Sales Specialists Leader -- Auto Industry jobs at Microsoft in Taiwan, Taoyuan City

As a Channel Disti Leader, you are at the leading front of partner performance in your area! You will bring your tenacious work ethic, your enthusiasm, optimism, and your passion to foster profound growth and change within our channel partner ecosystem. You will leverage your challenger mindset, deep technology industry knowledge, market insights, expert understanding of the competitive landscape, executive presence and best in class interpersonal abilities to grow our robust ecosystem of world class channel partners.

You will deliver the Disti Partner sales strategy and will sponsor executive connections, drive business performance, and maximize partner investments in your area. You will institute a predictable rhythm with partners and key stakeholders to drive sales execution. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth as you work deeply with highly complex partner organizations building strong relationships in the C-Suite.

• Demonstrated experience in Disti management, sales, business development, or partner channel development in the technology industry or related experience
• Experience supporting the overall strategy and execution of partner performance and sales results for the sales unit, with accountability for FRA, forecast integrity, and translating quantitative and qualitative insights into strategic priorities and plans.
• Leverage market insights and intelligence to continuously assess customer TAM opportunity, competitive dynamics, and risks, and to design targeted proposals to address emerging opportunities and challenges.
• Demonstrate strength engaging senior leaders in the partners’ organization to influence business outcomes, drive alignment on strategy, joint commitments, and priorities as captured in the partner business plan, ensuring mutual accountability for Metrics that Matter, KPIs, and growth execution.
• Proven capability supporting high performing sales teams, implementing a collaborative operating model with Regional OU leaders and their teams, fostering transparent, high-bandwidth engagement to maximize opportunities and insights and role modeling One Microsoft behaviors across the region.

• Accountable for the overall strategy and execution of the Disti performance and sales results for operating unit.
• Deliver sales unit FRA including forecast integrity throughout the FY; evaluate quantitative and qualitative metrics and translate those metrics/results into strategic priorities and plans.
• Continuously assess customer TAM opportunity, competitive dynamics, market insights and intelligence in the design of proposals to address opportunities, challenges and risks.
• Engage CxO leaders as well as partner country managers across the partner ecosystem to drive alignment on strategy, joint commitments and priorities (as documented in the Partner Business Plan) and overall rhythm of the business to ensure mutual commitment and delivery on the Metrics that Matter, KPIs and execution of priorities that deliver growth.
• Execute the Disti plan in the operating unit with consistency; align to overall Top CSP strategy and guidance. Execute the Top SSP plan for the globally and locally managed partners in the operating unit.
• Build a consistent strategy, execution and co-sell plan for all local partners, leveraging the Metrics that Matter, sharing best practices with peers in other sales units. Build a predictable engagement model with in-region partners based on alignment on the PBP, KPIs and strategic priorities, and shared business outcomes.
• Implement a collaborative operating model with the Regional OU leaders and their teams as well as shared services (Tech Team, Partner Marketing Manager, Partner Solution Sales). Create a transparent engagement model between the organizations to ensure the business is maximizing opportunity and insights across the region to deliver optimal results and role model One Microsoft behavior.

, you will take the lead in harnessing the power of AI to achieve customer leadership. Your efforts will be instrumental in executing solution sales strategies by leveraging various programs and offers. Additionally, you will be responsible for selling cloud services and platforms tailored for our managed customers. Furthermore, you will play a significant role in enabling AI and Digital transformation momentum for our customers, partners, and Microsoft.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
• Cybersecurity industry experience. Microsoft security portfolio knowledge preferred
• Demonstrated experience selling complex, cloud-based solutions to Enterprise customers.
• Proven sales and negotiation experience.
• Demonstrated experience selling complex, cloud-based solutions to small and medium enterprise customers.
• Proven self-starter able to work towards delivery of goals as best practices are being developed
• Able to drive technical security conversations and conduct product/solution demonstrations.
• Solid understanding of security market and complete solutions
• Experience in managing channel sales

