Account Executive at Microsoft

Job Number: 741728
Location: Lagos
Profession: Sales
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel: 25-50 %

Job Description

• The Account Executive at Microsoft leads our most valued customers into the digital age. Embracing a challenger mindset, the successful Account Executive manages, orchestrates and leads their virtual teams and closes opportunities with customers that produce transformative business outcomes.

Responsibilities
The Account Executive will be responsible for the following:

• Business Relationship Owner: Build coalition of support (IT and business) with customer. Define specific business outcomes.
• Team Mobilizer and Orchestrator: Mobilize the entire account team and direct clear opportunity ownership in strong collaboration with partners.
• Digital Transformation Leader and Operational Excellence: Lead, drive and manage opportunities for each of the 4 Digital Transformation pillars and 4 Solution Areas. Consistent, repeatable achievement of revenue and consumption targets.

Education, Key Experiences, Skills and Knowledge

• 5+ years of consultative selling & technical selling to or consulting with enterprise customers. Equally considered will be 5+ years of experience driving digital transformation from within the enterprise customers
• 10 years relevant experience
• Digital transformation - 5 years
• Has managed large quota and has experience in managing government accounts
• Bachelor’s degree or MBA preferred; or equivalent experience
• Experience to lead multi-cultural, diverse and remote teams across different disciplines
• Proven ability to understand customer needs, create and deliver customized, customer-focused pitches and solutions
• Effectively navigate through ambiguity and complexities related to client management
• Embody “we-before-me” mindset
• Solid knowledge of one industry required (i.e. Government, Education, Healthcare, Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Automotive, Telco, Media, Oil/Gas/Energy, etc.)

Benefits and Perks
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work:

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away.