Americas Commercial Executive - Sales Lead jobs at Microsoft in Taiwan, Taoyuan City

This role requires an experienced professional who thrives in complex environments, canneeds, and consistently delivers with discretion, judgment, and professionalism.

This is more than an administrative role

• 5+ years Administrative, Business Support, or customer service experience in an environment with an emphasis on scheduling meetings/events, travel management, and administration work for executive/upper-level management
  • OR equivalent experience
• 5+ years experience supporting Director, CVP, and Executive-level leaders within a globally distributed team.
• 3+ years experience reviewing and managing administrative budgets (e.g., for events, morale, travel, training)
• Experience collaborating with a highly geo-diverse team across multiple time zones.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• 10+ years Administrative, Business Support, or customer service experience in an environment with an emphasis on scheduling meetings/events, travel management, and administration work for executive/upper-level management
  • OR equivalent experience
• 10+ years experience supporting Director, CVP, and Executive-level leaders within a globally distributed team.
• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Business Administration, Human Resources [HR], Marketing, Communications, Psychology, Sociology)
  • OR equivalent experience
• 5+ years experience reviewing and managing administrative budgets (e.g., for events, morale, travel, training)
• 2+ years experience serving as mentor to others

Executive Business Administrator ATR-D - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $30.29 - $50.53 per hour. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $41.83 - $57.88 per hour.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until

• Provide high-level administrative support to the CVP, including proactive calendar and schedule management, travel coordination, and executive communications.

• effectivenessacross time zones, ensuring alignment on critical business priorities and seamless execution of the rhythm of business (ROB).

• Manage complex headcount, budget, and space planning processes in partnership with finance and business operations teams.

• Serve as a trusted connector across the organization, reinforcing Microsoft’s culture and values.

• challenges, remove barriers, and enable the CVP and leadership team to focus on high-impact decisions.

• Partners with Global Talent Acquisition and hiring managers on recruitment and onboarding. Ensures smooth processes for new hires, interns, and executive onboarding.

• logistics, and outcomes. Leverages resources to deliver efficient, high-quality experiences.

• Oversees purchase orders, expenses, and compliance with Microsoft policies. Acts as interim approver when needed.

• Leads office space management and planning, from desk assignments to large-scale restacks and buildouts, ensuring alignment with organizational needs.

• Actively contributes to the Business Support community by mentoring peers and sharing best practices.

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As an SAP Solution Engineer, you will work closely with a dedicated salesperson from the Strategic Partnership team to sell SAP Azure in western Europe. This is a technical pre-sales role, responsible for all technical pre-sales activities, including running workshops, leading technology presentations as well as assisting our customers in becoming frontier, taking advantage of the possibilities of CoPilot and Agentic AI with SAP on Azure. This opportunity will allow you to interact with senior stakeholders, decision makers and the technical staff of our customers. You will have opportunities to accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, hone your selling skills, and become adept at evangelizing why Microsoft Cloud, its cloud services and capabilities are ideal for innovation.

This is a flexible working opportunity and working from home is possible when not visiting customers. International travel maybe be required.

Required Qualifications

• Several years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience.
• Several years of extensive experience with SAP infrastructure-related technologies, paired with asolid understanding of the SAP ecosystem and how to bring them to life with Azure or competing clouds.
• Comprehensive understanding of cloud platform technologies, especially AI, Agentic and CoPilot technologies.
• Multi-lingual speaking skills, especially French (B2+) and English (C1+).

Additional Qualifications

• Computer Science, Information Technology or related 4 year degree
• Proficiency in understanding the core business processes associated with companies running SAP, especially those in the manufacturing, pharma, energy and retail/consumer products industries
• Proven experience engaging with senior level executives.
• Superior communication and presentation skills and the ability to influence for impact and stakeholder collaboration.
  

• Proactively identify and engage with key customer decision makers and influencers, while leading the technical sales strategy, including positioning the advantages of the Microsoft platform, from security to AI for SAP RISE and SAP in Azure customers.
• Use your broad, in-depth knowledge and leadership skills to build credibility and trust with our customers
• Leverage your skills and experiences to take ownership of resolving all technology aspects of a complex customer engagement
• Foster a deep relationship with SAP and the SAP Community, to keep aligned with SAP strategies and SAP customer trends
• Engage the Microsoft global system integration partner ecosystem in a sell-with motion
• Generate new go-to-market strategies and patterns and share them with the global and area community.

