Technical Specialist

2 weeks ago

Calgary, Alberta, Canada Microsoft Corporation Full time
Technical Specialist - Sales & Marketing

Date posted

Job number: 1793353

Work site: Up to 50% work from home

Travel: 0-25 %

Role type: Profession

Technology Sales

Employment type: Full-Time

Overview

The mission of Microsoft Business Applications is to help our customers 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 to drive new levels of profitability for their organization.

In this role, you will be the Technical Specialist and a member of the sales team that consists of Solution Specialists, Customer Success Unit, partners, and engineering. You will advance pipeline by assisting the Solution Specialist in qualifying the deal, developing the strategy, and inspiring the CxO/Business Decision Maker/Technical Decision Maker. You are responsible for designing the solution and delivering an industry-aligned demonstration to the customer. You will engage partners for co-sell and implementation considerations, engineering to assist with emerging technologies, and Customer Success Unit for deal support. The demo will focus on solving the technical proof requirements while highlighting our business value and competitive differentiators and should result in securing the customer's solution design endorsement. Once the solution design is secured, you will support the Solution Specialist in finalizing the customer proposal and assisting with licensing.

You will develop relationships with the decision makers with our customers and position yourself as a trusted advisor in your domain. As a recognized product expert, you are responsible for sharing your technical, industry knowledge and best practices with your peers. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

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

- 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

- 8+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience

- 6+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on-premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.

- Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture).

- 7+ years of related experience in solution pre-sales for business applications and/or SaaS-based company or similar technology with a focus on Customer Engagement/Sales and Marketing.

- Solution pre-sales best practices including but not limited to; discovery, building and crafting solution strategies that differentiate from the competition, value-based selling, identifying, and expanding product opportunities.

- Product knowledge and technical background in Sales and Marketing business processes (Dynamics 365 or equivalent products in the market).

- Ability to drive and influence stakeholders across organizational boundaries through organizational, presentation, envisioning, writing, and verbal communication skills.

- Customer-facing business processes in one or more industries such as Manufacturing, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Retail & Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Public Sector, and Media & Communications.

Responsibilities

The following are the primary responsibilities of the Technical Specialist- Sales & Marketing:

- Advance qualified pipeline revenue by demonstrating solution capabilities, addressing technical proof requirements, and securing the customer's solution design endorsement.

- Engage with the account team to land solution envisioning sessions and business value assessments.

- Proactively deliver compelling customer-centric solution demonstrations based on technical workload expertise while building Business Decision Maker/CxO/Technical Decision Maker connections.

- Address solution architecture considerations and competitive objection handling.

- Assist in formalizing the customer proposal.

- Collaborate with Partners and Customer Success to align on agreed-upon deployment plan and Key Performance Indicators.

- Lead discovery sessions in each opportunity, yielding output of customer-agreed business challenges and win themes prioritized with business value.

Benefits:

- 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

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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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