Cloud & Ai Platforms Gtm Manager

At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team—one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation.

SME&C is more than a sales organization—it’s a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do. If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how SME&C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business.

The Sales Enablement & Operations (SE&O) team plays an essential role in translating Microsoft’s Commercial Strategy to a local execution plan and driving operational excellence to achieve the greatest results possible. Our team drives cross-Region, cross-Area and cross-Subsidiary insight and execution excellence, bringing strategy and priorities to life by accelerating the pace of transformation and enabling Microsoft to deliver business impact at scale.

As the Activation GTM Manager for Cloud & AI in SME&C Asia, you will accelerate revenue growth, boost field agility, and deliver results with our field sellers by deepening your partnership with key stakeholders across GCR and Asia Sales Excellence, sales, marketing, consulting, customer success, and partner functions, supporting One-Microsoft. You will focus on driving alignment across processes and tools, leading with a cross-solution approach to optimize pipelines, ensuring effective communication and flawless execution, and leveraging insights to drive data-driven decision-making. This role is critical to driving customer adoption at scale, driven by deep solution play domain, product truth, and partnerships with sales, marketing, operations, and sales excellence.

We’re looking for a highly driven, motivated marketing or sales individual to join our Go-to-Market (GTM) team. This role requires someone who acts as a thought leader, tracks success criteria and performance metrics, works with emergent technology, creates alignment and action across teams, removes roadblocks, and simplifies complex concepts. This individual truly lives for big challenges. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, and hone your leadership skills.

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.

**Responsibilities**:

- You will develop and execute business strategy and tracks the efficacy of plans across the business to drive sustainable growth within and beyond the boundaries of the fiscal year as well as accept accountability for revenue, scorecard metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) for the business and identify strategic priorities and drives alignment across the business to enable the team/stakeholders to deliver against priorities.
- You will lead definition and orchestration of strategic go-to-market (GTM) plans across the business and develop plans inclusive of marketing, field, consulting, customer success, and partner functions that support a One Microsoft approach to overall business strategy and execution as well as partner with one commercial partner (OCP) to guide the development and execution of programs to recruit and enable partners to achieve target capacity and quality.
- You will ensure Business Group (BG) Leads and field communities have the leadership and enablement needed to run the business locally and serve as the primary orchestrator between the corporate and the field and ensure field and corporate leadership are aligned on business results and actions to take.
- You will drive area/subsidiary leadership through revealing and pursuing long-range, white-space growth opportunities and investment plans, including geographical expansion as well cross-references opportunities within the market with the area/subsidiary's capabilities in order to develop strategies that maximize performance across the business.
- You will drive a pipeline of feedback from sales to the supply chain and leverage regional competitive knowledge to develop business cases and land services with customers as well as provide authorization for investments and drives follow-through to ensure customers have hardware