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Microsoft Advertising (MSA) empowers the largest advertisers around the world to reach their maximum potential through digital advertising solutions on the Microsoft Advertising platform. We are seeking a top performing Senior Client Director with digital advertising experience who can drive revenue and increase customer satisfaction by developing and cultivating strategic client relationships and delivering customized solutions aligning to the client’s advertising needs. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. This opportunity will allow you to develop deep business acumen, hone your selling skills, and become adept at driving partnerships. As a Senior Client Director in Microsoft Advertising, you will enable Microsoft to serve our most valued Enterprise & Strategic Advertisers by applying obsession with what clients care about and need, ensuring our Microsoft Advertising story is valued and understood, and building and maintaining solid and long term trusted-advisor relationships. You will drive revenue and client satisfaction across Microsoft Advertising performance solutions by building trusted relationships with C-level executives and business and technical decision-makers. You will create and execute long-range account plans that connect client priorities to measurable business outcomes, using growth motions that scale across stakeholders, regions, and segments where applicable. Your success is measured by specific success indicators focused on driving adoption, emphasizing customer experience and optimizing opportunities. This opportunity will allow you to execute with excellence to drive client success and business as well as drive both revenue and customer satisfaction across MSA’s performance solutions. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Job Responsibility
You will develop, lead and execute MSA France sales strategy & priorities to enable your advertisers’ growth while partnering with internal partner teams, including Client Solutions Manager and specialist teams, to develop and execute MSA account plans, leveraging winning sales strategies replicated across clients and client types
You will design and lead multiyear account and portfolio growth strategies, proactively mobilising internal partners to remove blockers and maintaining a solid business rhythm across the account v-team
You will act as a trusted advisor to senior marketing and digital leaders by turning platform capabilities, data, and insight into clear business value
You will influence strategic customer decisions, challenge legacy approaches, and position Microsoft Advertising within a broader One Microsoft growth story spanning Cloud, Data, AI, Commerce, and Measurement
You will lead outcome-led AI and intelligent marketing conversations, helping clients move from experimentation to scaled adoption
You will create revenue expansion mechanisms such as playbooks, investment theses, growth levers, and operating cadences that deliver durable, multi-year impact
You will strengthen Microsoft Advertising's market presence by contributing thought leadership in executive forums, industry conversations, and customer roundtables, while bringing external insight back into Microsoft to shape strategy and execution
You will operate as a force multiplier by coaching peers & partners, leading deals & negotiations, leading and reviewing account plans, and sharing templates and playbooks that improve outcomes across teams, always maintaining a positive , collaborative and learning atmosphere
You will lead the update of pipeline reviewing of top opportunities, identifying roadblocks, and ensures the right resources are engaged to overcome client objections
You will execute sales per expectations against pipeline, new client, and opportunity management goals per the MSA Solution Selling process for new deals, driving for advertisers’ verifiable outcomes at each stage
Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Sales, Marketing, or related field AND experience in sales, advertising, or marketing with a focus on online media, or digital advertising
OR Master's Degree in Business Administration in Sales, Marketing, or related field AND experience in sales, advertising, or marketing with a focus on online media, or digital advertising
OR experience in sales, advertising, or marketing with a focus on online media, or digital advertising
OR equivalent experience
Experience in online media, digital advertising, or Search Engine Marketing Sales and Service experience
Full proficiency in English and French (both written and verbal)
Nice to have
Bachelor's Degree in Sales, Marketing, or related field AND experience in sales, advertising, or marketing with a focus on online media, or digital advertising
OR Master's Degree in Business Administration in Sales, Marketing, or related field AND experience in sales, advertising, or marketing with a focus on online media, or digital advertising
OR equivalent experience
Experience making recommendations to senior- level executives