumption. You will propose the proper solution tailored to the customer's specific needs through an understanding of your customers' business and technology priorities, governance, decision making and budgetary processes as they apply to each relevant customer's business decision makers. You will lead sales orchestration to proactively drive deal closure by identifying and aligning internal stakeholders as well as leveraging and expanding relationships with partners. Technical Expertise: You will lead BDM and ITDM conversations, share best practices and key competitor knowledge across solution areas acting as a subject matter expert to inform decisions on pursuit or withdrawal. You will be responsible for prospecting, qualifying, solutioning and closing business in your assigned territory. You will manage the end-to-end sales including ensuring continuous engagements to ensure customer satisfaction and business value around delivery success of your assigned territory through intentional selling driven by customer research; account planning; compete planning; risk planning; outcome-based & business value selling; and forecasting and pipeline management to pursue high-potential customers and manage Unified solutions across the organization. You will apply and encourage an innovative point of view during client interactions to identify new opportunities, grow client capabilities, and guide sellers and customers through a specific focus on knowledge of a specific industry or industries (e.g., healthcare, education, technology, finance) including trends, competition, etc. to establish point of view. Additionally, you will inform the Go To Market (GTM) strategy for solution sales motions and champion customer asks, blockers and escalations to progress deals faster into closure. Experience in technology-related sales or account management experience - OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND extensive experience in technology-related sales or account management experience - OR Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND experience in technology-related sales or account management experience - Solution sales or consulting services sales experience

Responsibilities

You will orchestrate a virtual team to assess customer needs and develop strategies to close opportunities. You will manage end-to-end sales and ensure customer satisfaction through continuous engagement.