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Are you passionate about driving cloud transformation across diverse industries? Join our dynamic team as a Cloud & AI Solution Specialist, where you will play a pivotal role in accelerating Microsoft Azure adoption across key enterprise customers. You will collaborate with a high-performing team of Solution Engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver impactful cloud solutions that address complex customer needs. As a Cloud & AI Specialist, you are a business leader with deep technical and business knowledge within our enterprise sales organization, working with our most important customers in Central Canada. A core competency of the role is to advance the engagement process to achieve/exceed quarterly Azure consumption targets across Infrastructure, Data, and AI platforms in your assigned accounts. You possess executive presence, you are able to engage with decision makers to drive AI transformation, and have an insatiable interest for learning how Azure cloud services can deliver digital transformation. You will lead a virtual team of sales, technical, and services resources to help customers realize transformation through cloud computing. You will identify projects, build a compelling business case, and drive the consumption project to production. You will build and maintain relationships with customers, influence long-term strategic direction and act as a trusted advisor driving engagement at the CXO level with business and technology decision makers. You will help customers evaluate their cloud strategy, determine approaches to application and data migration and modernization, and recommend solutions that meet their requirements. You will remove roadblocks to deployment and drive customer satisfaction.
Job Responsibility:
Brings impactful industry insights into customer engagements and closes deals with customers
Acts as a thought leader across solution areas to advise customers across business functions on digital transformation
Leads virtual transformational shifts to drive deployment and create business value for customers
May lead partner integration into account/territory planning and customer engagements
Provides thought leadership
Orchestrates with team members on conducting personal campaigns to discover new opportunities and generate new leads
Leads conversations with strategic/high-potential customers (e.g., high budget, global account, highly competitive) along with account teams or partners
Facilitates the account team unit (ATU) and/or Specialist Team Unit (STU) to build pipeline in collaboration with partners and services
Guides others on social selling
Applies Microsoft's sales process to determine the quality of the opportunity and whether to proceed and educate the customers on how to best address their needs
Leads the planning and execution on opportunities with resources and partners to cross-sell and up-sell
Identifies, leverages, and coordinates partners and resources across solution areas
Validates partner solution relevance for customers
Provides input and feedback to Global Partner Solutions (GPS) on developing partner strategies and connects the partner ecosystems to scale business results
Leads the sales orchestration with internal stakeholders and partners (e.g., Enterprise Operating Unit)
Applies a holistic approach to build network across territories
Positions opportunities to promote collaboration and participation
Builds and transforms new markets by leveraging technical and industry knowledge, partners, and resources
Leads a team to explore business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and facilitate customer innovation
Requirements:
7+ years technology-related sales or account management experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 6+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
9+ years technology-related sales or account management experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years technology-related sales or account management experience OR Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
6+ years solution or services sales experience
Requires a 200 level technical knowledge and has completed or is pursuing completion of Azure 900 level certifications