Data, Apps & AI Solution Specialist, SMC UK

In Small, Medium, Corporate (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 SMC and Digital Sales organization is on pace to be Microsoft's next $100 billion-dollar business - this is where you come in. As part of local subsidiaries or Digital Sales centers around the world, you will support a dedicated set of customers in identifying and achieving their business objectives through best-in-class digital engagement and partner co-selling. You will also have an opportunity to work cross-collaboratively while living our shared SMC and Digital Sales Culture priorities: Diversity and Inclusivity, Wellbeing, Sustainability, and Learning. If you have been described as customer obsessed and have a passion for digital-first solutions, we invite you to learn more about the SMC and Digital Sales organization and the value we deliver to our customers, partners, and one another, every day.

As an Azure Data, Apps & AI Specialist you will be a senior solution sales leader within our Small, Medium and Corporate growth business, leading a virtual team of technical, partner and consulting resources to advance the sales process and achieve/exceed quarterly Data, Apps & AI revenue and usage/consumption targets in your assigned accounts. This includes winning the database platform, supporting customers’ migration to the cloud, their data platform modernisation aspirations and supporting new application development. You will also support your customers in innovating with AI, building AI into their customer facing solutions and supporting their internal operations in driving efficiency and automation. You will be a trusted advisor and Analytics, Data Apps & AI subject matter expert with core capability and expertise in Data Modernization, Analytics and AI. 

You will work with customers to leverage data to help them achieve their business priorities and help guide customer’s journey through Analytics-led Azure Data transformation. You will help customers evaluate their applications and business requirements, recommend solutions that meet their requirements and demonstrate these solutions to win the technical decision. You will need to support customers to remove roadblocks to deployment and drive customer satisfaction. You will help our customers take advantage of our unique hybrid data platform and leading Analytics, Apps & AI solutions to realize the value of digital transformation.   This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, honing your solution sales and collaboration skills, and deepening your cloud expertise. 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

• Identify new data, AI and application development opportunities with the support of marketing signals, existing customer usage and targeted business development activities
• Collaborate with a team of technical, partner, and consulting resources to advance the sales process and exceed quarterly Data, Apps & AI revenue targets in your assigned accounts. ​​
• Engage in conversation with customers aligned to their industry and collaborates with account and partner team to drive and qualify new opportunities and build pipeline.
• Maximise key market opportunities to accelerate consumption (e.g. end of life campaigns, data centre exit,  data driven targeting based on usage, trial conversion, competitive moments) 
• Identify customer business and technology readiness
• Strong program usage to show Microsoft’s commitment to our customers (skilling, presales funding, solution assessments, FastTrack advisory)
• Drive strong partner collaboration on sales opportunities to accelerate velocity and consumption growth.
• Set up events within Microsoft, mentor others and develops strategies for best practice sharing​
• Drives the execution of projects, partners and collaborates with other teams on related deliverables, and leverages others in relevant work streams.​

Data, applications and AI is a fact-moving space in Microsoft’s portfolio so it’s important so consistent upskilling required on solution knowledge and competitive positioning

Qualifications

• Demonstrated technology-related sales or account management experience

OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND demonstrated technology-related sales or account management experience, OR equivalent experience

• Solution sales or consulting services sales experience working with Data solutions (Cloud-based Data Warehouse, Hadoop, Spark, Data Lake, SQL solutions required MySQL, PostreSQL, NoSQL (Mongo), and Machine Learning solutions desired.

This role is based in either UK (Reading) or Ireland.  You should be a tax redisent currently of UK or Ireland, no relocation offered.

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