Cloud and AI Platform Sales Director

• Develops and drives go-to-market sales strategy and execution to ensure success within their market based on Microsoft's and customer/partner needs.
• Defines ongoing and long-term customer value realization and satisfaction strategies contributing to net-new revenue and business growth.
• Leverages industry and market expertise, proactively leading teams to identify solutions to drive new opportunities and strategies in alignment with customer needs.
• Defines expectations and sets strategies for teams to leverage drivers of Digital & Artificial Intelligence transformation relevant to their customers and partners across business units.
• Fosters and defines a culture of inclusion, learning, mentorship, coaching, customer-centricity, accountability, collaboration, and achievement of bold goals.
• Builds and maintains a broad executive network inclusive of partners. In addition, this role has people management responsibilities including driving employee growth and development, executing projects, and managing performance.
• You also lead your team to plan and execute strategies for driving and closing opportunities, and to identify new partners and evaluate partner capabilities. You coach your team to learn about and apply the orchestration model, and support them in participating in Microsoft events. Additionally, you act as the spokesman for Microsoft at external events and coach your team about Microsoft technology differentiators/competitive advantage.
• You lead your team to optimize the portfolio and facilitate customer innovation, and guide them on ensuring customer/partner satisfaction. Moreover, you drive and oversee integrated strategic planning and guide your team in whitespace analysis and support them to identify potential new business in their assigned territories. Finally, you oversee the end-to-end business and complete required training and obtain relevant product and role certifications.

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

Cloud Azure and/or Consumption experience.

• 11+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Analytics, Data Science, or related field AND 12+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration, Analytics, Data Science, or related field AND 8+ years technology-related sales or account management experience.
• 10+ years solution or services sales experience.
• 7+ years senior technical sales leadership experience in cloud services growth and consumption.

Solution Area Specialists M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $142,800 - CAD $214,900 per year.

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Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.

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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