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Builds and coaches others on customer, partner, and internal stakeholder engagement strategy and models. Identifies, navigates, communicates, and influences key customer technical, business, and executive-level stakeholders (including partners). Synthesizes and combines various insights from their team and customer industry regarding business and Information Technology objectives for customer organizations using partnership with other account team leaders. Understands, identifies, and aligns Microsoft solutions, cross-cloud and technical capabilities. Drives conversations with customers to demonstrate alignment between customer objectives and the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account. In partnership with key stakeholders and executives, develops and delivers strategic roadmaps for executing program planning and customer-facing program review, prioritizing engagements, and influencing key stakeholder and executive expectations to address agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities to deliver ongoing customer success. Leverages and improves upon methods for identifying, monitoring, and mitigating actual and potential blockers to consumption through data analysis and customer feedback.
Job Responsibility:
Identifies, navigates, communicates, and influences key customer technical, business, and executive-level stakeholders (including partners)
Guides and leads conversations to facilitate the achievement of customer business objectives by leveraging their investment in Microsoft
Maps internal roles to customer priorities to action the needs of customers and provides input into customer priorities
Holds, maintains, and nurtures internal stakeholder relationships
Influences and challenges senior/executive internal stakeholders
Leads business value conversations at customer executive levels and coaches others to communicate effectively in business value conversations
Builds and coaches others on customer, partner, and internal stakeholder engagement strategy and models
Creates, influences, and evolves healthy, strategic relationships with key customer stakeholders, partners, and technical professionals to lead quality solution delivery and health using partnerships with other account team leaders and lead orchestration across internal/external stakeholders
Expands and holds accountability for executive customer and partner relationships with a focus on leading the definition of business outcomes and how to align Microsoft strategy to customer business priorities
Synthesizes and combines various insights from their team and customer industry regarding business and Information Technology objectives for customer organizations using partnership with other account team leaders
Identifies customer priorities with shared accountability for the creation of shared customer account plans to support customer objectives specific to the customer's business transformation programs and common to the industry
Provides leadership to the team to execute support and consumption delivery programs
Uses industry trends and program delivery progress to identify priority area to drive customer environmental health outcomes
Shares industry trends with customers in terms of Microsoft current practices for their industry
Leverages and improves upon methods for identifying, monitoring, and mitigating actual and potential blockers to consumption through data analysis and customer feedback
Mobilizes resources to address actual and potential blockers to consumption, ensure delivery on and continuously refine Customer Success Plans (CSPs), and identify opportunities for consumption optimization
Holds accountability for identified consumption milestones and their completion
Partners with customers to understand their business objectives and priorities, identify cross-selling and add-on opportunities, optimize usage, drive adoption, prioritize Microsoft products and services delivery to meet the most critical agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities, and develop and execute CSPs to meet them in order to manage consumption holistically across the entire portfolio
Proactively drives business growth strategies
In partnership with key stakeholders and executives, develops and delivers strategic roadmaps for executing program planning and customer-facing program review, prioritizing engagements, and influencing key stakeholder and executive expectations to address agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities to deliver ongoing customer success
Leverages, improves upon, and streamline Microsoft delivery management methodologies, processes, and tools to improve and mitigate risks to customer operational health
Proactively anticipates, identifies, and mitigates customer blockers and risks by leveraging Microsoft solutions and services, and develops deliverable programs of work
Orchestrates delivery resources to facilitate value realization with a focus on driving operational health
Leads delivery program reviews with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment on customer outcomes and account priorities
Leads escalation management and communications for delivery programs in the customer account
Drives conversations with customers to demonstrate alignment between customer objectives and the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account
Embraces the organizational and customer success strategy to maximize customer's investments and value
Drives and agrees upon a long-term approach to fuel adoption of Microsoft technology and services in alignment with the customer's goals and objectives
Drives account team planning, promoting business and technical needs for change to challenge customer thinking that drives transformation towards modern digital approaches
Aligns with the account team to link Customer Success Plans (CSPs) with account plan priorities and develop bookable programs of work
Challenges the customer and influences their strategic decision making, driving the case for change towards improved operational health
Understands, identifies, and aligns Microsoft solutions, cross-cloud and technical capabilities (e.g., Azure, Modern Work, Dynamics) to expand upon and accelerate customer needs and priorities
Leverages deep foundational industry, technical expertise, and visionary mindset to enable customer success
Articulates cross-cloud technology, solutions, and services in a compelling way to internal and external stakeholders
Evangelizes Microsoft's position in the customers' cloud technology marketplace against competitors
Leverages understanding of the customer's technology platform and Microsoft's technology roadmap to enable customer digital transformation
Requirements:
Master's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science or related field AND 6+ years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
OR equivalent experience
5+ years relevant work experience within customer industry
Microsoft or competitor equivalent (e.g., AWS) certification in relevant technologies (e.g., Azure, 365)
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation certification or equivalent service management certification
Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent Project Management certification