Microsoft Solution Area Specialists - Security 

India, Maharashtra, Mumbai 

890102115

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration or related field AND 4+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ 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 (i.e., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.

• 4+ years of solution or services sales experience.

• Sales Execution: Introduces how to enable secure digital transformation across workloads and collaborates with a virtual team to assess customer needs and proactively build an external stakeholder mapping to implement strategies to accelerate the closing of deals, drive consumption and licensing transactions to grow business with current and new Customers.
• Scaling and Collaboration: Collaborates on the planning, orchestration, and execution on end-to-end Security opportunities with internal stakeholders and partners to cross-sell and up-sell.
• Technical Expertise: Leads end-to-end Security conversations, shares best practices and key competitor knowledge across solution areas, and evaluates opportunities to make recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal.
  • Exhibits outstanding operational excellence – including monthly/quarterly forecasting, building healthy pipeline, CRM entry and hygiene, opportunity management and virtual team orchestration.
  • Experience driving new sales and new customers using innovative approaches, leveraging joint partnership events, social selling (LinkedIn) and networking.
  • Enterprise customer level experience with cloud, security technologies (Identity and Access Management, Threat protection, Data protection, Cloud Security), and industry standards recommended
• Sales Excellence: Leads and plans for strategic accounts in the assigned territory, does business analysis to pursue high-potential customers and manages the End-to-End Security business across the assigned territory. Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry.
• Sales and Technology
  • Exceed sales goals in an assigned sales territory
  • Demonstrated sales and partner management experience
  • Competes to win new market share
  • Significant experience delivering persuasive presentations to business decision makers