Business Applications Business Architect Come join the team designing the future of Microsoft's Business Applications GTM! Microsoft's Business Applications offerings compete in an $82B SaaS market. Our Customer Engagement and Operations offerings include key workloads for Sales, Customer Service and Support, Finance, Operations, Marketing, Talent and our Intelligence and Application platform. As Amy Hood referenced in Microsoft's Q2 financial results, our D365 Cloud products are growing 67% YoY! Now is the time to join this business and help accelerate our growth and share. The Business Architect role sits within the Business Applications Sales Strategy team in the Worldwide Commercial Business organization, and is responsible for designing the sales levers across customer segmentation, specialist sales role design, specialist sales resource allocation, compensation design, sales play prioritization and overall sales model. In addition, this role will focus on Microsoft's Enterprise and
This role will drive the annual planning process for the Business Applications Enterprise segment and then monitor performance to identify what parts of the sales model work well and should be expanded as well as where opportunities exist and should be adjusted. It will require close partnership with other corporate teams in product marketing, engineering and M and O to understand roadmaps and ensure we stay ahead of competition. Finally, it will be critical for this role to have first-hand experience on the voice of the customer. This role will be expected to engage with customers and partners
We are looking for candidates with the following experience: 8-10 years of work experience in the IT market; special focus will be placed on candidates with strong experience in SaaS and business application SaaS 2-5 years of management consulting experience in IT, especially from Tier 1 firms Experience with sales model design or sales operations (e.g., sales process, headcount / blueprint design, compensation levers, etc.) Experience working directly with senior sales executives and Field sales teams Experience building forward-looking performance indicators that help anticipate issues A track