Azure Infrastructure Sales Specialist- Financial

Our team of Azure Specialists is a high performing group committed to supporting the success of the Financial Services Sector in Canada through cloud adoption and industry specific solutions. We are part of Microsoft’s Commercial Solution Area (CSA), which sets the sales strategy, leads technical sales, and operates as a hub for the Commercial Solution Areas and Support Services that power the Microsoft Cloud. We work closely with other Microsoft teams and partners, especially Account Teams, Customer Success, Marketing, and other solution areas, to ensure we are driving meet and exceed our customers’ needs.

As an Azure Infrastructure Sales Specialist
- Financial Services, you are a senior business leader with technical expertise within our enterprise sales organization, working with some of our most important customers in the Financial Services Sector in Canada. You will lead a virtual team of sales, technical, and services resources to help customers realize the digital transformation through cloud computing. You are a self-starter, approaching your work with a high sense of urgency and focus to drive customer value and create opportunities for you and your team to succeed. You will develop and maintain technical Azure migration and modernization expertise, able to identify projects, build a compelling business case, and drive the consumption project to production. You will build and maintain relationships with customers, influence long-term strategic direction and act as a trusted advisor driving engagement at the CXO level with business and technology decision makers.

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**Responsibilities**:
**Sales Execution**
- Brings impactful industry insights into customer engagements and closes deals with customers. Acts as a thought leader across solution areas to advise customers across business functions on digital transformation. Leads virtual transformational shifts to drive deployment and create business value for customers. May lead partner integration into account/territory planning and customer engagements. Provides thought leadership.
- Orchestrates with team members on conducting personal campaigns to discover new opportunities and generate new leads. Leads conversations with strategic/high-potential customers (e.g., high budget, global account, highly competitive) along with account teams or partners. Facilitates the account team unit (ATU) and/or Specialist Team Unit (STU) to build pipeline in collaboration with partners and services. Guides others on social selling. Applies Microsoft's sales process to determine the quality of the opportunity and whether to proceed, and educate the customers on how to best address their needs.

**Scaling and Collaboration**
- Leads the planning and execution on opportunities with resources and partners to cross-sell and up-sell. Identifies, leverages, and coordinates partners and resources across solution areas. Validates partner solution relevance for customers. Provides input and feedback to Global Partner Solutions (GPS) on developing partner strategies and connects the partner ecosystems to scale business results.
- Leads the sales orchestration with internal stakeholders and partners (e.g., Enterprise Operating Unit). Applies a holistic approach to build network across territories. Positions opportunities to promote collaboration and participation.

**Technical Knowledge**
- Leads conversations and sets up events within Microsoft. Mentors others and develops strategies for best practice sharing across subsidiaries. Contributes ideas that can be instituted across Microsoft.
- Posts information or speaks at external events, drives conversations with prospective customers/partners as a thought leader across solution areas.

**Sales Excellence**
- Drive Sales Excellence: Exceed sales / cloud consumption quota by driving pipeline management and accurate forecasting.

**Qualifications**:
**Required/Minimum Qualifications**
- 7+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 6+ years technology-related sales or account management experience.
- An understanding and experience with consumption business selling with infrastructure cloud

**Additional or Preferred Qualifications**
- 9+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
- o OR Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technolo