Microsoft Sales Excellence Leader

Job Details

Posted date: Nov 11, 2024

Category: Sales Enablement

Location: Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations

Estimated salary: $226,950
Range: $154,500 - $299,400

Employment type: Full-Time

Travel amount: 50.0%

Work location type: Up to 100% work from home

Role: People Manager


Description

Are you an experienced business professional who wants to enable our regional sales centers to execute against sales priorities and exceed sales targets? If so, then Microsoft's Small, Medium, Corporate (SMC) & Digital Sales Team is looking for you!

Be a part of a multi-generational, diverse and customer-obsessed team that demands excellence. Develop and apply your skills alongside the leading technology, marketing and sales experts in a dynamic, fast-paced sales environment. And most importantly, achieve your personal goals and advance your career whether you are looking to build on your sales and consulting experience or exploring how to leverage your experience to dive into modern cloud.

The Sales Excellence Leader for SMC & Digital Sales is a strategic role that enables and drives consistent Sales Excellence practices throughout the SMC Americas sales business to achieve sales objectives. The successful candidate will gain a deep understanding of the SMC and Digital Sales operating model, digital culture, and be part of a dynamic, fast-paced and quickly evolving sales organization. This position is a strategic contributor operationalizing strategy, driving growth, increasing seller productivity and driving cultural transformation.

This role will partner with the SMC Sales Directors and management team and will interface with a broad network of sales management and other key stakeholders supporting the Americas business. This person will also work closely with Sales Excellence peers supporting Asia, EMEA and GPS.

Microsoft is empowering every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more. We have set three bold ambitions for ourselves: create more personal computing, reinvent productivity and business processes, and build the intelligent cloud. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. We were recently recognized as a most attractive global employer and have been and continue to be known for our exceptional citizenship and community efforts. We have offices and career opportunities in all 50 U.S. states and 250+ countries around the world.

People Management

Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.Transformational Leader

Partner with sales leaders and stakeholders to increase selling time, remove roadblocks and increase seller capability and effectiveness Role model the internal transformation from an inspection to coaching culture. Leading sales managers to become more effective coaches to their sellers resulting in increased individual and team capability, employee satisfaction and collaborative selling effortsPartner to the Small, Medium & Corporate Sales Lead the Business

Establish and drive a well-defined, predictable rhythm of the business (RoB), that enforces great discipline in sales and consumption processes and delivers over-achievement of business results through leveraging the key SMC engines & resourcesLeverage business insights to benchmark performance and define current and future actions needed to address key challenges. Drive the v-teams spanning across roles, SMC engines, resources and Subsidiaries executing on the defined actions.Sales Leader Coaching for Growth

Coach and advise on sales motions/strategies for up-sell and co-sell driving Digital Transformation at our existing and new Customers. Drive awareness to product/solution mix needed to meet targetsObtain first-hand insights on Customer/Partner issues and aspirations through targeted engagements Driver of Sales Process Discipline

Instilling sales process discipline, adherence to standards, and excellence in execution while holding sales managers accountable to quality and accuracy

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

10+ years experience with active participation in sales, sales operations/management, account management, program management, business development, marketing, consulting, or a related fieldOR equivalent experience.5+ years of experience using data to drive business outcomes or inform business decisions.7+ years of experience managing relationships with stakeholders, clients, and/or customers.5+ years people management experience.

Sales Excellence M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $154,500 - $273,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $199,600 - $299,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 25, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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