Solution Area Specialists- Azure-Infra

4 weeks ago

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Microsoft Full time

Overview

As an Azure Infra Specialist covering some of our key accounts, you will be a solution sales leader within our business, leading a virtual team of technical, partner and consulting resources to advance the sales process and achieve/exceed quarterly Azure revenue and usage/consumption targets in your assigned accounts. You will be a trusted advisor and an infrastructure subject matter expert with core capability and expertise in server migration and modernization, VDI, security, and cloud economics.

You will work with customers to help them achieve their business priorities and help guide customer’s journey through infrastructure modernization, provide oversight towards application development and AI & data modernization tracks as well. You will help customers evaluate their applications and business requirements, recommend solutions that meet their criteria and demonstrate these solutions to win the technical decision together with technical pre-sales professionals. You will need to support customers in removing roadblocks to deployment and in driving customer satisfaction. You will help our customers take advantage of our unique and industry leading platform and infrastructure solutions to realize the value of their digital transformation portfolio.

You have to possess both a strong commercial drive and a high degree of strategic thinking on building 2-3 long term DC transformation projects.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

3+ years in technology-related sales, consulting or account management experience Proven experience with building strategic transformation roadmaps, solution selling in infrastructure, HCI, DC migration, VDI, security. Experience for Commercial customers is preferable. Having experience with application development tracks, AI and data innovation is considered a plus, however not a must.  Leadership. Experience leading large IT/Cloud engagements, especially those involving cross-solution workloads including infrastructure, data migration and application modernization projects Azure Infrastructure and Security Services. Understanding of Microsoft Azure Cloud platform with emphasis on Microsoft Infra services, hybrid cloud technologies, developer tools and services and/or complementing solutions. Consumption Project Management. Experience leveraging cloud adoption methodologies and frameworks to structure application migration projects - nice to have Prior work experience in a Consulting/Solutions Sales position working with Infra solutions ranging from IaaS, VMware, VDI, NW, SAP, Hybrid Cloud and Security solutions Technical Frameworks. Ability to leverage technical frameworks such as the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure to guide customers and partners through the cloud adoption journey Competitive Landscape. Knowledge of enterprise software solutions and cloud and datacenter infrastructure competitor landscape e.g., AWS and GCP, among others Partners. Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs

Responsibilities

Sales Execution : Manage your territory as a business and invest in your own skills to remain at the top of your Infrastructure game. You will be recognized for sharing, learning and driving work that results in business impact for customers, partners and Microsoft. We encourage thought leadership, and we encourage all our employees to continuously maintain and enhance their sales, business value, technical and professional skills as well as competitive readiness. You will therefore be required to attain and maintain relevant a proven level of knowledge.

Scaling and Collaboration : Ability to collaborate with a network of partners and internal stakeholders to cross-sell and up-sell. Skilled in researching and discussing with partners on customer scenarios, developing joint proposal with partners, and contributing to developing partner strategies to address gaps in partner capabilities.

Technical Expertise : You are an expert and a trusted advisor in matters such as Cloud Economics and an influencer in shaping customer decisions to commit, architect and adopt Microsoft Infrastructure and security solutions. You will win the customer’s decision for sales opportunities and consumption scenarios, through tailoring your message, bringing ideas to customers, engaging with them to show our technology differentiation, and guiding them in decision making. You will lead presentations, demonstrations and demonstrate, and prove to our largest customers the capabilities of Microsoft Azure Infra and Security Services, and how we can make their businesses more successful.

Sales Excellence : Spend time with customers identifying and surfacing new engagements that align with the customer’s business strategy. You will work with partners and others at Microsoft team members, as well as use our core tools and targeted account lists to identify and engage prioritized customers. You will be required to be disciplined in business-management, adaptable to a culture of accountability and build a strong and active business network.

Deliver Results Through Teamwork : Ability to identifying customers and operational needs in partnership with other teams. Skilled in setting priorities, removing barriers and obstacles, and allocating resources.

First glimpse of role requirements

Engages in conversations with customers to introduce how our solutions could enable digital transformation areas that is aligned with the customer's industry. Initiates conversations with customers on digital transformation within a solution area, in collaboration with partners and services. Shares learning on digital transformation through seminars, workshops, webinars, and direct engagement.  Able to build cloud onboarding and modernzation roadmaps for large complex organizations.  Collaborates with team members to discover new opportunities. Drives incremental revenue growth through personal campaigns (e.g., portfolio analysis) or internal sources (e.g., Marketing). Collaborates with account teams, architects, partners, or services to track and qualify new opportunities. Collaborates with other teams (e.g., account teams) and services to build pipeline. Interfaces with customers and builds relationships via social selling.  Identifies opportunities to drive consumption and grow business with existing customers by initiating conversations, providing demos or quotes, and collaborating with partners or internal teams (e.g., Technical Sales Professionals, Global Black Belts). For licensing transactions and project engagements, ensures rapid and robust deployment plan at point of sale that is validated by services and partners. Identifies customer business needs and technical readiness. Collaborates with internal teams, partners, and services to propose prioritized solutions that align with customers' needs. Leverages the value propositions to communicate business impact of proposed solutions. Listens to customers to understand business outcomes. Develops an understanding of external stakeholders' mapping, including who the decision makers and influencers are. Participates with account teams (e.g., Account Executives) in communication with business or subject matter decision makers at the customer's/partner's business. Implements strategies to help accelerate the closing of deals in collaboration with other team members. Implements close plans (e.g., how to map timeline, engage the customer, get customer buy-in and commitment) to de-risk and drive predictable deal closure. Effective territory/account management: planning, opportunity qualification and creation, analysis, value engineering, services/partner engagement, opportunity management, pipeline management and deal negotiation. Problem Solver. Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies. Business Value. Ability to understand and provide Return on investment and Total Cost of Ownership calculations based on consumption project cost estimates and demonstrate Cloud economic value to customers Collaborative. Orchestrate and influence virtual teams to pursue sales opportunities and lead v-teams through influence.  Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect

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