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As a Digital Security Specialist, you will take the lead in harnessing the power of AI to achieve customer leadership. Your efforts will be instrumental in executing solution sales strategies by leveraging various programs and offers. Additionally, you will be responsible for selling cloud services and platforms tailored for our managed customers. Furthermore, you will play a significant role in enabling AI and Digital transformation momentum for our customers, partners, and Microsoft. Security has never been more top of mind for governments and businesses, and Microsoft Security Solution is committed to keeping nations and citizens secure in an increasingly complex cyber landscape. As the largest security company in the world, we are ideally placed to think outside the box to help our customers make the world a safer place. Following a year of incredible success, we are excited to be expanding our team with ambitious, diversified, and driven new talent, eager to make a difference in the fight against cybercrime. We are keen to hear your thoughts on how we can further achieve our purpose. Join our team and discover unique opportunities to grow, develop and learn. In the Security Specialists team, we are looking for passionate, experienced, and credible specialist sellers with a drive for developing and winning strategic opportunities that deliver end-to-end security thought leadership driving significant customer value and enabling transformational customer outcomes. As a Security Specialist you will build digital transformation security strategies with customers, collaborating across different groups inside the Customer environment to successfully enable them to be more secure. You will lead consultative customer conversations and collaborate on the planning, orchestration and execution of end-to-end Security opportunities with internal stakeholders and partners to cross-sell and up-sell. This opportunity will allow you to learn and accelerate your career growth, honing your solution sales and collaboration skills and deepening your end-to-end security expertise. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, honing your solution sales and collaboration skills, and deepening your cloud expertise. This role is flexible in that you can work up to [50% / up to 100% from home / This role is Microsoft onsite only].
Job Responsibility
Sales Execution- Engages in conversation with customers aligned to their industry and collaborates with account and partner team to drive and qualify new opportunities and build pipeline
Identifies customer business and technology readiness, proactively builds external stakeholders' mapping, implements strategies to accelerate the closing of deals, contributes input on strategies to drive and close prioritized opportunities, coaches junior team members in deal plan execution, and implements close plans
Business Value Selling: Hunt new Security opportunities by identifying and engaging with key business contacts, partners, understanding customers’ business and technology priorities, governance, decision and budget processes, and landing the value proposition
Scaling and Collaboration- Applies role orchestration model and navigates the Microsoft organization to bring the best impact to the customer
Collaborates with Global Partner Solutions (GPS), identifies new partners, develops joint proposals with partners, and contributes to developing partner strategies
Technical Expertise- You will initiate Security discussions with business decision makers conversations, share best practices and key competitor knowledge across solution areas acting as a subject matter expert to make recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal
Leads conversations and sets up events within Microsoft, mentors others and develops strategies for best practice sharing, initiates conversations with prospective customers/partners at events, acts as a subject matter expert in one or more solution area(s)
Collaborates with the 'compete' SMEs internally to analyze competitor products, solutions, and/or services and implement strategies
Sales Excellence: You will collaborate with partners and resources to plan for accounts, do compete plans, forecasting, and business analysis to pursue high-potential customers
Showcase a learning mentality: Demonstrate a willingness to invest in your personal learning in the Cybersecurity arena
Delivers Results Through Teamwork
Drives the execution of projects, partners and collaborates with other teams on related deliverables, and leverages others in relevant work streams
Requirements
6+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
Cybersecurity industry experience. Microsoft security portfolio knowledge preferred
Demonstrated experience selling complex, cloud-based solutions to Enterprise customers
Proven sales and negotiation experience
Demonstrated experience selling complex, cloud-based solutions to small and medium enterprise customers
Proven self-starter able to work towards delivery of goals as best practices are being developed
Able to drive technical security conversations and conduct product/solution demonstrations
Solid understanding of security market and complete solutions
Experience in managing channel sales
Nice to have
8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
OR Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
3+ years of solution sales or consulting services sales experience
Strategic thinking & execution
Excellent Communicator
High Performer
Collaborative
Growth Mindset
Purposeful Planner & Executor
Disciplined Operator
Technical breadth: Enterprise customer level experience with cloud, hybrid infrastructures, productivity and security technologies, and industry standards recommended
Technical Skills: AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals Certified or SC-900 Security & Compliance Fundaments Certified or prepared to attain SC-900 certification within 3 months
Proficient: Experience with complex sales training (e.g., Miller Hyman, Spin, Michael Bosworth, Holden, etc.) and sales methodologies