Consulting Account Executive

1 Month ago • 6-8 Years • Business Development • $106,100 PA - $203,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Consulting Account Executive (ConAE) drives and closes Azure, BizApps, Modern Work, Cybersecurity, and other solution area consulting opportunities within the Retail and Consumer Goods industry. Responsibilities include qualifying and closing deals, identifying key partners, engaging customers to introduce digital transformation solutions, collaborating with teams to discover opportunities, and driving revenue growth. The role requires identifying customer needs, proposing solutions, building stakeholder relationships, and implementing strategies for deal closure. The ConAE will also leverage Microsoft's sales process, collaborate with partners, and contribute to business planning and forecasting.
Must have:
  • 6+ years industry sales experience
  • 2+ years consulting solution sales experience
  • Qualify, sell, and close Retail & Consumer Goods opportunities
  • Collaborate with internal/external stakeholders
  • Understand customer's technical requirements
Good to have:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, IT, or related field
  • 3+ years consulting solution sales experience
Perks:
  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Opportunities to network and connect

Job Details

Overview

Microsoft Industry Solutions is a global organization hosting over 7,000 strategic sellers, industry and security experts, elite engineers, world-class data scientists and architects, consultants, and delivery specialists. Together with our partners, we help Microsoft’s most strategic customers worldwide to address their specific challenges and provide comprehensive and industry-specific solutions that meet their unique needs.

 

Our organization is at the forefront of innovation, driving value across the entirety of the customers’ digital and AI transformation journey through repeatable and customized cutting-edge solutions powered by Microsoft Cloud and AI.

 

We take pride in embodying Microsoft's mission of empowerment, promoting a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and fostering a culture of inclusivity where everyone is encouraged to share their unique perspectives and be their authentic selves. By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to life-changing innovations that impact billions of people worldwide.

 

Microsoft is strongly positioned to enable so much of what the Retail and Consumer Goods industry needs - now more than ever. The Industry Solutions sales team are looking for Consulting Account Executive (ConAE) with a passion for developing and winning market-making opportunities that deliver customer value and enable transformational business outcomes for our customers in the Retail and Consumer Goods Industry. 

 

The focus of the Consulting Account Executive, Retail and Consumer Goods, is to drive and close Azure, BizApps, Modern Work, Cyber Security and other Solution Area Consulting opportunities within the Retail and Consumer Goods Industry.

 

As an experienced consulting seller this role will give you the opportunity to accelerate your career growth, growing your solution area expertise, developing leads, qualification of strategic opportunities and ownership through to successful deal closure, leveraging cutting edge solutions for the biggest Retail and Consumer Goods customers that grow cloud consumption.

 

 

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.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • 6+ years industry sales experience in the commercial or public sector (e.g. Finance, Local Government)

o OR Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years industry sales experience in the commercial or public sector (e.g. Finance, Local Government) or related work

o OR equivalent experience.

  • 2+ years consulting solution sales experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 6+ years industry solution or consulting sales experience in the commercial or public sector (e.g. Financial Services, Local Government) or related work

o OR equivalent experience.

· 3+ years consulting solution sales experience.

 

Responsibilities

Sales Execution

  • Qualify, sell, and close Retail and Consumer Goods opportunities, using Services solutions assets and repeatable, packaged offerings wherever possible
  • Identify key industry-specific partners to enable solutions specific to Retail and Consumer Goods
  • Engages in conversations with customers aligned to their industry to introduce how other workloads could enable digital transformation areas that is aligned with the customer's industry and turns opportunities into deals. Initiates conversations with customers on digital transformation in one or more solution areas, in collaboration with partners and services. Creates guiding examples of digital transformation through seminars, workshops, webinars, and direct engagement.
  • Collaborates with team members to discover new opportunities. Drives incremental revenue growth through personal campaigns (e.g., portfolio analysis) or internal sources (e.g., Marketing). Collaborates with account teams, partners, or services to track and qualify new opportunities. Collaborates with other teams (e.g., account teams) and services to build pipeline. Interfaces with customers and builds relationships via social selling. Applies Microsoft's sales process (MSP) to determine the quality of the opportunity and whether to proceed.
  • Identifies opportunities to drive consumption and grow business with existing customers by initiating conversations, providing demos or quotes, and collaborating with partners or internal teams (e.g., Technical Sales Professionals, Global Black Belts. For licensing transactions and project engagements, ensures rapid and robust deployment plan at point of sale that is validated by services and partners.
  • Identifies customer business needs and technology readiness. Contributes to the development of solutions in collaboration with internal teams, partners, and services. Proposes prioritized solutions that align with customers' needs. Articulates the business value of proposed solutions.
  • Proactively builds external stakeholders' mapping. Collaborates with account teams (e.g., Account Executives) to identify and engage senior business subject matter decision makers at the customer's/partner's business.
  • Implements strategies to accelerate the closing of deals. Contributes input on strategies to drive and close prioritized opportunities. Coaches less experienced team members in deal plan execution. Implements close plans (e.g., how to map timeline, engage the customer, get customer buy-in and commitment) to de-risk and drive predictable deal closure.

Scaling and Collaboration

  • Applies the orchestration model to leverage and expand relationships with internal stakeholders and partners (e.g., Enterprise Operating Unit). Navigates the Microsoft organization to bring the best impact to the customer.

Sales and Technical Expertise

  • Has both sales and technical acumen in Microsoft technologies.
  • Understands customers fundamental technical requirements and articulates those to solution architects and to explain the Microsoft technical solution to the customer.
  • Initiates conversations with prospective customers/partners at events to expand external network.

Sales Excellence

  • Collaborates with partners and resources and leverages customer insights or industry knowledge. Contributes to exploring business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and support customer innovation.
  • Reviews feedback report and coaches others on ensuring customer/partner satisfaction and decreasing dissatisfaction by establishing recovery action plans to improve clients' overall experience. Manages and/or orchestrates sales and delivery success through the account team and pursuit team.
  • Engages with internal and external stakeholders on business planning, Rhythm of Business (ROB) meetings to review and plan for accounts in the assigned territory.
  • Collaborates with extended sales team, partners, and marketing to conduct business analysis (e.g., whitespace analysis, identify industry trends) to pursue high-potential customers and develop a target list of potential business.
  • Manages the end-to-end business of the assigned territory. Conducts forecasting for accounts and develops a portfolio and territory plan to drive intentional selling aligned with strategic priorities.
  • Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry.

 

Other

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Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

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