7-10 years' experience with recent 3-5 yrs working with cloud products and services, including Azure or similar cloud providers.
Good knowledge of the cloud market in any part of Asia & with partners.
Extensive experience in managing and expanding product and solution portfolios, driving demand generation, and accelerating pipelines within complex organizations (e.g., multinational or matrixed).
Proven expertise in business planning, sales enablement, business development, and technical pre-sales.
Skilled in defining and executing marketing plans and strategies.
Deep understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to address customer needs.
Responsibilities
Drive Business Performance
Partners with SME&C team (Corp & SMB) to drive GTM for aligned Solution Plays, identifying growth opportunities in the market and builds clear execution plans.
Lead identified workload(s) to go deeper, gather tech & business expertise and enable sellers/partners across Asia
Align, influence and coach field teams, sales operations, marketing plans, business rhythms and change management to convert strategic priorities into local execution.
Collaborate with Microsoft core teams as well as partners to bring the voice of field and co-design strategy and programs.
Leads Sales Enablement
Lands and champions solution plays, activating connected sales and marketing execution in every segment to maximize performance and share.
Lead and collaborate with GPS for local partner-led marketing strategies and demand generation that support solution play performance.
Champions Microsoft strategy and Solution Areas and builds industry presence.
Champions Product Advocacy
Advocates as the voice of the Customer, Partners and Field to provide thought leadership on competitive landscape, solution area gaps, sales trends, etc. to drive improvements on the GTM plan.
Grows organization capability to drive true insights, learnings and blockers for leaders, managers, and sellers.
Drives standardized rhythms and tools that drive increased customer and partner facing time for sellers.
Activates leaders and managers on investments and resource optimization, leveraging data and analysis.
Exemplifies Microsoft Values, Culture, Leadership Principles
Creates clarity by creating a shared understanding and building a clear course of action.
Boundary-less leader who pursues right outcomes to achieve success.
Models living the Microsoft culture and drives our leadership principles and Model, Coach and Care.
Respected People & Organization Leader
Builds organization capability for employees, partners, and market opportunities.
Grows effective & inclusive teams where people can do their best work.
Influences and transforms behaviors and evangelizes new ways of working.