Industry Advisor

Industry teams impacts on Commercial Solutions Area performance with Industry Prioritized Scenarios and Sales Kits, leverages Prioritized Partners and lands Repeatable Solutions for Industry, in order to empower our customers to lead the digital transformation of the Financial Services industry.

We are looking for a senior and talented professional to strengthen our Financial Services Industry Advisory Team ideally in Germany and to create impact with a list of prioritized Insurances in the German, Swiss and all up EMEA market. As an Industry Advisor, you will have the opportunity to drive industry-focused sales for Microsoft. This role is responsible for originating sales and driving industry-led conversations with Insurers (Carriers, Brokers, Re-Insurers,) customers.

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.

**Responsibilities**:
**Planning and Engagement**
- Drives engagement with internal and external stakeholders on account planning, partner business planning (e.g., Key Business Leaders (KBLs), Global Systems Integrator [GSI], Independent Software Vendors [ISV]) and review of industry plans, lending credibility from an industry perspective.
- Owns multi-horizon planning to outline an approach for industry-oriented solution selling with the customer.
- Proactively continues to build and maintain mutually influential relationships with strategic external executive-level business decision makers and partners, leveraging targeted stakeholders at assigned customer.

**Sales Execution**
- Identifies gaps and solution opportunities for customers based on their needs and priorities.
- Owns work to open customer opportunities based on industry objectives, best practices, and new stakeholder relationships.
- Envisions product scenarios that do not currently exist to identify and open white spaces.
- Accelerates solution plays with an industry narrative by leveraging industry expertise and drives innovative, emerging net new opportunities based on industry trends.
- Creates and maintains an industry-focused vision with business and technology solution scenarios and services that helps large-scale, high-stakes customers achieve industry-relevant business outcomes, achieve their long-term corporate vision, and maximize commercial success.
- Recognized as a trusted advisor by the customer to shape, lead, and challenge senior strategic decision makers to take action and implement proposed solutions using a consultative selling approach, a compelling storyline and a strong financial business case (e.g., return on investment [ROI], other applicable metrics) rooted in the customer's industry.

**Collaboration and Partner Management**
- Leverages relationships with Business Strategy Leads (BSLs), Business Decision Makers (BDMs), and Partner Development Managers (PDMs) to plan, orchestrate, and execute on customer opportunities, identifying targeted partners (e.g., system integrators (SIs) and industry software vendors (ISVs)) to work directly with.

**Industry Expertise**
- Completes the required training and obtains relevant industry expertise and certifications pertinent to the role and the industry itself.
- Leads communication to provide feedback across the ecosystem (i.e., cross-pollinating information across teams/industries) to other teams (e.g., sales, marketing, engineering) on future product trends or sales blockers and to guide industry solutions team members in a variety of specialties.
- Serves as an industry thought leader in the field and provides depth and breadth of support across their respective sales organizations and teams.

**Qualifications**:
**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Financial Services (Insurance preferred, Banking, Capital Markets), Business or related field AND proven customer-facing experience in operations, enterprise-level improvement program management, product management, financial services (insurance preferred, banking, capital markets), management consulting, consultative selling, technology or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience

OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Financial Services (Insurance preferred, Banking, Capital Markets), Business or related field AND proven customer-facing experience in operations, enterprise-level improvement program management, product management, financial services (insurance preferred, banking, capital markets), management consulting, consultative selling, technology or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience

OR equivalent experience.
- Business level