• 10+ years of experience in Sales, Partner/Channel development, business development, alliance management in the technology industry
  • Experience articulating technology platform strategy and solutions with a great proficiency
  • Good candidate will be inclusive and collaborative, drive teamwork and cross-team alignment and will have strong relationship management and solution development skills
  • Strong executive presence including communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort to large and small audiences.
  • Strategic thinker who drives for impact. Strong candidates with problem solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, conflict resolution, and follow through with partners.
  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA desired.

• Sales Leadership

• Partner Success

• : Create strategic business objectives and partnership plans, coordinate partner prioritization and growth, ability to set clear goals/timelines for the business to achieve or exceed on revenue/metric targets and drive execution against agreed plans. Demonstrate the ability to make decisions in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.

• Focus on Performance Management with partners

Required/minimum qualifications

The qualified candidate is a qualified negotiator with proficient strategic thinking, and the ability to simplify complex legal and commercial constructs. Collaboration, adaptability, and a deep understanding of Microsoft Services and licensing programs are key to thriving in this role.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Law, Marketing, Finance, Communication, Education (or equivalent) or related field AND 3+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience
  • OR 5+ years sales and negotiation experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

• 3+ years of experience with deal strategy, deal execution and contractual negotiations.
• 3+ years of experience in Customer Facing Commercials and Presenting to C-Level Executives.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Master's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Law, Marketing (or equivalent) AND 4+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Law, Marketing, Finance, Communication, Education (or equivalent) or related field AND 5+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience
  • OR 7+ years sales and negotiation experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience with deal strategy, deal execution and contractual negotiations.
• 5+ years of experience in Customer Facing Commercials and Presenting to C-Level Executives.
• Proven track record of proficiency in Business to Business (B2B) Commercial sales.
• Able to make suitable choices for the customer based on their commercial strategic needs.
• Strategic, long-term thinkers able to analyze data to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Commercial Agreement, Licensing, and Operational Experience.

- The typical base pay range for this role across the
USD $113,400 - $164,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until

are responsible for the following:

Deal Making:

• Lead internal and external sales and management teams through commercial construct optimizing for the right level of investment and customization. Optimize deal customization leveraging price and non-price concessions.

• Identify business opportunities which vary based on deal lifecycle and artificial intelligence (AI). Take relevant steps to make sure deal execution is proficient.

• Creates and manages commercial plan/contributes to account plan for strategic accounts by mapping out how to maximize qualified medium in size/scope or complex commercial opportunity for the account.

• Analyzes customer commercial opportunity history, inclusive of discounts, concessions, and consumptions for territory. Anticipates and verifies upcoming renewals as appropriate.

Compliance:

• Drives adherence to commercial solutions policy for commercial deal execution, and coaches sales team to ensure compliance.

• Actively and promptly raises compliance issues; drives a culture of compliance through deal execution and related parts of Microsoft policies.
• Assesses and analyzes deals for risks related to profitability, legal issues, and contracting. Coaches’ others on assessment and escalation of risk.

Negotiation:

• Define, negotiate complex commercial terms and lead the strategy for the negotiation approach by engaging with stakeholders.

• Partners with leaders when negotiating complex commercial terms in collaboration with the account team and deal manager. Understands stakeholders (priority). Leverages formal negotiation strategies and identifies important factors for successfully negotiating (e.g., anticipates potential vulnerabilities, understands customer measurement of value in order to craft solutions to meet those needs and defines fallback positions).

• Consults with leaders on rhythm of negotiation team planning and reporting to stakeholders. Utilizes the strategy for the negotiation approach by engaging with experienced stakeholders internally and externally. Drives accountability for negotiation outcome(s).

Collaboration

• Develop trusted relationships with key customer stakeholders, partners, Account Team in order to help our customers deliver their business goals and achieve Microsoft revenue targets.

• Leads collaboration with sellers and stakeholders to achieve revenue targets. Leverages critical resources (e.g., deal desk, sales support, operations, partners, finance) to drive business outcomes.

• In-depth and strategic understanding of Microsoft licensing programs and contracting.

Proactive Engagement:

• Proactively engages with others to align commercial strategy to customer needs. Applies knowledge of expected outcomes to determine how commercial licensing/contracting should be changed to meet customer needs.

