Job Openings at Microsoft Nigeria

Detailed Description

• Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. 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.
• Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.
• 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?
• As a Specialist, you will be a senior solution sales leader within our enterprise sales organization working with our most important customers. You will lead a virtual team of technical, partner and consulting resources to advance the sales process and achieve/exceed solution sales and usage/consumption targets for related workloads in your assigned accounts. You will help customers evaluate their applications, recommend solutions that meet their requirements, remove roadblocks to deployment and drive customer satisfaction.
• The reinvention of business process represents a bold bet for Microsoft in accelerating our growth in commercial cloud services. The mission of Dynamics 365 is to help our customer 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 to drive new levels of profitability for their organization.
• The Dynamics 365 Specialist is an accomplished sales leader with a proven track record of driving complex digital transformation using Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions in large enterprise accounts that have the highest potential and strategic value. The Dynamics 365 Specialist leverages advanced business transformation skills honed at management consultancies and their extensive network of C-level customer and industry relationships to consistently exceed quota with multimillion-dollar wins. The Dynamics 365 Specialist uses their leadership status in industry, professional groups, LinkedIn network, and extended team to create shared visions, influence key stakeholders and lead virtual teams to drive transformation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain customer account plans for all the accounts in your designated territory which includes white space analysis, current customer solution and technology footprint/landscape, customer pains, competitive landscape, and industry trends.
• Develop deep trusted adviser relationships with Business Decision Makers by actively understanding customer business pains, requirements, strategic growth objectives, industry trends and providing business-value-outcome-based solutions
• Develop, maintain, and document comprehensive business plans resulting from joint customer planning and discovery workshops which address customer strategic priorities for digital transformation
• Discover, assess, evaluate, and challenge strategic customer objectives by translating them into digital transformation opportunities that leverage Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CRM) and Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (ERP)
• Create and drive demand for qualified digital transformation opportunities in our enterprise accounts that can benefit from running their business on Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CRM) and Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (ERP)
• Address key change scenarios with quantifiable business value outcomes and justification
• Develop and lead account strategy in the sophisticated and complex business environments of our enterprise accounts
• Be a disciplined operator by maintaining a rolling pipeline, keeping it current and in accurate stages. Leverage marketing, inside sales, partners and your relationship network to build pipeline
• Support and leverage all sales promotions, sales events and sales strategies to close opportunities
• Develop, drive, manage and lead a discipled opportunity execution plan with a diverse pursuit team of experts, SMEs, pre-sales resources and partners geographically dispersed and virtual both internal and external to Microsoft including our Global Systems Integrator partners
• Create compelling business value outcome backed proposals, negotiate terms and contracts with successful close.
• Own and deliver on revenue targets for Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement and Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations for your territory/accounts.

Qualifications

• Solution sales for CRM and ERP or similar business applications
• Selling software-as-a-service or cloud-based CRM and ERP business applications to enterprise customers.
• Digital transformation management consulting experience with leading international firms
• Developing demand for multimillion-dollar digital transformation opportunities in Large enterprise accounts
• Developing and leading account strategy and opportunity execution plans in complex business environments in large enterprise account targets
• Driving and leading sales processes across account planning, opportunity planning, deal negotiation, customer decision frameworks, evaluation plans and engaging in sophisticated business case discussions.
• Carrying and exceeding sales quotas by driving and closing enterprise deals
• Proposal preparation, negotiating terms and contracts for large multi-million-dollar digital transformation opportunities
• Senior level pursuit leadership varied experience in selling CRM business applications with a strong track record of new account development, territory building and quota performance
• Assessing strategic customer objectives, digital transformation opportunity discovery, key improvement scenarios, and an ability to measure and present incremental and new economic value
• Leading, partnering and orchestrating with virtual teams of experts, SMEs composed of industry, engineering, solution, technical, licensing and legal team members
• Disciplined operator with demonstrated accuracy in forecasting business and maintaining CRM pipeline hygiene
• Certification and / or deep experience in business value selling.

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.

Detailed Description

• Imagine this: you finally finish writing that code. Now comes the tedious part - setting up the testing environment with the latest versions of all the tools you need. Wouldn’t it be awesome to have this easily available to you?
• Millions of our enterprise customers and software vendors deal with this every month. It slows down their progress and makes their lives a little less fun. They cannot easily re-test their code as new security updates for Windows come out every month.
• What if you could help solve this painful, recurring problem for customers around the globe? We’re building a Cloud service that uses intelligence to tackle this important problem. We want people like you to build this service from zero to world-class maturity.
• We believe in being experimental, learning constantly, being scrappy while bringing order to disorder, helping each other as humans and professionals to be our best possible selves. We believe great ideas come from a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and cognitive styles. We actively create an environment where everyone’s ideas can be heard and can contribute toward a much better end result. We live and breathe Microsoft’s mission to empower every single person and organization on the planet to achieve more.
• If you’re interested, apply to come join our team!

Responsibilities
This job might be for you if:

• You’re intrapreneurial and love being a founding member of teams
• You love to roll up your sleeves and solve problems
• You are excited about open source projects
• You love making and testing prototypes with real customers
• You get excited about solving real problems that impact a large number of lives
• You’re optimistic that we can help traditional industries with their digital transformation with cool new tech

Qualifications

• You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and/or 1+ experience building online services and data solutions
• You have experience with:
  • Object-oriented languages like Java/C#
  • Web technologies like Javascript
  • Scripting languages like Python/Powershell
  • Working with Big Data.

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.