Microsoft Pursuit Lead Manager PLM 

Japan 

296529854

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years enterprise technology sales, consulting, delivery management experience, or relevant experience
• OR bachelor's degree in business, Management, Technology or related field AND 6+ years enterprise technology sales, consulting, delivery management experience, or relevant experience
• OR master's degree in business, Management, Technology or related field AND 4+ years enterprise technology sales, consulting, delivery management experience, or relevant experience.
• 3+ years people management experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 14+ years enterprise technology sales, consulting, delivery management experience, or relevant experience
• OR bachelor's degree in business, Management, Technology or related field AND 8+ years enterprise technology sales, consulting, delivery management experience, or relevant experience
• OR master's degree in business, Management, Technology or related field AND 6+ years enterprise technology sales, consulting, delivery management experience, or relevant experience.

3+ years pre-sales or bid management experience.

People Management

• Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
• Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
• Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
• Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.

Pursuit Leadership

• Participates and supports the deal qualification process with ORB (Opportunity Review Board), managing prioritization against pursuit management capacity. Ensures pursuit teams assemble and lead a relevant team of technical and sales resources with a broad variety of expertise across domains to support pre-sales engagements and deal shaping for pursuits.
• Leads collaborative engagements between pursuit, sales, delivery, and business operations to drive deal pursuits. Coaches team to influence customers and internal stakeholders to remove obstacles and drive deals forward. Learns and applies lessons from experience to future pursuits. Shares lessons with others to enhance growth and efficiency. Leads and coaches partners and Microsoft stakeholders on the common sales and delivery methodology for Microsoft and related processes. Represents the Regional Pursuit Organization to drive clarity with partners and stakeholders.
• Contributes to the progression of the deal and ensures team members work with sales in pursuit to create winnable deals. Knows when to challenge issues and assumptions. Guides team to continue deal qualification as appropriate and may influence in/out of a pursuit. Helps sales team expand deals through pursuit team.

Deal Quality

• Coordinates and influences the development of portfolio of deals, inclusive of pursuit artifacts, for relevant deals that meet customer expectations of scope, timeline, deliverables, and business outcomes. Defines expectations and accountabilities for artifact development and ensures they are followed by team members. Ensures consistency and direction across artifacts.
• Directs pursuit team to balance customer expectations with Microsoft business goals while mitigating risk for clients and Microsoft and maximizing delivery best practices (e.g., right shoring, delivery mix capabilities that include partners) and deal profitability.
• Provides clarity on complex or unclear requirements (e.g., region), and holds team accountable for analyzing insights to shape deals and pursuit artifacts. Identifies those who can apply solution area knowledge to improve deal quality for the practice. Leverages lessons learned and shares knowledge with others.

Execution

• Holds team accountable for collaborating with sales and the Industry Solutions teams to create and execute combined opportunity plan for deals that outline owners and their actions and drives deal velocity.
• May create or facilitate intellectual property (IP) through team. Identifies trends in the use of intellectual property (IP). Adapts practices according to trends. Models reuse of intellectual property (IP) appropriately. Seeks and actively includes intellectual property (IP). Acts as a champion within community to model learning and reuse pursuit approaches, best practices, tips, and tricks, and contributes back to the community.
• Coaches area, service line, domain, and pursuit teams to achieve effective high quality reviews, approvals and contracts. Champions velocity and quality initiatives to deliver agility in contracting, leveraging teams, and support as player/coach for selected customers and deals. Work with sellers, operations and Deal and Contract Assistance (DCA) to issue contracts, supporting sales through negotiations with the customer as well as contract signature and processing.
• Ensures the pursuit teams manage and execute pursuits using standard processes and tools according to the defined sales and delivery methodology for Microsoft, including sales to delivery handover.

Portfolio Management

• Oversees a broad portfolio of pursuits within their team. Maintains portfolio health by helping their team make decisions, prioritize actions, engage stakeholders, and remove blockers. Manages pursuit lead capacity through deal prioritization with area sales and delivery leadership.

Business Growth

• Contributes to landing and adoption of Industry Solutions Delivery strategies and acts as change advocate for initiatives that impact deal shaping and sales.
• Negotiates, collaborates on, reviews, and approves deals through Sales and within Industry Solution teams. Challenges deal construct to ensure Microsoft initiatives are incorporated appropriately.
• Drives a team of pursuit leads to meet business targets and core priorities around consumption and the pursuit portfolio. Supports sales growth, consumption, win rate, and financial target attainment. Ensures pursuit team alignment and holds team accountable for delivering on strategy.

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