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Inside Sales Account Executive - Microsoft

Employer
Undisclosed Company
Location
Dublin
Salary
bonus & benefits
Closing date
23 Oct 2017
Due to business growth, Microsoft is expanding their cloud offering by establishing a new sales model leveraging modern technology and big data and analytics to drive impactful demand response and targeted sales coverage.

The role of Account Executive will be at the forefront of the transition to a mobile-first and cloud-first organization.

This role is dedicated to increasing revenue and improving customer satisfaction through senior account management working in tandem with partners within a territory of accounts.

The Account Executive adds value by developing and maintaining strong customer relationships that include building relationships with executives at the Chief-level (CxO) as well as other Business and Technical Decision Makers within the customers' organisations. This role is unique in its ability to effectively leverage technology and extensive members of the virtual sales team to build strong relationships with the accounts in its portfolio. It is also unique in its ability to work directly with and through partners to meet customer needs.

Key Responsibilities:

* Strong, deep and broad customer and partner relationships: Develop an account strategy and customer contact plan for owned accounts that includes line-of-business contacts and executive-level relationships.
* Effective and actionable account and territory plans: Lead territory and account planning process that aligns partner and resources to maximise revenue, customer satisfaction, and grow share.
* Healthy predictable pipeline that meets or exceeds quota expectations: Prospect and identify opportunities and coach the virtual sales team on how to maximise opportunity generation. Qualify opportunities and convert them to a customer solution based scenario. Prepare monthly forecasts and pipeline reports, using Microsoft's tools and resources.
* Through-partner wins that displace the competition: Effectively leverage funding programs to accelerate and close deals. Maximise up-sell and cross-sell deals collaborating with the virtual sales and partner team (based on availability) to present customers the 'cloud' value proposition, for competitive advantage and new solutions, which aligns to the customer's business objectives and IT initiatives.
* Joint Account Executive and Partner Sales Executive account team leadership: Collaborate and orchestrate collaborative resources at the right time and level by leveraging a deep understanding of individual account team member strengths, perspectives, and goals.
* Continuous business learning and professional growth: Develop a working knowledge of the business' transformation, establish peer to peer and mentoring, and leverage all training resources.

Requirements:

* 4-year degree preferred.
* 2-6+ years of technology related sales or business development experience
* Demonstrated ability to consistently exceed quota by driving deals within a Partner ecosystem.
* Demonstrated understanding of solution selling techniques and selling cloud based solutions.
* Experienced in building strong, collaborative customer relationships with line-of-business and technical roles.
* Can navigate a customer through sales negotiations and/or technical presentations via the telephone.
* Solid knowledge of the business, customers, partners, business strategy and how they work together.
* Able to qualify sales opportunities and position partners in the overall sales process.
* Demonstrated business communication and written skills in the local language.
* Has passionate attitude for sales and technology as an enabler for a company's growth.
* Complex sales training (e.g., Miller Hyman, Spin, Michael Bosworth, Challenger, Holden, Krauthammer, etc.), extensive presentation skills, effective marketing tactics, negotiation, financial analysis, Line of Business applications sales experience, business process consulting or automation, CRM, Employee Performance Management (systems and processes).

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