Microsoft Azure Specialist Manager 

China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island 

465799148

Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)

• 9+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 7+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

• 10+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience, with3+ year(s) of people management experience.
• 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.
  • Growth Mindset. Ability to overcome and work around problems that are inevitable in rapidly growing businesses – positive approach to problem solving, learning, and development.
  • Disciplined Operator – Maintains excellence in pipeline management, forecasting and driving integrated territory and budget achievement planning.
• Deep understanding of Azure & related hyperscale solutions and how they translate into business impact, including competitive landscape and related MS commercial cloud offerings
• Certification in Azure solution architect.
• Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA),

• People Leader
  • You will build and grow highly successful teams through talent management, diversity and inclusion, coaching, and career development.
  • Ability to attract, retain, and develop the most technical resources in the field. Inspire and foster a culture of customer-centricity and consumption, adoption and use through collaboration with peers and extended teams.
• Sales Execution
  • Lead teams to identify and track new opportunities, bring impactful industry insights into customer engagements, and lead a virtual cross-organizational team on strategic projects and high impact solution sales deployments that enable digital transformation and deliver business value.
  • Lead team to develop strategies through orchestration for driving and closing opportunities and guide team on communicating with customers to understand their business needs or facilitate customer interactions to assess needs.
• Scaling and Collaboration
  • Coach team to learn and apply the orchestration model and guide team to build a network of partners to cross-sell and up-sell.
• Technical Expertise
  • Coach team on business and market knowledge and act as a thought leader to help team connect Microsoft solution to customer business impact.
• Sales Excellence
  • Lay out customer satisfaction long-term strategies, guide team in whitespace analysis, and participate in regular strategic planning for assigned territory, review plans via ROB meetings, and align plans of team across departments.
  • Ensure team meet sales targets and operational standards and maintain the health of metrics within the assigned territory while mentoring/coaching team on growing knowledge on sales or products and ensuring team completes training and obtains certifications as required.