Job Description
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The Impact Youll Be Making
As a Solution Sales Specialist, you will drive sales of Microsoft Dynamics solutions. Some of the things youll be doing:
Be a relationship builder, developing a deep understanding of key business stakeholders and decision makers:
•Builds relationships with key stakeholders and business decision makers to understand the customers business.
•Develops a deep understanding of how stakeholders fit into the business and the results they want to achieve.
•Seeks widespread support from both business and technical key stakeholders.
Be a business challenger, leading with insights and business value to reframe thinking:
•Has a challenger mentality, always leading with insights, reframing the way customers think about their business opportunity.
•Sells to Business Decision Makers based on business value and business outcomes vs. transactional selling to IT.
•Expert in laying out the business case for why new insights and perspectives are important for customers.
•Able to connect new insights about the customer's business to the uniqueness of a total supplier/partner solution
Be a business networker, broadening relationships and influencing views towards Microsoft:
•Has a strong and active business network, always sharing insights that influence thinking towards Microsoft solution.
•Able to leverage network to do prospecting and discovery to a broad community of business decision makers.
Be a strong sales pursuit leader, orchestrator and disciplined seller and operator:
•Identifies partners that can accelerate business, drive business value, make deals bigger and transfer risk.
•Assembles and orchestrates high-quality Cross-Microsoft and partner sales pursuit teams to win new business.
•Disciplined in the way they manage pipeline, opportunities always meeting sales targets and quota.
Who were looking for.
Professional
•Experienced. 5+ years of demonstrated Enterprise Selling experience in Industry, Business Application sales environments.
•Excellent Collaborator. Builds strong relationships and leadership connections to understand customer needs.
•Challenger. Adept at challenging perspectives with new, innovative ideas that reframes thinking about the value of Microsoft solutions.
•Interpersonal. Very strong presentation, white boarding and communication skills.
•Sales Orchestrator. Demonstrated leader, orchestrator of sales pursuit teams, internal and with partner to win deals.
Performer. Highly driven person who consistently exceeds goals and expectations.
•Growth Mindset. Willing to go the extra mile, unlock own potential and the potential of solutions to derive value for customers.
Sales Excellence
•Value selling. Very familiar with the latest business value sales methodologies, practices and technologies that drive sales prospecting, sales execution and selling in complex solution selling environments.
Business Acumen
•Business Savvy. Combination of relevant Industry, Business Applications in the Cloud sales experience, business process expertise to understand how customer issues impact their business environments and success.
Technology
•Technical Proficiency: Proficient in the core capabilities, value proposition and competitive differentiation of Business Application Solutions. CRM or ERP and Business Application Cloud solutions considered a bonus/preferred.
Education
•Degree: Requires a bachelor degree in Business Administration or Industry-related discipline.