Microsoft Solution Area Specialist 

Germany 

497801807

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

Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs):

• Substantial, proven technology-related sales or account management experience.
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND solid technology-related sales or account management experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND technology-related sales or account management experience.

As a, you will be in touch with the largest German enterprises in Manufacturing. You will be involved into the key opportunities in the industry. You will accelerate your career growth and develop deep business acumen, hone your selling skills, and become adept at deal structuring.

Your responsibilities include:

• 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