Overview
本ポジションは、日本を代表する大手自動車会社、自動車部品メーカー、自動車販売会社などの経営層および業務部門・IT部門のリーダーと連携し、AI活用による業務変革を通じて、生産性向上や競争力強化といった経営課題の解決をリードするソリューションセールスロールです。Microsoft 365 Copilot, Agent365, Microsoft 365, Windows 365 をはじめとするAIソリューションの提案・導入を通じて、顧客の業務プロセス変革および組織全体の生産性向上を支援し、中長期的なビジネス変革の実現に向け継続的な顧客関係の構築とアップセル・クロスセル機会の最大化を担っていただきます。
Our purpose is to empower organizations to transform the way they work by harnessing the full potential of artificial intelligence. We guide customers through the evolving digital landscape, enabling them to unlock new opportunities, enhance productivity, and deliver exceptional employee and customer experiences. By integrating advanced AI capabilities across devices, cloud platforms, and everyday business applications, we help organizations realize seamless, innovative, and secure solutions that drive sustained growth and success in the AI era.
In the AI Workforce Specialists team, we are looking for passionate, experienced, and credible specialist sellers with a drive for developing and winning strategic opportunities that deliver end-to-end AI Workforce transformation at scale through high-impact, value-driven customer engagements—helping organizations achieve meaningful business outcomes and unlock the full potential of AI-powered productivity.
As a Solution Area Specialist, you will engage with business and IT leaders across enterprise accounts to identify strategic challenges and recommend AI Workforce solutions (M365 Copilot, Agent 365, Microsoft 365 and Windows 365) that drive operational efficiency and business outcomes. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, develop deep business and industry acumen, and build expertise in solution-based selling aligned to executive priorities. You will also gain experience managing end-to-end engagements, from opportunity development through to value realization.
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
Sales Execution: You will Orchestrate a virtual team and assess customer needs to develop strategies that proactively build a stakeholder network to accelerate and close AI Workforce opportunities.
Business Value & Consultative Selling: You will foster and expand Microsoft’s relationship with Customer Business Decision. Hunt new AI Workforce opportunities by identifying and engaging with key business contacts, understanding customers’ business and technology priorities, governance, decision and budget processes, and landing the value proposition of AI Workforce solutions.
Scaling and Collaboration: You will lead the planning, orchestration and execution of AI Workforce opportunities with internal stakeholders and partners to cross-sell and up-sell.
Technical Expertise: You will lead AI Workforce BDM and ITDM conversations, share best practices, present solutions with a differentiated value proposition, use cases and key competitor knowledge across solution areas acting as a subject matter expert to inform decisions on pursuit or withdrawal.
Sales Excellence: You will lead and plan for accounts across territories, do compete plans and business analysis to pursue high-potential customers and manage AI Workforce solutions across the organization.
In addition, you identify new partners by researching and discussing with partners on customer scenarios, lead conversations, and set up events within Microsoft. You collaborate with the "compete" global black belts (GBBs) to analyze competitor products, solutions, and/or services and implement strategies to position Microsoft against competitors in customer communication. You review feedback reports and coach others on ensuring customer/partner satisfaction and decreasing dissatisfaction by establishing recovery action plans to improve clients' overall experience.
Moreover, you manage the end-to-end business of the assigned territory, conduct forecasting for accounts, and develop a portfolio and territory plan to drive intentional selling aligned with strategic priorities.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 4+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
- OR 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)
Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technology,
- OR related field AND 3+ years of technology-related sales
- OR account management experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology,
- OR related field AND 6+ years of technology-related sales
- OR account management experience
- OR 7+ years of technology-related sales
4+ years of solution or services sales experience.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about **requesting accommodations.**