Segment and Success Metrics:
- This role is part of Microsoft’s Small, Medium, Enterprise & Corporate (SME&C) segment, working primarily with digital natives, enterprises, and small businesses that maintain a direct relationship with Microsoft directly covering SMB Accounts.
- Success is measured by net-new revenue contribution; workload adoption and expansion across the assigned portfolio.
Territory and Opportunity Management:
- Digital Solution Area Specialists are aligned to a defined set of accounts and are responsible for identifying net-new project opportunities, accelerating existing engagements, and driving solution-based outcomes within this portfolio in partnership with Digital Cloud Solution Architects that own these accounts.
Sales Execution
- Engages in conversations with customers to introduce how other Azure workloads could enable digital transformation areas that is aligned with the customer's industry and turns opportunities into deals. Has a deep understanding of customers' business and its priorities to drive conversations with customers on digital transformation across multiple Azure workloads, in collaboration with partners and services. Creates guiding examples of digital transformation through seminars, workshops, Webinars, and direct engagement.
- Collaborate with team members to discover new opportunities. Drives incremental revenue growth through personal campaigns. Connect with other (DCSA members) (e.g., portfolio analysis) or internal sources (e.g., marketing, account teams). Collaborate with account teams, partners, or services to track, qualify, and expand new opportunities. Collaborates with other teams (e.g., account teams) and services to build pipeline. Interfaces with customers and builds relationships via social selling. Applies Microsoft's sales process (MSP) to determine the quality of the opportunity and whether to proceed.
Scaling and Collaboration
- Applies the orchestration model to proactively drive deal closure by identifying and aligning internal stakeholders and leveraging and expanding relationships with partners.
Technical Expertise
- Collaborates with the "compete" global black belts (GBBs) to analyze competitor products, solutions, and/or services and implements strategies to position Microsoft against competitors in customer communication. Proactively provides analysis of the competitive landscape in supported solution area. Evaluates opportunities and makes recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal.
Sales Excellence
- Collaborates with stakeholders and resources and leverages customer insights or industry knowledge. Contributes to exploring business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and support customer innovation.
- Reviews feedback report and coaches others on ensuring customer/partner satisfaction and decreasing dissatisfaction by establishing recovery action plans to improve clients' overall experience. Manages and/or orchestrates sales and delivery success through the account team and pursuit team.
Other