Account Executive

**Account Executive - Public Sector**:
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Date posted

**Jul 29, 2025**
- Job number

**1849038**
- Work site

**Up to 50% work from home**
- Travel

**25-50**%**
- Role type

**Individual Contributor**
- Profession

**Sales**
- Discipline

**Account Management**
- Employment type

**Full-Time**

**Overview**:

- Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Microsoft’s Public Sector Enterprise Account Team focuses on partnering with customers to achieve strategic goals.

As an Account Executive in this team, you will have the opportunity to drive Transformation in partnership with nominated Utility customers with a focus on AI, Copilot, Azure and Security to achieve both Microsoft and customer business outcomes. Leveraging your large, multi-functional team across the breadth of the Microsoft solutions portfolio, engage at the most senior levels of your customer, utilise our partner ecosystem and bring industry-relevant solutions to help the customer adopt and embrace digital technologies.

**Qualifications**:

- There will be many opportunities for you to learn and grow into this role and Microsoft.
However, to be able to best deliver on the purpose of this role, these are the core skills and experiences you should have on day one:

- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Technology, or related field AND 3+ years experience working in a relevant industry (e.g., financial services, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, energy, government, education) and/or driving digital transformation OR equivalent experience.
- Account management experience; developing and overseeing the execution of account plans
- Experience working in an industry (e.g., Public Sector, Education), driving digital transformation, or other relevant work experience (e.g., consulting, technology)
- Experienced in leading/orchestrating diverse v-teams.
- Experience in being the trusted advisor to executive-level business decision makers

**Responsibilities**:

- Customer Advocate - Develops and oversees the execution of account plan(s) to ensure Microsoft revenue targets and customer outcomes are met.
- Engages with internal and external stakeholders on business planning, to promote mutually beneficial customer digital transformation strategies.
- Orchestrate full customer team across all areas of Microsoft to ensure we are focused on delivering customer outcomes across the customer lifecycle to build deep trust with Microsoft.
- Industry Relevant Trusted Seller - Proactively develops a strong understanding of the customer’s business, industry priorities to drive new business opportunities/ drive growth and partnership frameworks.
- Advocates on behalf of the customer internally, ensuring requests and needs of assigned accounts are being addressed.
- Deliver Sales Excellence - Leads and orchestrates extended virtual teams across our solution areas to consistently achieve growth in revenue & market share.
- Industry Knowledge - Builds and maintains a strong knowledge of customers’ industry, associated business strategy, and key industry partners and solutions. Gains deeper insights and knowledge through direct engagement in their customers’ business and operations.
- Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
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Industry leading healthcare
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Educational resources
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Discounts on products and services
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Savings and investments
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Maternity and paternity leave
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Generous time away
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Giving programs
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Opportunities to network and connect