Strategic Account Executive

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand · Strategic Account Management

This role is for a Strategic Account Executive at Microsoft New Zealand, focusing on the Health Sector. The primary responsibility is to lead Microsoft's engagement with Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora, driving their 10-year Digital Health Plan. The role involves developing and executing account strategies, building CXO-level relationships, and orchestrating virtual teams to deliver transformative business outcomes through technology, including AI and cloud platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. The Senior Account Executive sets the strategy, drives action and progress towards strategic objectives and value realization, by solving for the customers business outcomes with multi-year goals.
  2. They bring innovation and ideas, creating new initiatives for business value through technology capability towards digital transformation.
  3. They own the trusted CXO level relationships and deep networks in business and are the visionary that takes their customers leaders on a journey using industry and business acumen to make those dreams of today, tangible business outcomes of tomorrow.

Skills

Required

  • Sales
  • Consulting
  • Account Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Relationship Building
  • Team Orchestration
  • Understanding of AI, cloud platforms, security, and productivity tools

Nice to have

  • Experience coaching or managing sales or technical teams

What the JD emphasized

  • 9+ years of building strategic business partnerships through selling or consulting with enterprise customers
  • 5+ years of experience driving digital transformation from within the enterprise customer
  • An understanding of how to build a technical strategy and roadmap, gaining executive buy in and how to orchestrate a team to execute against that.