Microsoft Digital Sales Manager German speaking 

Ireland, Dublin 

116996854

• Bachelor's Degree AND demonstrated experience in Sales, Advertising, or Marketing and/or driving business growth or customer digital transformation, sales management, or leadership
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated people management experience
  • OR equivalent managing virtual Teams
• Proficiency in German Language is a requirement

Preferred Skills

• Strategic thinking & execution. Ability to develop sales and business strategy options, while also being able to successfully execute plans and build strong relationships.
• Excellent Communicator.
• High Performer &Works cohesively with members of the Microsoft sales & services team, Microsoft partners, engineering, and marketing
• Superior leadership skills with the ability to motivate team performance and improvement
• Purposeful Planner & Executor
• Disciplined Operator – Maintains excellence in pipeline management, forecasting and driving integrated territory and budget achievement planning.
• Complex sales training or equivalent experience
• Works well in a diverse team and enjoys a dynamic and changing environment

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.

• People Management
• Respected leader with the ability to attract, retain, and develop the best resources in the field. Inspire and foster a culture of customer-centricity and consumption, adoption and use through collaboration with peers and extended teams.
• Driving Business Growth by Customer and Partner Obsession
• Actively maintains and leverages a comprehensive understanding of their customers' business needs, strategies, and priorities within the portfolio and coach teams
• Empowers virtual teams to define strategies, objectives, and a rhythm of business (ROB)
• Lead & Role Model with a focus on a ‘Listen & Consult’ mindset with the customer in order to understand the customers business needs and opportunity to support new business growth.
• Provides guidance on storytelling strategies to lead account conversations, evaluating account performance, developing short- and long-term strategies
• Business Excellence
• Defines expectations and goals to guide the development strategies to manage pipeline and meet sales goals
• Ensure you and your team develops strong trusted advisor relationships with CxOs to help on their business transformation
• Drives engagements with key internal partners, business, and technical decision makers to develop business strategies that meet Microsoft's and customers' needs.
• People and Cultural Transformational Leader

Microsoft managers bring out the best in their people to achieve team and organization priorities. As a manager, personally commit to deliver success through empowerment and accountability by:

• Modeling: Live the culture, values and leadership principles. Share your management philosophy with your team and make it real through your words and actions.
• Coaching: Enable others’ performance. Build management skills by completing your learning path and development opportunities.
• Caring: Empower others to discover, connect, and grow. Have healthy, candid conversations (Connects, Perspectives, 1:1).