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Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centred 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. Do you want to be part of a commercial sales team at one of the largest cloud companies in the world at the most exciting transformative time in the industry? The UK Commercial Executive is a sales role with exceptional stakeholder relationships, commercial acumen and negotiation skills who has a proven track record of building commercial proposals and negotiating complex and strategic deals. The Commercial Executive is a critical business role that supports creation of sales opportunities through to customer signature.
Job Responsibility:
Commercial and Deal management: Building customer-centric offers, whilst negotiating the best commercial and contract structure to maximise revenue from Microsoft and accelerate the business
Demonstrates customer understanding and connects with customers to understand business drivers impacting commercial needs
The accountability of deal management tracking deals to close
Driving the creation of best practices for deal making and building consistency across deals
Examine deals from different angles, modelling different variables to make the most effective deal
Ensure compliance is embedded in the deal making process
Bring strong communication skills with an ability to summarise complex scenarios and provide clarity
Apply sales methodologies
Collaboration and alignment with teams across the UK business: Demonstrates strong leadership and engagement with multiple stakeholders
Assesses when executive engagement is necessary due to deal size, complexity, or strategic importance
Work collaboratively with the partner ecosystem to drive successful business outcomes through partner commercial sales
Partner closely with UK Finance, Sales teams, Business Desks, CELA and specialist sales team to all aspects of the deal creation
Feedback and Influence where the development of local programs are required
Foster sharing of best practices and strategies across internal teams
Building a Customer Centric Engagement: Orchestrate across a range of internal and external stakeholders at senior levels
Align across teams, especially regarding aligning Microsoft portfolio and customer business outcomes
Demonstrates customer understanding
Build customer-centric offers
Presents and speaks at a C-level audience to understand business solutions outside of technology solutions
Anticipating potential escalations and customer reactions from an ethical selling perspective
Requirements:
Strong communication and analytical skills, with the ability to make sense of complex ideas and translate them into clear, practical guidance for a range of stakeholders
Experience leading commercial negotiations, with an understanding of how commercial constructs align to customer priorities and transformation goals
Comfort working with financial concepts and data, using analysis and scenario thinking to inform decision‑making and shape deal outcomes
Exposure to the governance and lifecycle of commercial deals, with an appreciation for managing risk, compliance, and stakeholder inputs through to completion
Ability to engage confidently with senior stakeholders, explaining commercial considerations and trade‑offs in a clear and accessible way
Collaborative mindset, with experience working across Sales, Finance, Legal, and Partner teams to progress opportunities and deliver shared outcomes