Overview
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 driving new levels of profitability for their organization.
Are you ready to join a double-digit growth cloud business? Microsoft Business Applications cloud is recognized by analysts as a leader in the CRM, ERP and application platform space. Trusted by global businesses as their platform of choice, Microsoft Business Applications uniquely enables customers to optimize their operations, engage their customers, empower their people and transform their products. It’s a new data-driven world, and Microsoft is the only platform in the industry built from the ground up with data and intelligence at the center. Microsoft Business Application solutions include virtually unlimited data sources from customers’ applications including legacy, first and third-party, vendor, customer and many more.
This unified approach to data and intelligence enables customers to make informed proactive business decisions with deep insights powered by AI and industry-leading analytics (Power BI) resulting in the following key customer benefits:
- Create impact faster: Deliver more impact in less time by quickly deploying solutions, or augmenting existing ones, to enable teams to accelerate business results and increase time to value.
- Break through barriers: Take a data-first approach with unified data that leverages Microsoft AI to deliver insights and actions that help create better customer experiences.
- **Adapt to anything: **Agility to react and respond to new business priorities, market conditions and customer opportunities with rapidly deployable solutions.
- **Innovate everywhere: **Solve problems with powerful solutions only possible with the Microsoft cloud enabling interoperable solutions across multiple lines of business.
Responsibilities
- **Business Applications Sales Executive **– you will be an account/industry-aligned, outcome-driven business process transformation enabler within the Microsoft specialist sales organization working with our most important customers helping them with their end-to-end business transformation needs by envisioning solutions and mapping capabilities with associated business value to business decision maker persona pains/needs. You will execute with excellence the entire sales process by owning and orchestrating a virtual pursuit team of technically intense workload (solution) experts including presales, co-sell partners, and Independent Software Vendors to provide customers with solutions aligned to their end-to-end business transformation needs using Microsoft Business Applications’ portfolio of offerings. You will use the Microsoft Catalyst sales methodology to enable customers’ digital transformation journey focusing on the business value and outcomes from Microsoft Business Applications solutions.
**Responsibility: **
- **Build Pipe in Alignment with Account Teams & Cross-Solution Areas **– Build pipe by leading with industry, using digital signals and insights to prospect, network, identify, engage and nurture with right BDMs, align and gain account team commitment, plug into cross solution sales motions.
- **Envision Industry-aligned Customer-centric Solutions with Business Value Insights **– Discover and envision industry-based solutions with business value insights working with a pursuit team of technically intense workload experts and partners’ resources to quantify and qualify end-to-end connected solution use cases expanding opportunity value across line of business BDMs.
- **Engage with Partner(s) **– Leverage and scale through early alignment with priority co-sell partners and ISVs.
- **Develop Close Plan & Secure Customer Agreement to Envisioned Solution **– Gain customer agreement by successfully presenting the business case for change, aligning business pains with envisioned solution and associated business value.
- **Orchestrate Solution Design & Calculate/Present Business Value **– Orchestrate, bringing clarity to pursuit team to ensure designed solution(s) maps to envisioned solution and business value. Ensure design has an end-to-end view, building opportunities for future expansion of interconnected business processes after initial sale.
- **Negotiate with Proposals Mapped to Business Value **– Create compelling board-level presentations with proposals aligned to customer transformation plan mapped to business value impact. Deal crafting and negotiating using give gets/balance of trade and other resources. Engage Microsoft executives when required to expedite close and resolve stalemate/inaction.
- **Commitment for Customer Success **– Throughout the sales process and after sales closure ensure successful hand-off to customer success teams with a clearly documented deployment plan.
Qualifications
- Experience with selling CRM/ERP or similar software-as-a-service, cloud-based business applications to large enterprise accounts exceeding sales targets.
- Developing demand and pipe by building BDM networking, assessing strategic customer objectives, digital transformation opportunity discovery, key improvement scenarios and an ability to measure and present incremental and new economic value from solutions proposed.
- Ability to sell solutions with connected end-to-end business transformation across business units within enterprise accounts.
- Leading/orchestrating sales processes across account planning, opportunity planning, deal negotiation, customer decision frameworks, evaluation plans and engaging in sophisticated business case discussions.
- Deal crafting, negotiating terms and contracts for multimillion-dollar digital transformation initiatives.
- Disciplined operator with demonstrated accuracy in forecasting business and maintaining pipeline hygiene.
- Strong track record and history of carrying and exceeding an enterprise account sales quota.
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.**