Hybrid Work Lead

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The Manager, Global Black Belts-Hybrid Work Platform is a senior leader within our enterprise sales organization. This manager leads, develops and manages a team of high performing modern work black belt specialists to drive solution opportunity revenue and market share by leveraging the Microsoft Technologies to meet their customers data modernization and analytics solution needs.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

The Impact You’ll be Making - Manager, Global Black Belts-Hybrid Work Platform is responsible for:
Sales & Transformational Business Leadership:

• Bring Transformational Business Leadership that can help the Americas influence Modern Work business strategy, enhance our Modern Work Go-To-Market, identify and accelerate new sales motions, and coach our seasoned Global Black Belt sales organization
• Lead sellers to drive the Modern Work business to overachieve revenue and scorecard targets, with a focus on our Hybrid Work Strategy, Microsoft Teams, and supporting our Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) customer requirements with Microsoft 365.
• Develops their seller’s Solution Sales skills to sell the business outcomes of the broader Modern Work platform
• Drives new business opportunities to achieve targets contributing positively to relevant subsidiary scorecard metrics
• Even higher levels of operational excellence. Ensure appropriate 4 quarter qualified pipeline in place by workload/solution.
• Provide regional level performance insights, accelerators and blockers for MW local leadership
• Partner with regions to develop action plans and provide leadership to regions to implement plans
• Share performance insights, accelerators, blockers with engineering, product marketing and corp team through established channels
• Develop and manage capability development in partnership with engineering, corp team, and marketing team to scale the business

People Management:

• Develops a high-performing team by hiring diverse talent, prioritizing development, leading by example and by preparing people for more senior positions in other parts of the organization.
• Directly engage with strategic customers to bring the right solution to the customers
• Engage as key sponsor for strategic customers and partners (per agreement with local subsidiary) to nurture relationships and influence successful results
• Lead by example & champion strategic partners and MS services for co-selling
• Bring insights back on program landing for partners. Facilitate buildout of the partner ecosystem to scale the business
• Develop and proactively manage skills development across region to build regional capability in transformation and new workloads

Customer centricity:

• Lead from the front, personally engaging at CxO level to support and coach teams on opportunity discovery and acceleration
• Lead sellers to drive end-to-end business solutions, increasing customer and partner satisfaction and average deal sizes YoY.
• Lead cross-team to ensure customer intent to consume cloud services sold.

Partner Engagement:

• Bring together Microsoft solutions with Partner solutions, fully leverage the synergy effect with our partners, and co-sell with them to make deals bigger and faster.
• Directly engage with strategic customers to bring the right solution to the customers
• Engage as key sponsor for strategic customers and partners (per agreement with local subsidiary) to nurture relationships and influence successful results
• Lead by example & champion strategic partners and MS services for co-selling
• Bring insights back on program landing for partners. Facilitate buildout of the partner ecosystem to scale the business

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 6+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience directly managing a team
• 10+ years in sales for productivity solutions, voice, security, or similar applications and how to translate into business impact
• 10+ years of experience leading multi-million dollar deals requiring orchestration of large, dispersed, virtual teams composed of industry, solution, technical, licensing, and legal team members
• Knowledge of M365, Microsoft Security Solutions, Office 365 or competitive solutions

The salary range in the state of Colorado is $140,000 - $185,000

At Microsoft, certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role.

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