Strategic Account Manager, Financial Services Industry at Microsoft

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

02 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

02 Dec, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Account Management, Customer Engagement, Sales Excellence, Strategic Thinking, Industry Expertise, Relationship Building, Team Leadership, Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Governance Model, Market Analysis, Stakeholder Engagement, Consultative Selling, Problem Solving, Innovation, Ecosystem Development

Industry

Software Development

Description

Account Management Proactively solicits feedback on additional needs, products, and features to develop targeted strategies for customers. Demonstrates a strong understanding of the customer's business model to articulate growth opportunities, leveraging industry expertise to shape ecosystem. Leads and coordinates a diverse and high-performing team and key stakeholders (e.g., industry experts) on plan execution (e.g., prioritization, delegation) and drives accountability to deliver on account plans and grow the account. Anticipates future needs and provides long-term strategic insight to customers as a trusted partner. Leads, challenges, and inspires team to focus on top priorities and challenges to drive business case. Leverages deep industry expertise to anticipate industry direction, ecosystem, and transformation. Proactively expands strategic network of key internal and external partners and decision makers, including vertical industry partners, to ensure execution of core tasks and account transactions and to provide a comprehensive account management experience. Leads regular meetings for strategic accounts with relevant partners. Influences transformation for partners to build innovative solutions. Leads efforts with key internal and external partners including vertical industry partners with business and technical decision makers in developing, sharing, and promoting mutually beneficial, long-term, customizable account plans to grow sales and partner impact, leveraging deep relationships, broad influence, and in-depth industry expertise. Collaborates across organization and partners in discussions to impact the broader ecosystem (e.g., passing legislation). Proactively explores and uncovers technologies and confirms customer interest. Customer Engagement Proactively owns and elevates a transformative customer stakeholder engagement strategy to foster customer trust and brand growth and loyalty. Sets organizational tone for building and maintaining long-term strategic customer relationships and for driving larger impact for the customer. Proactively defines and executes governance model to ensure mapping across seniority levels. Proactively develops a strong, comprehensive understanding of customer's business needs, priorities, and strategies and industry insights, competition, market competitive trends, and the customers' customers. Guides internal colleagues on ways to develop deeper customer knowledge. Anticipates customers' needs to deliver new insights on customers' business strategies. Articulates need to address customer's business needs (both internally and to the customer). Identifies and pursues opportunities to optimize offerings and delivers solutions into overall long-term business strategy. Anticipates new potential market opportunities for the customer, leveraging deep industry expertise. Sales Excellence Translates features into business outcomes that accelerate the customer's digital presence. Earns and maintains status as a thought leader and trusted advisor to the assigned account's C-level business decision makers by bringing innovative ideas, leveraging deep industry expertise, and bringing together the customer's customers. Mobilizes and mentors the account management team and relevant stakeholders with deep industry expertise to expand the partnership with decision makers of the assigned account. Leverages best-in-class sales and communication strategies and tools to anticipate business needs and identify new opportunities. Builds new relationships to create new opportunities and expand relationships within the customer. Anticipates market changes to drive new industry-relevant cloud solutions to customers. Brings greater ecosystem together with the customer to discuss how to enrich customer's value to their customers. Orchestrates the creation of long-term strategies aimed at building a level of loyalty that would be hard for competitors to overcome. Anticipates issues/risks on customer satisfaction, determines the root cause of problems, removes blockers, and establishes recovery action plan to improve customer's overall experience. Builds trust and loyalty with the customer by providing up-to-date insights, challenging the customer when necessary, and introducing innovative ideas relevant to the customer's business strategy. Creates and qualifies new opportunities by identifying highly strategic opportunities (e.g., very large, long-term, high-impact) within accounts and guiding the customer on how to best identify new opportunities, leveraging deep customer and industry relationships and consultative selling skills. Drives new business opportunities across the team by creating a partner ecosystem, and empowers team members to find new opportunities by acting as a role model and by setting a clear vision and energy for the team to drive towards. Strategic Thinking Engages in strategic discussions by discussing ideas to transform customer business models to better serve their own customers, increase profitability and market share, and transform the ecosystem. Leverages relationships in ecosystem to address highly complex political blockers and drive execution for the customer. Leverages unique, strategic industry-focused business insights and opportunities to create long-term, competitive advantage for the customer. Other Embody our culture and values Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience working in an industry (e.g., Financial Services, Technology) OR Master's Degree AND 9+ years experience working in an industry (e.g., Financial Services, Technology) and/or driving digital transformation OR 13+ years experience in working in an industry (e.g., Financial Services, Technology) and/or driving digital transformation OR equivalent experience. 6+ years experience making recommendations to and/or collaborating with mid-to-senior level executives. 8+ years experience closing large, complex agreements/deals. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship. Bachelor's Degree AND 13+ years experience working in an industry (e.g., Financial Services, Technology) and/or driving digital transformation OR Master's Degree AND 11+ years experience working in an industry (e.g., Financial Services, Technology) and/or driving digital transformation OR equivalent experience

Responsibilities

The Strategic Account Manager will proactively solicit feedback to develop targeted strategies for customers and lead a high-performing team to execute account plans. This role involves anticipating customer needs and providing long-term strategic insights while fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders.