Cloud & AI (azure) Solution Sales Specialist for Global It Service

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · Solution Area Specialists

This role is for a Solution Sales Specialist focused on driving AI transformation for enterprise customers using Azure. The primary responsibility is sales and customer engagement, leading initiatives around infrastructure modernization, AI agent adoption, and data platform transformation to maximize business value. The role involves collaborating with internal teams and partners to close deals and position Microsoft solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Engage customers through industry-specific business discussions, identifying strategic business challenges and positioning Azure solutions to create and convert opportunities into revenue growth.
  2. Collaborate with account teams, global technical specialists, customer success managers, solution architects, and partners to develop and execute closing strategies for strategic opportunities.
  3. Partner with Global Black Belt (GBB) teams to analyze competitive products and services and develop differentiated Microsoft value propositions across Infrastructure, Data, and AI solutions.
  4. Manage business execution across the territory using the Microsoft Customer Engagement Methodology (MCEM), evaluating opportunity quality throughout the sales lifecycle and executing effective closing plans.
  5. Assess customer business priorities and technology readiness to develop demand-generation and engagement strategies for executive stakeholders, including C-level leaders.

Skills

Required

  • Sales
  • Customer Engagement
  • Solution Selling
  • Business Development
  • Account Management
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Azure

Nice to have

  • AI
  • Data Platforms
  • Infrastructure Modernization

What the JD emphasized

  • AI transformation
  • AI agent adoption
  • AI Platforms