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OverviewIn SMC and Digital Sales, we have set out with the purpose of empowering our customers through the unique value of the Microsoft cloud by building a globally led, digital-first scale organization aligned with partners.
Dedicated to one of the fastest growing customer segments, the Small, Medium, Corporate (SMC) and Digital Sales organization is on pace to be Microsoft's next $100 billion-dollar business - this is where you come in.As an Azure SAP Specialist, you will be a senior solution sales leader with deep technical and business expertise within our sales organization working with our most important customers.
You will lead a virtual team of technical, partner and consulting resources to help customers realize digital transformation through architecting, moving, and/or extending customers' SAP Workloads on Azure.
A core competency of the role is to advance the sales process to achieve/exceed quarterly SAP solution sales and usage/consumption targets for related workloads in your assigned accounts.
You possess a high EQ with executive presence, able to engage with senior decision makers to uncover digital transformation initiatives, you have a passion for learning how Azure cloud services can enhance SAP workloads to deliver true digital transformation.
You will develop and maintain an SAP on Azure Infrastructure, RISE with SAP on Azure, and application migration expertise, able to identify projects, build a compelling business case, and drive the consumption project to production.
You will build and maintain relationships with customers, influence long-term strategic direction and act as a trusted advisor driving engagement at the CXO level with business and technology decision makers.
You will help customers evaluate their cloud strategy, determine approaches to application and data migration and modernization, and recommend solutions that meet their requirements.
You will remove roadblocks to deployment and drive customer satisfaction.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.
In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.
You can help us to achieve our mission.
QualificationsRequired/Minimum QualificationsSolid technical pre-sales or technical consulting experienceExperience working wuth SAP and Azure/other cloud based tech.
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND a few years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experienceOR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND a few years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experienceAdditional or Preferred QualificationsAzure Certifications: Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) and/or Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (Exam AZ-305)Deep domain knowledge in Data Center MigrationPosition is based in: Dublin, Ireland#smcdscareersMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.ResponsibilitiesYou will lead business level dialogue with customers around the SAP workloads, including Business transformation for enterprise computing and digital transformation, creating "buy-in" vision with key CxO decision makers by building executive relationships to generate excitement around Microsoft solutions' value to influence long-term strategic direction around SAP workloadsEngage and jointly sell with SAP counterparts, Partners and Priority ISVs to maximize business results by bringing together Microsoft and Partner solutions to deliver against customer business outcomes leveraging assets across Microsoft, SAP Architects, Product Teams and Engineering.
You will brief Microsoft Executives around complex sales opportunities, including competitive strategies and close plans to engage customers with joint value positioningYou will influence the Microsoft Azure SAP GTM strategies by providing feedback to the leadership team, marketing, and engineering on current and future product requirements and sales blockers.
You will be recognized for sharing, learning and driving work that results in business impact for customers, partners and Microsoft.
We encourage thought leadership, and we encourage all our employees to continuously maintain and enhance their technical, sales, professional skills and competitive readiness.
You will therefore be required to attain and maintain required certifications.
You will lead multi-million-dollar deals, requiring orchestration of virtual teams composed of industry, solution, technical, licensing & legal team members as well as SI and ISV partners.
Drive Sales Excellence: Exceed sales / cloud consumption quota by driving pipeline management and accurate forecasting.
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