Microsoft Digital Account Executive 

Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona 

269292628

The Digital Account Executive facilitates Microsoft to better serve our SMC-Corporate managed clients realize their potential and help them on their Digital Transformation journey. The Account Executive adds value by developing and maintaining strong customer relationships that include building relationships with executives at the Chief-level (CxO) as well as other Business and Technical Decision Makers within the customers’ organizations. You will effectively leverage all the digital tools and processes available and orchestrate the other members of the team to address customer needs and requirements. Additionally, you will engage with Partners to be able to find the best solution that will address the customer needs.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Demonstrated sales and negotiation experience with year-over-year growth
  
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) or related field AND sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience with year-over-year growth

Professional 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. Strong negotiation, organizational, presentation, financial acumen, written, and verbal communication skills.
• High Performer. Highly driven person who consistently exceeds goals and expectations and has the ability, characteristics, and determination to compete effectively against skilled and diverse competition.
• Collaborative. Work cohesively with members of the Microsoft sales & services team, Microsoft partners, engineering, and marketing to solve customer and partner issues, leverage best practices, & deliver results.
• Growth Mindset. Ability to overcome and work around problems that are inevitable in rapidly growing businesses – positive approach to problem solving, learning, and development.
• Purposeful Planner & Executor – Delivers business impact with intentional planning, driving clarity to the team with consistent coaching rhythms, removing blockers and ensuring quarterly business budget goals are met.
• Disciplined Operator – Maintains excellence in pipeline management, forecasting and driving integrated territory and budget achievement planning.

Technical Skills

• Complex sales training, (extensive presentation skills, effective marketing tactics, negotiation, financial analysis,
• Knowledge and sales experience of cloud offerings and solutions is preferred
• Knowledge and sales experience of line of Business applications, business process consulting or automation, CRM, Employee Performance Management (systems and processes).
• Fluent Swedish speaker

Customer Engagement

• Central point maintaining strong customer relationships and advocates for customers within the organization/Microsoft.
• Surfaces customer organization structure to identify decision makers leveraging partners and v-teams.
• Ensures continuity of customer accounts and monitors customer satisfaction metrics by proactively establishing conditions of satisfaction at outset of engagement and managing escalation process.

Account Management

• Thinks strategically about sales territory for accounts, setting standards and priorities, outlining where to and how to leverage specialized and technical resources and other roles, engaging internal and external decision makers on long-term business planning.
• Helps existing/new customers to cloud solutions via a cohesive plan across adds, consumption, , through upsell, cosell motions, and renewal maximizing customer business outcomes and experience
• Understands and accelerates customer’s cloud strategy.

Maintain Product, Solution and Industry Expertise -

• Proactively builds and maintains a strong knowledge of Microsoft's product landscape, solutions, and strategy in the industry of assigned accounts, as well as of the business priorities; demonstrates a strong understanding of the customers' business strategy and the direction of the industry.

Orchestration

• Orchestrates specialized resources to engage with customers to provide strong solutions-based and technology-based engagement to help customers address their challenges and opportunities.
• Leverages additional resources such as partners to engage with the customer to provide the right solution to the customer on their transformation journey.