AI Business Process Solution Sales Professional

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be, and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and sky's-the-limit thinking - a cloud-enabled world.

At Microsoft we have unique capabilities to meet the needs of both individuals and organizations. We care deeply about taking our ideals and vision around the globe, and to make a difference in peoples' lives and organizations in all corners of the planet. Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet.

Are you insatiably curious? Do you embrace uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from your mistakes? Do you collaborate well with others, knowing that better solutions come from working together? Do you stand in awe of what humans dare to achieve, and are you motivated every day to empower others to achieve more through technology and innovation? Are you ready to join the team that is at the leading edge of Innovation at Microsoft?

The reinvention of business processes is a growth engine for Microsoft cloud services. The mission of Microsoft AI Business Solutions is to help our customers with their AI-powered transformation journeys and digitally transform their businesses to drive new sources of revenue, create new and engaging ways to serve their customers, and to transform the way in which their business runs driving new levels of profitability for their organization.

Are you ready to join a double-digit growth cloud business? Microsoft AI Business Solutions (SaaS) cloud is recognized by analysts as a leader in the CRM, ERP, Application and Automation Cloud platform space. Trusted by global businesses as their platform of choice, Microsoft AI Business Process solutions uniquely enables customers to optimize their operations, engage their customers, empower their people and transform their products.

As an AI Business Process Solution Sales Professional (ABS SSP) – you will be an account/industry-aligned, outcome-driven business process transformation enabler within the Microsoft specialist sales organization working with our most important enterprise customers helping them with their end-to-end business transformation needs by envisioning solutions and mapping capabilities with associated business value to business decision maker persona needs. You will execute with excellence the entire sales process by owning and orchestrating a virtual pursuit team of technically intense solution experts including presales, partners, and Independent Software Vendors to provide customers with solutions aligned to their end-to-end business transformation needs using Microsoft ABS' portfolio of offerings. You will use the Microsoft Catalyst Sales Methodology to enable customers' digital transformation journey focusing on the business value and outcomes from Microsoft Business Application solutions.

Responsibilities
The ABS SSPan accomplished and experienced solution seller with a proventrack recordof driving BusinessProcess-led (Customer Experience-, ERP- , Low Code Application Development and ProcessAutomation solutions) complex digital transformations in large global enterprise accounts with experience running multi-million-dollar pursuits.

• Build Pipe in alignment with Account Teams & Cross-Solution Areas – Build pipe by leading with industry, using digital signals & insights to prospect, network, identify, engage & nurture with right BDMs, align & gain account team commitment, plug into cross solution sales motions.
• Envision Industry-aligned Customer-Centric Solutions with Business Value Insights – Discover and envision industry-based solutions with business value insights working with a pursuit team of technically intense workload experts and partners resources to quantify and qualify end-to-end connected solution use cases expanding opportunity value across line of business BDMs.
• Engage with Partners – Leverage and scale through early alignment with priority co-sell partners, ISVs and/or SIs.
• Develop Close Plan & Secure Customer Agreement to Envisioned Solution – Gain customer agreement by successfully presenting the business case for change, aligning business pains with envisioned solution and associated business value.
• Orchestrate Solution Design & Calculate/Present Business value – Orchestrate, bringing clarity to pursuit team to ensure designed solution maps to envisioned solution and business value. Ensure design has an end-to-end view, building opportunities for future expansion of interconnected business processes after initial sale.
• Negotiate with Proposals Mapped to Business Outcomes – Create compelling board-level presentations with proposals aligned to customer transformation plan mapped to business value and business outcomes. Deal crafting and negotiating using Give Gets/Balance of Trade and other resources. Engage Microsoft executives when required to expedite close and resolve stalemate/inaction.
• Commitment for Customer Success – Throughout the sales process and after sales closure ensure successful handoff to customer success teams with a clearly documented deployment plan.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Several years of experience with selling CRM, CX; ERP, Low Code or similar cloud-based business applications to Enterprise Accounts (ideally in the Energy and/or Chemical Industry) AND proven ability to sell solutions with connected end-to-end business transformation across business units within Enterprise Accounts.
• Proven ability to develop demand and pipe by building BDM networking, assessing strategic customer objectives, digital transformation opportunity discovery, key improvement scenarios and an ability to measure and present incremental and new economic value from solutions proposed AND experience in deal crafting, negotiating terms and contracts for multimillion-dollar digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience in orchestrating sales processes across account planning, opportunity planning, deal negotiation, customer decision frameworks, evaluation plans and engaging in sophisticated business case discussions.
• Proficiency in English (Level C2 or higher) AND German (Level B2 or higher).

Additional Qualifications

• Deep Understanding of: Business solutions, specifically CRM, CX, ERP or Low Code applications including one or more of: Marketing Automation, Sales Automation, Relationship Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Commerce, RPA and how they translate into business impact.
• Broad understanding of commercial cloud offerings, ideally including Microsoft's cloud platform, as well as competitors and related ecosystems.
• Strong presentation, white-boarding and communication skils
• Passion and commitment for customer success
• Ability to maintain a high level of productivity, manage multiple competing priorities and work effectively under the pressure of time constraints in a fast-paced, complex, collaborative and team-oriented environment.
• Organizational agility, able to coordinate stakeholders like Marketing, Engineering, Licensing, Legal, Executives etc.
• Problem solver and ability to work in rapidly changing environment effectively managing ambiguity.
• Disciplined operator with demonstrated accuracy in forecasting business and maintaining pipeline hygiene.
• Strong track record and history of carrying and exceeding an enterprise account sales quota.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required.

In line with our Flexible Work approach, for roles at Microsoft Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, we recommend spending at least two days per week in the office or at the customer site.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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