Microsoft Nigeria Sales Specialist (Business Applications) Jobs

Microsoft Nigeria Sales Specialist (Business Applications) Jobs


What Joining the Microsoft Team Means

  • Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be, and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else.

  • This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and sky's-the-limit thinking -- a cloud-enabled world.

  • At Microsoft we have unique capabilities to meet the needs of both individuals and organizations.

  • We care deeply about taking our ideals and vision around the globe, and to make a difference in peoples' lives and organizations in all corners of the planet.

  • Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet.
    Are you insatiably curious? Do you embrace uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from your mistakes? Do you collaborate well with others, knowing that better solutions come from working together? Do you stand in awe of what humans dare to achieve, and are you motivated every day to empower others to achieve more through technology and innovation? Are you ready to join the team that is at the leading edge of Innovation at Microsoft?

  • The reinvention of business processes is a growth engine for Microsoft cloud services.

  • 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 driving new levels of profitability for their organization.

    Responsibilities

  • The Business Applications Sales Specialist is an accomplished and experienced solution seller with a proven track record of driving Business Application-led (ERP/CRM solutions) complex digital transformation in large enterprise accounts with experience running multi-million-dollar pursuits.

  • To excel in the Business Applications Sales Specialist role, you must have the following traits and abilities:

  • Business Process Transformation Expert - Has deep understanding of challenges and opportunities in an industry and can envision solutions mapped with business value to address customer persona business needs and pains.

  • Expert Business Decision Maker Conversationalist, Digital First Seller - Identifies the right BDMs and builds relationships using social selling best practices, leverages other organizations in Microsoft and their relationships.

  • Expertise in Industry and solutions with connected use cases to achieve trusted advisor role with BDMs & customer personas.

  • World Class Orchestrator- Complex, multi-thread Project Manager, influences for impact, leads, manages & drives shared vision and execution across virtual teams and partners.

  • Industry-based Solutioning Expert - Expert in an industry and has knowledge and skills to envision solutions solving BDM persona pains with connected use cases.

  • Business Outcome Seller- Expert ability to quantify business value for solution capabilities addressing customer persona needs/pains.

  • Expert in Differentiating Solution Offering- Expert understanding and positioning of proposed solution(s) against competition, macro-level thinker that can articulate and present the power of the Microsoft Cloud and differentiated benefits for customer.

    Job Responsibilities

  • Build Pipe in alignment with Account Teams & Cross-Solution Areas- Build pipe by leading with industry, using digital signals & insights to prospect, network, identify, engage
    & nurture with right BDMs, align & gain account team commitment, plug into cross solution sales motions.

  • Envision Industry-aligned Customer-Centric Solutions with Business Value Insights- Discover and envision industry-based solutions with business value insights working with a pursuit team of technically intense workload experts and partners resources to quantify and qualify end-to-end connected solution use cases expanding opportunity value across line of business BDMs.

  • Engage with Partner(s)- Leverage and scale through aligning early with priority co-sell partners and ISVs.

  • Develop Close Plan & Secure Customer Agreement to Envisioned Solution- Gain customer agreement by successfully presenting the business case for change, aligning business pains with envisioned solution and associated business value.

    Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required.

  • 3 to 5 years of experience:

  • Experience with selling CRM/ERP or similar software-as-a-service, cloud-based business applications to large enterprise accounts exceeding sales targets.

  • Consultative sales experience

  • C-level engagement and ability to understand business

  • Strong stakeholder and relationship management experience

  • Developing demand and pipe by building BDM networking, assessing strategic customer objectives, digital transformation opportunity discovery, key improvement scenarios and an ability to measure and present incremental and new economic value from solutions proposed.

  • Ability to sell solutions with connected end-to-end business transformation across business units within enterprise accounts.

  • Leading/orchestrating sales processes across account planning, opportunity planning, deal negotiation, customer decision frameworks, evaluation plans and engaging in sophisticated business case discussions.

  • Deal crafting, negotiating terms and contracts for multimillion-dollar digital transformation initiatives.

  • Disciplined operator with demonstrated accuracy in forecasting business and maintaining pipeline hygiene.

  • Strong track record and history of carrying and exceeding an enterprise account sales quota

    Desired Skills:

  • Design Thinking and Solution Envisioning
    Strong presentation, white-boarding and communication

  • Passion and commitment for customer success

  • Ability to maintain a high level of productivity, manage multiple competing priorities and work effectively under the pressure of time constraints in a fast-paced, complex, collaborative and team-oriented environment.

  • Organizational agility, able to coordinate stakeholders like Marketing, Engineering, Licensing, Legal, Executives etc.

  • Problem solver and ability to work in rapidly changing environment effectively managing ambiguity.

    How to Apply

  • For more information and job application details, see; Microsoft Nigeria Sales Specialist (Business Applications) Jobs



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