Account Executive

Microsoft's enterprise account teams focus on empowering customers on their digital journey. This team is responsible for envisioning new possibilities with late stage, born in cloud, digital customers, helping them deliver solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and driving revenue growth for Microsoft.

As an Account Executive - Digital Unicorns, you will have the opportunity to drive digital technology transformation in partnership with strategic customers across various industries to achieve both Microsoft and customer business outcomes. Leveraging your v-team of deep technical expertise across the breadth of the Microsoft solutions portfolio, you will engage at the most senior levels of your customer and bring insight to help the customer adopt and embrace digital technologies while expanding on their go to market strategy.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years experience working in an industry (e.g., Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Energy, Government, Education) and/or driving digital transformation
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Technology, or related field AND 3+ years experience working in a relevant industry (e.g., Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Energy, Government, Education) and/or driving digital transformation
  • OR Master's Degree in Business Administration AND 2+ years experience working in an industry (e.g., Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Energy, Government, Education) and/or driving digital transformation.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years experience working in an industry (e.g., Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Energy, Government, Education), driving digital transformation, or other relevant work experience (e.g., consulting, technology)
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Technology, or related field AND 6+ years experience working in an industry (e.g., Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Energy, Government, Education), driving digital transformation, or other relevant work experience (e.g., consulting, technology)
  • OR Master's Degree in Business Administration AND 4+ years experience working in an industry (e.g., Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Energy, Government, Education), driving digital transformation, or other relevant work experience (e.g., consulting, technology).
• 3+ years account management experience OR equivalent.

Account Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $100,900 - CAD $165,000 per year.

Find additional pay information here: Canada pay information | Microsoft Careers

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 30, 2024.

• Builds and maintains relationships with executives and business and technical decision makers at high levels of the customer's organization through consultative engagement to establish Rhythm of Business (RoB) with customer sponsors to highlight the value of the Microsoft solutions and subsequent Return on Investment (ROI).
• Seeks to deepen relationship with customers during interactions by being customer-focused and consistently honoring commitments and connecting the customer to Microsoft executives, and partners with them to foster trust and brand growth and loyalty through multiple levels (e.g., managers, executives) of the customer's organization in the assigned accounts. Assists partners in joint-selling by establishing joint desire to create new go-to markets by starting to build relationships in new markets (e.g., Vice President). Leverages digital selling methods (e.g., digital) to grow your network and create a pipeline, consume account-based marketing outputs, and reflect in the engagement strategy in our customer plan.
• Proactively develops a comprehensive understanding of the customer's business and technology needs and priorities for each assigned account. Identifies opportunities to drive optimizations and new business and technology solutions based on customer's strategies. Presents solutions and ideas based on customer insights. Advocates on behalf of the customer internally, ensuring requests and needs of assigned accounts are being addressed. If industry aligned, also develops a comprehensive understanding of the customer's industry.
• Understands customer drivers of business transformation and leads new opportunities and orchestrates internal teams to accelerate the customer's digital transformation. Engages with customers to lead strategic technology direction/transformation within assigned accounts customer. Proactively mitigate competitive risk. Mitigate competitive risk. Ensures line-of-business wins are captured (e.g., testimonials) for referencing through insightful listening.

• Develops and oversees the execution of account plans utilizing common sales and delivery methodology for the Microsoft sales organization for multiple accounts to ensure Microsoft revenue targets and customer business needs are met. Drives accountability to deliver on account plans among the extended virtual teams and internal industry experts. Leads extended team and embraces partners to scale business by understanding partner goals and creating an interest in mutual business growth. Ensures achievement of revenue and consumption targets and drives integrated joint account governance through customer plan on regular frequency. Identifies initial stakeholders, customer needs, and customer priorities. Proposes initial Solutions/Sales Plays.
• Thinks strategically about customer planning for assigned accounts, setting standards and priorities, outlining where to and how to invest resources of the account management team and other stakeholders, engaging internal and external decision makers on long-term business planning, and anticipating needs of assigned accounts to turn enterprise accounts into strategic accounts. Influences to scale strategic plans (inclusive of partners) and involves senior leadership team. Ensures teams are documenting in the Account Plan.

• Educates decision makers of assigned accounts on Microsoft's value proposition aligned to customer's business objectives. Establishes the competitive advantage. Develops plans to offer solutions that satisfy customers' key performance indicators (KPIs) and align the right partner solution for customer industry needs.
• Develops value-proposition presentations and specialized business plans for customers that drive business outcomes to generate business and upsells. Presents business plans to customers to generate new non-qualified opportunities.
• Implements strategies to engage relevant stakeholders of assigned accounts and create and/or identify upselling/cross-selling non-qualified opportunities and drive consumption of Microsoft solutions while utilizing common sales and delivery methodology for the Microsoft sales organization.

• Proactively builds and maintains knowledge of Microsoft's product landscape, solutions, and strategy in the industry of assigned accounts, as well as of the business priorities and potential threats the customers face. Coordinates with internal industry experts (e.g., industry teams, industry specific partners) to gather industry data of assigned accounts and improve planning. Demonstrates an understanding of the customers' business strategy and the direction of the industry.

• Embody our culture and values