Senior Partner Technology Strategist

1 day ago


Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Microsoft Full time

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

The Global Partner Solutions (GPS) team mission is to: build and sell intelligent cloud and intelligent edge solutions with partners, empowering people, and organizations to achieve more. GPS is a sales organization accountable for the commercial partner business at Microsoft.

The PTS is at the forefront of our digital transformation efforts for our partners. The PTS plays a critical role in working with partners to influence and transform their technology roadmaps with Microsoft's technology priorities, to enable working with them to build new solutions that enable customers to realize the vision of Digital Transformation. The PTS is acts as the CTO for our Microsoft Partner Businesses - trusted Technical Leaders to Partners C-Suite technical and practice management executives.

The PTS is a strategist yet stands out because of their Insights and ability to envision with Partners and land Microsoft and Partner business outcomes.

**Responsibilities**:
**Key Areas of Responsibility - What the Partner Technology Strategist will do**:
**Transformation**:

- Transformational capability and mindset is a must. Leading Partnerships from out front to transform their businesses and to influence the broader transformation at Microsoft is critical. This role drives the prioritization for the Partners we build with to deliver needed capacity and capability and Microsoft MEA business outcomes.
- Creates and maintains a transformational vision and differentiated value proposition for our Partner solution scenarios and services that helps large-scale, high-stakes partners meet their business goals, achieve their long-term corporate vision, and maximize their and Microsoft success.

**Influence**
- ** Partners**: Influencing Partners to drive accelerated and differentiated transformational roadmaps and outcomes with Microsoft
- ** Microsoft**: Playing leadership role with the MEA Field and LT to accelerate joint transformational priorities and prioritize engagement
- ** Best Practices**: Proactively seeks out best practices from others and implements them. Establishes thought leadership to build best practices, prove them out and influence adoption
- ** Acts as the "virtual Chief Technology Officer (CTO)/Chief Digital Officer (CDO)**" for Partners and is sought out to advise and consult on solutions positioning Microsoft offerings.
- ** Leadership capability to drive virtual and extended team** outcomes across geos and business.

**High Value Resource Leverage**
- Strong capability to leverage the full extent of all Microsoft Resources from MEA GPS, MEA Field, WW Engineering, WW ISV & Services Teams, WW Business Groups to advance and amplify strategic initiatives and launch new initiatives to deliver on MEA outcomes
- Leveraging the matrix of people and leaders at MEA level and WW to accelerate outcomes
- Provides thought leadership and guidance to their partners, and the broader community

**Market Intelligence**
- Deliver unique market insights from the team and Partner business across countries that inform Transformational impact priorities
- Thought leadership through deep collaboration across the core business and from stakeholder engagement across Worldwide, Other Microsoft HQs, Local MEA stakeholders. Insights on market opportunity and compete
- Acts as the voice of the partner and internal advocate by providing insights, feedback, and challenges from the partner to internal teams (e.g., product groups, engineers) across all levels of the organization. Drives action to ensure that internal teams understand and respond to insights.

**Ensuring Success**
- Orchestrates a wide, complex range of components for projects/programs within large, high-stakes Partners. Ability to drive execution rigor across a variety of solution areas; sets timelines and milestones, and establishes rigor for the team to track progress toward objectives; leverages industry expertise and establishes technical credibility with partners to drive the project agenda.
- Collaborates across Global Partner Solutions and Microsoft MEA to realize the execution results with a north star of the end business result Microsoft MEA and Partners need to realize.

**Culture and Values**
- Embody our culture and values
- Thought leadership and leading by example Microsoft values mentioned above inclusive of Diversity and Inclusion - formulating and executing the plan for the team but also influencing the Partner ecosystem through leadership by example

**Qualifications**:
**Required/Minimum Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, E



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