Biz Apps Digital Technology Specialist

**Why Microsoft**

The Small, Medium, and Corporate team helps businesses achieve their digital transformation and business goals by helping customers with Microsoft solutions and partners. Located in either a Digital Sales center, or a local subsidiary, you will help our managed and scale customers across industries, company sizes and territories to identify their needs and opportunities using the latest in digital selling technology including big data and analytics. One of the fastest growing customer segments in the industry, you will help customers realize value from the Microsoft Cloud across customer solution areas like Modern Work, Security, Business Applications, Infrastructure, Data and AI, and Application Innovation.

The reinvention of business processes is a growth engine for Microsoft cloud services. The mission of Microsoft Business Applications is to help our customers digitally transform their businesses to drive new sources of revenue, create new and engaging ways to serve their customers, and to transform the way in which their business runs to drive new levels of profitability for their organization.

**Responsibilities**:
**The purpose of this role**

**Key Areas of Responsibility-**
- Workload and Business Process Expertise
- Achieve technical workload expertise for Business Applications Finance products.
- Participate in discovery sessions in each opportunity, yielding output of customer-agreed business challenges and win themes prioritized with business value.
- Maximize deal execution through the customer journey
- Team with Sales Executives to uncover, identify and engage opportunities to drive category performance.
- Build positive Business Decision Maker/CxO connections/engagements across category-specific roles with business value alignment by targeted personas.
- Engage in partner sell-with scenarios by contributing to the facilitation of technical engagements and partnering with colleagues to manage the sales process.
- Influences competitive strategy leveraging partner and internal teams; Acts as the voice of the customer by driving new feedback, blockers, insights, resource items across communities to support customer’s business outcomes and opportunities to promote usage.
- Share ideas, insight, and strategic-technical input with internal and external communities.
- Provide thought leadership by acting as role model for the technical community and consistently sharing knowledge.

**Qualifications**:
**What skills do you need to have?**

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:

- Strategic thinking & execution. Ability to develop sales and business strategy options, while also being able to successfully execute plans and build strong relationships.
- Strong negotiation, organizational, presentation, financial acumen, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Collaborative. Work cohesively with members of the Microsoft sales & services team, Microsoft partners, engineering, and marketing to solve customer and partner issues, leverage best practices, & deliver results.
- Growth Mindset. Ability to overcome and work around problems that are inevitable in rapidly growing businesses - positive approach to problem solving, learning, and development.
- Deliver business impact with intentional planning, driving clarity to the team with consistent coaching rhythms, removing blockers and ensuring quarterly business budget goals are met.
- Maintains excellence in pipeline management, forecasting and driving integrated territory and budget achievement planning.
- Business value selling methodologies and practices mapped to customer persona pains/issues to uncover customer’s stated and unstated needs.

**Required/Minimum Qualifications**
- Relevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- OR equivalent experience.

**Team Culture and Support**

Microsoft believes that by investing in our people and creating an inclusive environment, our team will do their best work. See our complete list of benefits and why we are recognised as an Endorsed Employer for Women by WORK180. Microsoft Benefits | WORK180 Endorsed Employer.

Our mission is deeply inclusive. Inside Microsoft | Global Diversity and Inclusion at Microsoft.

**What next?**

Even if you feel you may not meet 100% of the criteria, please apply. You may exceed your own expectations, or we may have another opportunity that suits your potential. While we’re not able to reach out directly to every applicant, we will always do our best to help you feel heard and supported throughout the experience.

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