• Drives accountability in resolving cross-functional issues to successful conclusion. Fosters overall proficiency by driving proficient team collaboration.

Other

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Required

• Working knowledge of Microsoft’s cloud offerings or Competitors’ related ecosystem
• Demonstrable experience selling complex cloud based solutions with particular focus on Data and AI services
• Possess both business acumen expertise and technology knowledge to connect how cloud computing can help an organisation achieve its business objectives

Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

• Sales Account Planning and Management: Understanding of opportunity pipeline management. Orchestrate and influence virtual sales/technical/support/partner teams to pursue sales opportunities
• Understanding of key infra-to-the-cloud workloads such as; Windows Server, SQL, SAP, HPC, Business Continuity Disaster Recovery (BCDR) data, App Modernisation, Security & hybrid cloud.
• Consumption Business Strategy / Project Management. Experience leveraging cloud adoption methodologies and frameworks to structure Datacentre and application migration projects.
• Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs.
• Demonstrated passion and commitment for customer success
• Experience in Financial Services Industry

• Lead Strategic Customer Conversations: Engage executives, business leaders, and technical teams to understand their priorities and challenges, mapping them to Microsoft’s Cloud & AI solutions to deliver differentiated value
• Own and Convert Pipeline: Manage forecast and pipeline from early-stage to close. Use tools like Industry Account Plans (IAP), Landing Experience Plans (LXP), and checklists to execute territory planning and strategies and drive revenue.
• Orchestrate Across Teams: Partner with Account Executives, Solution Engineers, Cloud Solution Architects, and partners to co-sell, validate solutions, and ensure successful deployment through the Cloud & AI Marketplace.
• Accelerate Decisions: Engage decision-makers with clear business cases using Cloud & AI Pricing Calculator, ROI, and TCO tools. Scope proofs of concept and lead customers from commitment to consumption.
• Inspire and Influence: Bring technical fluency and inclusive leadership to virtual teams. Solve challenges with expertise in virtualization, cloud-native tech, data modernization, and AI
• Scaling and Collaboration:Collaborates with our Partner Solutions teams,identifies

• Proven experience in technology-related sales, business development, or account management experience OR
  A Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or related field combined with proven experience of technology-related sales or account management experience OR
  A Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA), Information Technology, or related field combined with proven experince of technology-related sales or account management experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience bridging technical depth with customer engagement, ideally having worked in both technical (solution engineering, architecting, development) and sales/business roles within Financial Services.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure preferred, AWS or Google Cloud a plus) and cross-solution integration across AI, Data, and Application Innovation.
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale AI solutions, data platforms, application modernization strategies, and security best practices.
• Track record of driving adoption and consumption of technology solutions in enterprise accounts.
  

• Lead Strategic Customer Conversations: Engage executives, business leaders, and technical teams to understand their priorities and challenges, mapping them to Microsoft’s Cloud & AI solutions to deliver differentiated value.
• Accelerate AI and Cloud Adoption: Drive adoption of Azure services across AI, Data, and Application Innovation, activating solution plays such as“Modernize Applications,” “Empower AI Transformation,”and“Unlock Data Value at Scale.”
• Orchestrate Solution Delivery: Partner with Cloud Solution Architects, Specialists, and Partners to deliver demos, design sessions, and proof-of-value engagements that showcase Azure’s impact.
• Champion Secure and Responsible AI: Guide customers in implementing secure, compliant, and responsible AI practices, leveraging Microsoft tools like Azure AI, Azure Machine Learning, and Microsoft Responsible AI guidelines.
• Enable Data-Driven Decision Making: Help customers modernize their data estates, integrate advanced analytics, and deploy AI models to optimize decision-making and operational efficiency.
• Drive Business Outcomes with Application Innovation: Support customers in building and modernizing applications using Azure Kubernetes Service, serverless computing, and low-code/no-code capabilities.
• Pipeline & Opportunity Management: Identify and qualify opportunities, progressing them through the sales cycle by leveraging AI-driven insights and collaborating with partners for co-selling motions.
• Ensure Ongoing Customer Success: Monitor and guide adoption post-deployment, ensuring customers realize the full value of their Azure investments while driving renewals and expansion.
• Continuous Learning & Thought Leadership: Stay ahead of industry trends, competitive insights, and Microsoft innovations. Share best practices and mentor peers to raise overall team capability.