• Sales Execution- Engages in conversation with customers aligned to their industry and collaborates with account and partner team to drive and qualify new opportunities and build pipeline.
  • Identifies customer business and technology readiness, proactively builds external stakeholders' mapping, implements strategies to accelerate the closing of deals, contributes input on strategies to drive and close prioritized opportunities, coaches junior team members in deal plan execution, and implements close plans.
• Business Value Selling : Hunt new Security opportunities by identifying and engaging with key business contacts, partners, understanding customers’ business and technology priorities, governance, decision and budget processes, and landing the value proposition.
• Scaling and Collaboration- Applies role orchestration model and navigates the Microsoft organization to bring the best impact to the customer.
  • Collaborates with Global Partner Solutions (GPS), identifies new partners, develops joint proposals with partners, and contributes to developing partner strategies.
• Technical Expertise- You will initiate Security discussions with business decision makers conversations, share best practices and key competitor knowledge across solution areas acting as a subject matter expert to make recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal. Leverages and shares competitor knowledge across solution areas as a subject matter expert to inform decisions on pursuit or withdrawal.
  • Leads conversations and sets up events within Microsoft, mentors others and develops strategies for best practice sharing, initiates conversations with prospective customers/partners at events, acts as a subject matter expert in one or more solution area(s).
  • Collaborates with the 'compete' SMEs internally to analyze competitor products, solutions, and/or services and implement strategies.
• Sales Excellence : You will collaborate with partners and resources to plan for accounts, do compete plans, forecasting, and business analysis to pursue high-potential customers
• Showcase a learning mentality : Demonstrate a willingness to invest in your personal learning in the Cybersecurity arena.
• Delivers Results Through Teamwork
  • Drives the execution of projects, partners and collaborates with other teams on related deliverables, and leverages others in relevant work streams.

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

• 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.

As an
Industry Advisor for Defence and Intelligence, you will play a pivotal role in driving digital transformation and innovation across the Defense and Intelligence industry. Your mission is to engage with executive-level stakeholders to co-create strategies that unlock new revenue streams, optimise operations, and deliver hyper-personalised experiences through cutting-edge technologies.

You will bring deep domain expertise in the Japanese Defence Industry , with a strong understanding of industry-specific applications for AI and digital in the Defence ecosystem. Your insights will help shape transformation strategies that align with broader business goals and industry trends.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 10+ years customer-facing experience in the Defence Industry

• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 8+ years customer-facing experience in the Defence Industry

• OR equivalent experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Engagement : Act as a trusted advisor to C-level decision-makers, identifying innovation opportunities and aligning technology capabilities to industry-specific challenges.
• Digital Transformation Leadership : Guide customers through the adoption of AI, cloud, and data-driven solutions to modernise legacy systems, enable predictive operations, and accelerate time-to-market for new services.
• Sales Enablement : Lead industry-focused sales motions, support account planning, and contribute to pipeline growth through thought leadership and customer co-innovation.
• Ecosystem Collaboration : Partner with ISVs, SIs, and infrastructure providers to scale industry solutions across the WWPS landscape.
• Knowledge Sharing : Translate complex industry trends into actionable insights for internal teams, helping shape go-to-market strategies and solution development.

Planning & Engagement

• Acts as the industry expert in digital transformation account planning, driving engagement with internal/external stakeholders (e.g., Key Business Leaders, GSIs, ISVs).
• Provides thought leadership on global industry trends to activate and evangelize Microsoft strategies in local markets and key accounts.
• Leads relationship and stakeholder mapping to identify influential decision makers, accelerating account maturation and strategic alignment.
• Owns multi-horizon planning, creating segment-focused roadmaps based on business and technology priorities.
• Builds influential relationships with executive-level decision makers, positioning Microsoft as a strategic partner.
• Navigates complex environments to ensure alignment and execution of account roadmaps, regularly communicating as a thought leader.

Sales Execution

• Identifies solution opportunities and gaps based on customer needs and priorities.
• Advances high-impact, repeatable use cases and scenarios for reuse across customers and solution plays.
• Envisions new product scenarios and works with product teams to address white spaces.
• Accelerates solution plays with an industry narrative, leveraging expertise to drive innovative opportunities.
• Leads strategic discussions with board-level and senior executive stakeholders to design end states aligned with customer goals.
• Shapes strategy by providing long-term recommendations and building compelling business-value cases for Microsoft solutions.
• Recognized as a trusted advisor, guiding senior decision makers through consultative selling and strong financial business cases.

Collaboration & Partner Management

• Engages with Business Strategy Leads, Business Decision Makers, and Partner Development Managers to orchestrate customer opportunities.
• Collaborates with Industry Solutions Delivery, solution architects, and external stakeholders to design envisioned solutions.
• Drives go-to-market strategy and formal partnerships, articulating the case for developing solutions on Microsoft cloud.
• Shares consultative selling approaches and best practices, guiding account teams and prioritizing scalable opportunities.

Industry Expertise

• Completes required training and certifications, acting as a subject matter expert and thought leader.
• Shares industry depth, trends, and policy implications, providing recommendations and feedback across teams.
• Proactively seeks additional training to build career competencies and industry-specific expertise.