Strategic Account Management

The Telco, Media, and Gaming Operating Unit is a newly formed, industry-focused team of sales professionals dedicated to helping customers achieve their strategic goals through Microsoft's solutions. In this role, you'll work alongside top-tier sellers, solution architects, and customer success managers to lead digital transformation efforts and deliver tangible business outcomes. By addressing complex industry challenges with innovative solutions, you'll accelerate deal velocity and play a key role in shaping the future success of our customers. 

As a Strategic Enterprise Account Executive, you will have the opportunity to drive Transformation in partnership with our most Strategic customers with a focus on AI, Copilot and Security, to achieve both Microsoft and customer business outcomes.

Leveraging your large, multi-functional team across the breadth of the Microsoft solutions portfolio, engage at the most senior levels of your customer and bring industry-relevant solutions to help the customer adopt and embrace digital technologies.

With a proven history of driving growth in market share, achieving sales targets, customer obsession, and partner collaboration, this role will give the opportunity to leverage your extensive customer network and sales experience to execute against your customer's account plan.

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.

• You will deliver business growth through leading and empowering account teams. Lead execution of Go to Market (GTM) to achieve customer business outcomes across the entire customer lifecycle.
• You will accelerate customer satisfaction and model executive engagements with business decision makers and C-Level executives.
• You will win against competition by establishing Microsoft as market leader, maximizing Customer spend, achieving targets (billed revenue, consumption, and adoption).
• You will lead partnership across the organization to achieve business value for customers and business results for Microsoft.
• You will cultivate relationships and use Microsoft sales strategies throughout multiple levels of the customer's organization (e.g., executives, business, and technical decision makers) to establish strong alignment on long-term goals and secure buy-in and execution.
• You will use business cases to develop and present compelling value proposition presentations and specialized business plans for customers that showcase Microsoft's products and solutions, generate business and upsells, and generate new opportunities.

Required Qualifications (RQs) 

• Experience in working in an industry (e.g., Telecommunications, Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Energy, Government, Education, Technology) and/or driving digital transformation
  • OR Bachelor's Degree AND experience working in an industry (e.g., Telecommunications, Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Energy, Government, Education, Technology) and/or driving digital transformation
  • OR Master's Degree AND experience working in an industry (e.g., Telecommunications,  Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Energy, Government, Education, Technology) and/or driving digital transformation.
• Experience making recommendations to and/or collaborating with mid-to-senior level executives
• Experience closing large, complex agreements/deals
  • OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications (PQs) 

• UK/London location preferred
• This role will focus on one of the top media firms in the world.  Strong media experience preferred. 
• Demonstrated experience leading global matrixed teams in complex deal orchestration and building strategic partnerships

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.