Digital Solution Area Sales Specialist - Danish speaking

The Digital Solution Area Specialist for AI Business Process has a deep understanding of customers' business and its priorities. They drive conversations with customers on digital transformation across multiple departments, in collaboration with partners colleagues. They collaborate with account teams and partners to track, qualify, and expand new opportunities. They identify, develop, propose, and articulate solutions that align with customer needs. They contribute, give input and coach the pod team on strategies to drive and close prioritized business process opportunities. Collaborates with the internal partner team, and partners to cross-sell, up-sell, and co-sell. Applies the orchestration model to proactively drive deal closure by identifying and aligning internal stakeholders and leveraging and expanding relationships with partners. Proactively provides analysis of the competitive landscape in supported solution area and decides to pursue or withdrawal. Contributes to exploring business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and support customer innovation. Manages and/or orchestrates sales and delivery success through the account team and pursuit team. Engages with internal and external stakeholders on business planning, rhythm-of-business (ROB) meetings to review and plan for assigned accounts. Collaborates with internal teams and partners to conduct business analysis to pursue high-potential customers and develop a target list of high-potential business. Manages the end-to-end AI Business Process business growth for the assigned territory. 

Sales Execution

Collaborates with team members to discover new opportunities; drives incremental revenue growth through personal campaigns (e.g., portfolio analysis) or internal sources (e.g., marketing, account teams); collaborates with account teams, partners, or services to track, qualify, and expand new opportunities; collaborates with other teams (e.g., account teams) and services to build pipeline; interfaces with customers and builds relationships via social selling; applies Microsoft's sales process (MSP) to determine the quality of the opportunity and whether to proceed.

Engages in conversations with customers to introduce how other workloads could enable digital transformation areas that is aligned with the customer's industry and turns opportunities into deals; has a deep understanding of customers' business and its priorities to drive conversations with customers on digital transformation across multiple solution areas, in collaboration with partners and services; creates guiding examples of digital transformation through seminars, workshops, Webinars, and direct engagement.

Identifies customer business needs and technology readiness; contributes to the development of solutions in collaboration with internal teams, partners, and services; proposes prioritized solutions that align with customers' needs; articulates the business value of proposed solutions.

Proactively builds external stakeholders' mapping; collaborates with account teams (e.g., Account Executives) to identify and engage senior business subject matter decision makers at the customer's/partner's business.

Identifies opportunities to drive consumption and grow business with existing customers by initiating conversations, providing demos or quotes, and collaborating with partners or internal teams (e.g., Technical Sales Professionals, global black belts [GBBs]); for licensing transactions and project engagements, ensures rapid and robust deployment plan at point of sale that is validated by services and partners; identifies, articulates, and facilitates the removal of blockers to consumption by partnering with internal and external stakeholders.

Implements strategies to accelerate the closing of deals; contributes input on strategies to drive and close prioritized opportunities; coaches less experienced team members in deal plan execution; implements close plans (e.g., how to map timeline, engage the customer, get customer buy in and commitment) to de-risk and drive predictable deal closure.

Scaling and Collaboration

Collaborates with One Commercial Partner (OCP) and with a network of partners to cross-sell, up-sell, and co-sell; identifies and supports on-boarding new partners by researching and discussing customer scenarios; provides feedback to OCP on partner gaps; develops joint proposals and consumption plans with partners; contributes to developing partner strategies to address gaps in partner capabilities.

Applies the orchestration model to proactively drive deal closure by identifying and aligning internal stakeholders and leveraging and expanding relationships with partners.

Technical Expertise

Collaborates with the "compete" global black belts (GBBs) to analyze competitor products, solutions, and/or services and implements strategies to position Microsoft against competitors in customer communication; proactively provides analysis of the competitive landscape in supported solution area; evaluates opportunities and makes recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal.

Danish Language fluency is required

Required/minimum qualifications

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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