Digital Sales Cloud Acquisition

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The Digital Sales organization is an organization with a charter to accelerate Microsoft’s growth in its cloud-first, mobile-first businesses along with the traditional businesses. This organization is at the forefront of establishing a new sales model leveraging modern technology and big data and analytics to drive impactful demand response and targeted sales coverage. The Digital Sales Cloud Acquisition role is focused on working with Microsoft’s account teams to identify and drive opportunities in targeted workloads. The key goal of this role is to increase incremental sales volume through the generation of new opportunities that result in additional customer revenue. As a Digital Sales Cloud Acquisition, you will work closely with Specialists and Partners to plan and execute account coverage and campaign strategies to unlock new sales opportunities in our managed accounts. The role is adept at understanding the needs and process pains of customers to identify opportunities where Microsoft solutions can add long-term value.

**Responsibilities**:
**Customer Engagement**
- Closes large, multi-cloud complex deals with multiple decision makers. Executes high levels of pipeline hygiene. Leads pipeline reviews for the team. Prioritizes customers to contact based on gathered intelligence and automated sources. Keeps accurate and complete documentation of customer contacts. Identifies sources of information for customer intelligence. Demonstrates actively driving pipeline progression. Increases multi-cloud cross-selling results. Provides customer insights for impactful business change.
- Regularly achieves and/or exceeds targets for wins and revenue with consistent above average performance in market/solution area. Lands complex multi-cloud deals with high customer focus. Develops and shares methods for contacting customers and follow ups. Demonstrates disciplined approach to managing complete funnel in order to achieve targets.
- Consistently grows average deal size through cross sell, upsell, and strong customer focus. Drives resolution of blockers to help customers make decisions favoring Microsoft products and services. Aligns appropriate partners to drive best solutions for customers. Prepares and share best practices across regions. Drives deeper conversations with customers regarding digital transformation and alignment to Microsoft solutions. Leverages competitive insight in customer engagements. Actively leverages marketing insights to drive holistic customer conversations.

**Internal Engagement**
- Provides coaching to new hires. Proactively provides positive and constructive feedback on process, programs, culture, and areas of focus for potential improvement. Participates in v-team tasks related to driving improvements. Shares information with stakeholder groups to drive improvement. Shares customer insights with manager, peers, and cross-workload.
- Reviews plans with manager on regular cadence. Has regular one-to-one meetings to review progress and status against targets. Participates in team meetings, all-hands as needed. Proactively provides feedback on potential improvements. Iterates on processes to drive improvement. Stays abreast of product knowledge, company news, and market trends. Follows processes with rigor and timeliness, in accordance with pipeline management and target achievement. Recognizes current state and takes action appropriately to improve or course correct as needed. Shares perspective to drive operational improvement.
- Complies 100% with Digital Cloud Acquisition and Microsoft-wide processes. Elevates compliance concerns as needed.

**Leveraging Others**
- Completes all required training. Completes optional/recommended training (e.g., deeper solution area training/certifications). Seeks and achieves stretch learning projects. Creates and manages Personal Development Plan (PDP) in partnership with manager. Conducts regular reviews with manager. Seeks and achieves stretch projects or learnings. Learns to prepare and deliver multiple demos with a depth of technical topics.
- Executes Digital Sales excellence through use of tools such as LinkedIn, PointDrive, and Elevate to better identify, connect, and engage with customers and key decision makers and promote professional brand.
- Works across partners and internal teams to deliver strong customer experience. Increases scale and productivity through partners. Works with mentor outside Digital Cloud Acquisition. Explores new ways of execution, and leverages best practices shared by others. Proactively identifies opportunities to leverage