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The Digital Natives - Sr. Account Executive at Microsoft leads our most valued customers into the digital age. Embracing a challenger mindset, the successful Account Executive manages, orchestrates and leads their virtual teams and closes opportunities with customers that produce transformative business outcomes.
Job Responsibility:
Understands customer drivers and business outcomes of digital transformation and contributes to Digital/transformation with the customer
initiates conversations with customers on digital transformation for assigned accounts
Ensures line-of-business wins are captured (e.g., testimonials) for referencing
Develops an understanding of the customer's industry and the needs of each assigned account and identifies opportunities to drive optimizations and new digitalization solutions/ideas based on their needs and strategies
works on behalf of the customer
Manages and executes plans for multiple accounts to ensure Microsoft targets and customer business needs are met
coordinates with extended virtual teams and holds self and the team accountable for executing on plans and meeting customer needs
outlines revenue targets to deliver on account plans
orchestrates extended team and embraces partners to scale business
ensures sales consumption and adoption goals on target
Requirements:
10+ years of selling to or consulting with enterprise customers along with expertise of selling into startups, unicorns or digital natives
5+ years of experience driving digital transformation from within the enterprise customers
Bachelor’s degree or MBA preferred
or equivalent experience
Experience to lead multi-cultural, diverse and remote teams across different disciplines
Proven ability to understand customer needs, create and deliver customized, customer-focused pitches and solutions
Effectively navigate through ambiguity and complexities related to client management
Embody “we-before-me” and the “customer first” mindset that delivers long term success over short term returns
Solid knowledge of one industry required (i.e. Government, Education, Healthcare, Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Automotive, Telco, Media, Oil/Gas/Energy, etc.)
The ability to adapt one's behavior to different people and situations, while recognizing, acknowledging and understanding different perspectives