Microsoft Senior Sales Manager - Microsoft Advertising German Speaker 

Ireland, Dublin 

367056685

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Sales, Marketing, or technology related field AND 8+ years of experience in Sales, Advertising, or Marketing and/or driving business growth or customer digital transformation, sales management, or leadership
• OR Master's Degree in Business Administration Degree in Sales, Marketing, or related field AND 6+ years of experience in Sales, Advertising, or Marketing and/or driving business growth or customer digital transformation, sales management, or leadership
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years people management experience.
• Fluency in German is essential.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Sales, Marketing, or technology related field AND 12+ years of experience in Sales, Advertising, or Marketing and/or driving business growth or customer digital transformation, sales management, or leadership
• OR Master's Degree in Business Administration degree in Sales, Marketing, or related field AND 8+ years of experience in Sales, Advertising, or Marketing and/or driving business growth or customer digital transformation, sales management, or leadership
• OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience in a global technology company
• 6+ years Media sales

• You will deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring as well as attracting and retaining great people.
• You will drive business growth by leading sales planning and strategies to achieve consumption and sales targets. Sets direction, creates vision, inspires others and demonstrates presence.
• You will hold team accountable for forecasting expected sales revenue within the portfolio/customer segment(s) within their markets by defining expectations and goals to guide the development strategies to manage pipeline and meet sales goals by reviewing forecasts, assessing and mitigating risks, and ensuring strategy alignment with business priorities and share best practices while maintaining a high level of commitment and accountability.
• With your expert understanding of digital media platforms and technologies including competitor potential impact, you will leverage this to understand industry trends and how they shape market making opportunities.
• You will direct long-term customer satisfaction growth and maintenance strategies and drive business portfolio management to contribute to overall business growth as you manage relationships with customer stakeholders and the collection of feedback within the portfolio to identify and understand the drivers of satisfaction and/or dissatisfaction.
• You will direct the development and implementation of strategies for maximizing selling and customer add opportunities and ensure plans highlight solutions to solving additional business and technology issues while providing guidance on storytelling strategies to lead account conversations, evaluating account performance, developing short- and long-term strategies, and acting upon optimization opportunities.
• As a thought leader and trusted advisor to executive-level business decision makers across their business areas you will leverage and socialize best-in-class sales and communication techniques to direct efforts to lead teams and key internal and/or external stakeholders with deep industry expertise (e.g., industry solutions executives) and to enable their team(s) to build stronger relationships with decision makers across business areas.