Sales Lead - Small and Medium Business (SMB) - Azure

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Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

The Small and Medium Business (SMB) segment at Microsoft is at the leading edge of our transformation. It is a tremendous growth engine for the company, driven by exponential growth in cloud as well as continued momentum in the traditional on-premises business. Dedicated to empowering every SMB worldwide to achieve more, this high performing segment delivers compelling Microsoft cloud solutions to millions of customers globally, growing revenue and market share while delivering a high level of customer and partner satisfaction.

We are looking for strengthening and complementing our team capabilities by bring strong talent with critical advanced experience covering core Azure workloads to accelerate our engagement with traditional German Mittelstand around optimizing and modernizing operations & infrastructures as well as step up deployment of data services / analytics solutions and thus enable the digital future of our small and medium customers.

Being successful in shaping the digital future of German Mittelstand is core pillar within the Microsoft Germany roadmap to market leadership. This role provides unique opportunity to play an active part in our legendary journey and bring to live the Microsoft cloud solutions to our customers and with our partners.

Responsibilities

The SMB Sales Lead achieves impact mainly through:

Growth and Transformational Sales Leadership: The role is directly accountable for SMB Azure business performance. As the leader of the Azure `One SMB’ v-team, the SMB Sales Lead – Azure is accountable for landing WW SMB strategy, identifying growth opportunities, prioritizing sales plays, developing the go-to-market execution plan, identifying channel capacity needs and securing necessary investments to ensure Microsoft realizes its full SMB Azure growth potential. The SMB operating model requires a high degree of collaboration across key business partners such Channel Partner, Product and Commercial Marketing, Inside Sales, Sales Excellence, Finance, etc. The SMB Sales Lead Azure is an effective and efficient collaborator and v-team leader able to drive alignment, execution, and results via extended v-teams.

Customer Advocacy and Market Thought Leadership: The individual should possess deep business insights into local SMB market dynamics, knowledge of political/legislative requirements, and demonstrate strategy leadership in the formulation of a robust business plan working in alignment with key SMB business partners to deliver short term results and build a foundation for long term sustained success. The SMB Sales Lead Azure is responsible for supplementing global data with local insights to optimize for customer lifetime value through acquisition, retention and growth strategies leveraging scalable routes to market. The individual should leverage their strong local SMB market insights on customer preferences, competitive dynamics, and digital maturity to execute relevant and timely global core sales plays while identifying local sales plays to optimize market demand.

The SMB Sales Lead is at the center of our transformation, where the focus is on innovating our go to market capability and capacity to best serve SMB customers at scale. This requires continuous innovation and evolution of our sales engagement strategy, while remaining centered on the SMB customer.

As the SMB Sales Lead Azure, you will be the business owner of Microsoft’s SMB Azure business for traditional Mittelstand customers and the SMB customer advocate across the organization. You will mainly influence the business success through effective cross-group collaboration but are as well involved in large strategic Azure deals as Deal Coach (traditional Mittelstand customers scope).

To be successful, you must have deep understanding and appreciation of the diversity (size, ownership, culture) and complexity of the traditional Small and Medium Business market and its needs considering modernization and readiness for the future; customer acquisition engines and upsell/cross-sell motions across services/products and the respective routes to market. You will act as the leader of a v-team of key business partners from the partner, products and services, marketing, and operations teams, driving alignment on the SMB Azure (traditional Mittelstand) strategy through the development of a holistic SMB Azure business plan, and ensure always on execution with the right level of investments to address SMB customer needs and accelerate their digital transformation.

The SMB Sales – Azure professional key outcomes / measures of success include:

• SMB Azure consumed revenue and cloud mix
• SMB Azure new cloud customer acquisition and growth
• SMB net satisfaction
  

SMB Azure new cloud customer

Qualifications

The successful candidate is an experienced sales and marketing leader with deep SMB customer insights and understanding, a track record of business strategy development and execution, sales leadership, and hands-on execution excellence. Specifically, this highly visible and strategic role requires a candidate who possesses the following characteristics:

• Ability to set and drive customer strategy, thus translating strategy into concrete actions and marketing/sales motions
• Excellent business judgment and results across a range of disciplines including multi-channel sales, marketing, finance, and strategy
• Ability to effectively drive cross-group collaboration, using project management, impact, and influence, as well as communication skills.
• Strong analytical mindset, but creative in problem solving and entrepreneurial in approach. Effective at managing and thriving in ambiguous situations.
• Understanding and knowledge of the intelligent cloud landscape and solutions incl. technical acumen
  

Additional Requirements For This Role Include

• Solid experience within the technology sector & tech savvy
• Successful in developing market and sales strategy in the field of intelligent cloud solutions as well as translating strategy into action and achieving ambition
• Digital transformation management consulting experience / experience in enabling implementation of transformation projects solutions applicable for the German Mittelstand customers
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Engineering
  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

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