Microsoft Digital Solution Specialist - Business Applications French speaker 

Ireland, Dublin 

535605897

Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs):

• Sales and negotiation experience; 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; OR Master's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) is required.
• Fluency in French is required.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

• Experience selling cloud services to large/global customers
• Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs.
• Knowledge of enterprise software solutions and cloud platform competitor landscape.
• Demonstrate the business value of Microsoft's solutions with an understanding of Microsoft's strategies and products relative to major Microsoft competitors.
• Ability to maintain a high level of productivity, manage competing priorities and work effectively with high levels of autonomy and self-direction in a fast-paced, collaborative, and dynamic teaming environment
• Capacity to learn and retain knowledge about systems, processes, products, and services quickly and accurately.
• Build relationships, collaborate, and influence across organizations, functions, and stakeholder groups.
• Operational and sales excellence discipline, including planning, opportunity qualification and creation, stakeholder communication, services/partner engagement and sales excellence practices including pipeline and opportunity management.
• A desire to learn, grow, and drive change.
• Experience with selling CRM/ERP or similar software-as-a-service, cloud-based business applications to large enterprise accounts exceeding sales targets.
• Developing demand and pipe by building BDM networking, assessing strategic customer objectives, digital transformation opportunity discovery, key improvement scenarios and an ability to measure and present incremental and new economic value from solutions proposed.
• Ability to sell solutions with connected end-to-end business transformation across business units within enterprise accounts.
• Disciplined operator with demonstrated accuracy in forecasting business and maintaining pipeline hygiene.

Customer First Mindset - Engage with and enable our customers and key decision-makers, delivering a connected customer engagement experience and driving customer satisfaction, through digital sales excellence, empowered by world-class data, marketing systems and platforms.

• Meet operational standards and maintain reporting accuracy for key metrics – including response rates, prospecting activity tracking, pipeline, conversion, velocity, and accuracy. Adopt program processes, procedures, and tools to provide accurate on-time reporting that maximizes attainment of strategic goals and delivers competitive business insights, trends, and analysis.
• Share best practices, learnings, and customer insights with stakeholder groups to elevate team capabilities and drive change based on insights.
• Work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and dynamic teaming environment with field specialists, technical resources, and partner teams to effectively manage customer opportunities, deliver connected customer experiences, achieve customer outcomes with Microsoft's leading cloud technologies, and accelerate value across the customer lifecycle.
• Effectively turn prospects and qualified digital leads into opportunities and revenue pipeline and engage with customers across industries, company sizes and types to determine their needs and identify opportunities to fulfill their needs with Microsoft's leading cloud technologies, with this role particularly focused on the specific solution area you are driving.
• Stay motivated and maintain a positive approach to problem-solving, learning, and development in a rapidly growing business with evolving market conditions and customer needs.
• Develop a strong understanding of your customers, their business application challenges, and strategic business objectives to identify their core needs and connect them with our Business applications.
• Engage with Partner(s) - Leverage and scale through aligning early with Global Partner Solutions (GPS) organization’s prioritized partners.