Digital Sales Enterprise, part of Microsoft's Digital sales organization, empowers our customers through the unique value of the Microsoft Cloud by building a globally-led, digital-first scale organization aligned with partners. As part of our local subsidiaries or Digital Sales centers around the world, you will engage a dedicated set of enterprise customers to identify and achieve their business objectives through best-in-class digital engagement and partner co-selling. You will also have an opportunity to work collaboratively across teams while living our shared Digital Sales Culture priorities: Diversity and Inclusivity, Wellbeing, Sustainability, and Customer Obsession.
In the Digital Sales Enterprise Security Specialist team, we are looking for a passionate, experienced, and credible sales professional with a passion for enhancing the security capabilities of the world's leading enterprise organizations to join our global team of Digital Security Specialists.
Fueled by an integrated approach that blends compliance, identity management, and AI-driven automation you will be a part of our vision to safeguard digital ecosystems through end-to-end security thought leadership, driving significant customer value and enabling transformational customer outcomes.
***
We are looking for an Enterprise Digital Specialist, specializing in Security solutions, you will work with our most important customers within our enterprise organization. You will drive the day-to-day execution of Microsoft's strategic business priorities - selling best-in-class cloud services and platforms to our managed customers and building digital transformation momentum for our customers, partners, and Microsoft.
***
**Passion for Security**:You will have the opportunity to enhance the security capabilities of the world's leading enterprise organizations, fueled by an integrated approach that blends compliance, identity management, and AI-driven automation.
**Safeguard Digital Ecosystems**:Be part of our vision to safeguard digital ecosystems. As part of our mission, we champion a Zero Trust mindset, empowering organizations worldwide.
***
**Beyond today's technology**:You will work directly with enterprise customers to help them unlock the value of AI across their organization and help them understand how AI and Automation can advance their security capabilities.
- This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
**Responsibilities**:
As a Digital Security Specialist, you'll work with customers to identify their cybersecurity needs and recommend suitable Microsoft solutions. You'll collaborate with various customer groups to enhance their security through digital transformation strategies. Leading customer conversations, you'll coordinate with internal teams and partners to maximize security opportunities.
**Sales Excellence**: Leads and plans for named accounts in the assigned territory, proactively builds an external stakeholder mapping to accelerate the closing of deals. Performs business analysis to pursue high-potential customers and manage the end-to-end Security business across the assigned territory by driving consumption and licensing transactions to grow business within assigned territory.
**Scaling and Collaboration**:Collaborates on the planning, orchestration, and execution on Security opportunities with virtual teams made up of internal stakeholders and partners to cross-sell and up-sell.
**Industry Awareness**:Initiates and leads Security conversations, shares best practices, key competitor knowledge and customer insights across solution areas to elevate team capabilities and make recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal.
**Sales Execution**: Drives new sales and new customer engagements using innovative approaches, leveraging digital signals, partnership events, social selling (LinkedIn) and networking opportunities.
**Learning**:Completes required training and obtain relevant security expertise and certifications aligned to the role.
**Qualifications**:
**Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)**
- 7+ years sales and negotiation experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) or related field AND 4+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience
- OR Master's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) is required
- OR equivalent experience
**Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)**
- Operational and sales excellence discipline, including planning, opportunity qualification