Sales Manager

Overview

Why Microsoft The team at Microsoft Asia sees Start-ups and cloud-born organisations as critical to our mission. These companies will help accelerate the priorities of our nations and change our world for the better as they aim to transform business process, finance, climate action, and more changing the way we live and work. Microsoft aspires to empower every cloud-born innovator to scale and grow with Microsoft technology and via Microsoft’s unique channel and customer ecosystem.
This team at Microsoft is at the leading edge of our business and one of the fastest growing and most exciting groups in the Company. We operate like a “start-up” within Microsoft and the team driving this initiative is incredibly entrepreneurial and high-performance. Senior leaders across Microsoft are making an incredible commitment to this initiative and we are rapidly scaling this program, looking for new talent to join our rapidly expanding team.
The purpose of the role Are you a passionate technical sales leader who wants to build and lead a high performance team that helps Startups and Digital Natives grow their businesses? Microsoft is at the forefront of AI innovation; come and help organizations rethink aspects of their business in a way that sets them and their people up for success. As a Digital Native team, we enable customer success by deeply understanding their business, embedding technical sales people alongside our customers to help them build solutions leveraging the Azure, Data & AI Microsoft Clouds.

In this context, we are building out a team across Asia that will: 

Leading and shaping the future of high potential late-stage start-ups and unicorns based on locally set selection criteria Assessing external data identifying those unicorns and late stage, qualifying them based on current status, scores, cost of complexity and acquisition as well as internal Microsoft relationship and relevance (any upcoming ISV that can scale and go big)  Engaging with this segment to prioritize the right motion for a potential unicorn WIN (either through projects on Azure at the start, strategic partnership with commitment, or exclusivity on a specific workload)  Building strategic partnerships at the right time, with those unicorns to accelerate their growth and build new solutions  Onboarding the selected ones onto the Azure platform, designing and helping to migrate and increase consumption while striking the right goals for unicorns  Envisioning new industry scenarios and business models with the unicorns  Driving technical alignment with the v-technical team across organizational segments (Customer Success, Global Black Belts, Engineering, Channel Sales, etc.)  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.

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Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

7+ years of technology-related sales or account management experienceOR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 6+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience. 5+ years of demonstrated experience in leading teams, programs or projects to drive impact and influence sales. 5+ years' experience in any of the following: complex solution selling, consulting services sales, sales management, corporate strategy, or enterprise technology related sales.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

Deep understanding of cloud computing, application hosting, social media and software development (level 200+) preferred. Experience in building long-term commercial agreements that deal with ambiguities and dynamic business changes while minimizing risk. Ability to analyze and model financial data. Ability to creatively move difficult deals forward by restructuring the deal and/or finding ‘win-win’ scenarios and ensuring competitive advantage. Ability to coordinate with external partners and internal teams, both on the business and technical sides to deliver on strategy.  Accuracy in providing senior executives with required information, which ensure project visibility and risk mitigation. People leadership and passion for building a strong culture. Business Development and Sales Leadership. Deep understanding on how to create a new business offering from scratch via different forms of partnerships, and strategic investments while keeping a laser focus on revenue, profitability, and market share growth. Translating strategy into action and a clear passion for closing deals. Ability to ramp up quickly and understand thoroughly the economics, dynamics and intricacy of the cloud business, knowing what levers to pull and when to pull them to influence change, and continually monitoring ongoing trends to anticipate change and proactively lead a timely response. Assessing markets and trends to determine opportunities for Microsoft that provide opportunities for customers/partners to leverage the Microsoft Azure platform. Applying innovative thinking to develop or refine product or services approaches, business models, or marketing strategies to proactively and strategically respond to opportunities. Seeing the big picture, develop models, learn from experience, and see the system impact on the business ecosystem (of actions, decisions). Stay focused on situations, problems, or technology as they relate to the marketplace and customers.  Demonstrating a deep understanding of what is critical to the business in making appropriate decisions that directly affect Microsoft product lines or portfolios, solutions, or services.  Focusing on the essential issues in complex technical and business problems to make appropriate decisions. Understanding the industry, business, and/or technology trends and competitor strategies to make effective decisions and compromises.  Applying breakthrough thinking to shift from a box product to services paradigm.  Ability to quickly ramp up in new technical areas and gain credibility with engineering stakeholders  Ability to influence senior technical and business audiences internally and externally to arrive at deal terms that fully address the objectives of both.  Ability to collaborate across functional teams to drive the right business & technical outcomes.  Domestic and International travel may be required 

Responsibilities

Leadership : The High-Tech Pursuit Manager leads, develops and manages a team of high performing BDM’s to drive solution opportunity revenue and market share by executing to bring late-stage start-ups, unicorns and digital natives to build solutions using Microsoft Azure, and related technologies.  Strategic thinker and market expert:  Accountable for identifying growth opportunities, defining strategies, prioritizing sales plays and developing go-to-market execution plans, to ensure Microsoft realizes its full growth potential within the late-stage startups and unicorns space. This process will integrate and rely on thorough analysis of external and internal data for building a solid portfolio of prospects Growth & Transformation business leader and Customer Advocate:  Engage with the late-stage start-ups and unicorn customers to accelerate revenue growth, drive business outcomes, while helping customers to digitally transform in their industry. Responsible for supplementing global data with local insights to optimize for customer lifetime value through acquisition, retention and growth strategies  Sales Leader:  Ensure each customer has the most valuable relationship with Microsoft and execute MS vision of empowering enterprise customers, driving business growth and transformation through strategic thinking, sales execution and influence  Deal Maker:  Develop and progress the deal shaping and commercial deal construct that is optimal for both the customer and Microsoft 

Core competencies in the role include : sales and pipeline management, people leadership, customer obsession, creative deal making, resilience, goal orientation, embracing internal and external leadership opportunities, strong business networking ability, public speaking, CxO level presentation and partnering skills, structured thinking, and deep project management. Other aspects of the role include: 
 

Lead BDM’s to drive the High-Tech Pursuit Business to overachieve revenue, consumption, and scorecard targets Develops their seller’s Solution Sales and technical skills to sell the business outcomes of the broader Azure platform Drives strong partnership with sales team and other teams engaging in the customer (e.g. partners, services, Customer Success, engineering support, etc.) Maintains the pipeline and the forecast to required operational standards Drives new business opportunities to achieve targets contributing positively to relevant subsidiary scorecard metrics Drives higher levels of operational excellence. Ensures appropriate 4 quarter qualified pipeline in place by workload/solution.

 
People Management:

Develops a high-performing team by hiring diverse talent, prioritizing development, leading by example and by preparing people for more senior positions in other parts of the organization. Coaches Seller’s with a “challenger mentality” by prompting Seller’s to engage early and lead with new insights on how to grow the customers’ business. Successful teams and team members are recognized and rewarded, both within the sales organization and at Corporate levels. Drives cross-team collaboration with Channel Sales Teams, Account Teams, and Specialist Teams 

 
Customer Centricity:

Lead from the front, personally engaging at CxO level to support and coach teams on opportunity discovery and acceleration Lead sellers to drive end-to-end business solutions, increasing customer and partner satisfaction and average deal sizes YoY. Lead cross-team to ensure customer commitment to consume to migrate and expand cloud services.

Partner Engagement:  

Bring together Microsoft solutions with Partner solutions, fully leverage the synergy effect with our partners, and co-sell with them to make deals bigger and faster. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect

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