Sales Manager, Local Public Services (North)

A career at Microsoft will give you the opportunity to join a talented and passionate team in pursuit of helping Local Authorities, Combined Authorities, Scottish Public Sector customers and Local Transport organisations drive meaningful, positive change, with greater outcomes for Citizens, Communities and Businesses in the region they serve. You’ll be leading a team whose remit is to make a difference and have a lasting impact on the UK at a time where we are facing seismic change in the sector. In the Local Public Services Team, we care deeply about supporting Local Authorities and Public Service bodies to get the most out of the solutions they invest in. It is our responsibility to help Public Sector organisations in the UK to make better decisions that result in better care for the most vulnerable members of society. To do that, we need to help our customers become more productive, to get more from their data, and to leverage Copilot, Agents, Dynamics and Power Platform to automate as many processes as possible to free up time for their people to offer fantastic services, care and compassion to those citizens who need it the most. To help our customers achieve this, Microsoft have a broad team who bring diverse perspectives to our customers. Building alliances with varying stakeholders at our customer to support their Digital Transformation journey. This Sales Manager role will see the successful candidate lead a team of Account and Technology Strategists tasked with making this vision a reality. Working across Major Upper and Strategic accounts, the leader of this team will need to coach teams leading large, complex deals, whilst ensuring a consistent motion of repeatable scale activities is delivered in line with the broader LPS strategy. The candidate will need to show a good understanding of how our partner network operates, and how we can work even more closely with the Partner network to help us move quickly through sales cycles through to value delivery.