Solution Area Specialists M5

Are you passionate about helping customers build resiliency, reduce risk and embrace Zero Trust in the age of cloud migration and Digital Transformation?

Microsoft continues to invest over $1B per year in security and research to enable its customers to confidently move to the cloud and modernize their platforms. We deliver the security, compliance, and identity solutions they need to keep their data safe.

In the Security Solutions Team, we are passionate about this mission, and we are looking for a Specialist Manager to lead, develop and manage a team of high performing Specialists to drive solution opportunity revenue and market share by leveraging the Microsoft Technologies to meet their customers data modernization and analytics solution needs.

**Responsibilities**:**
The Impact You’ll be Making - The Security Specialist Manager for Global Black Belts is responsible for**:
**Sales & Transformational Business Leadership**:

- Bring Transformational Business Leadership that can drive Security sales execution, enhance our Security Go-To-Market, identify and accelerate new sales motions, and coach our seasoned Global Black Belt sales organization
- Lead sellers to drive the Security business to overachieve revenue and scorecard targets, with a focus on our XDR+SIEM motion and integrating new Threat Intelligence and Attack Surface Management capabilities into our sales motions.
- Incubate new sales motions by landing lighthouse customers and blazing the trail for a scalable sales motion
- Develop their seller’s Solution Sales skills to sell the business outcomes of the broader Security platform
- Partner with regions to develop action plans and provide leadership to regions to implement plans
- Share performance insights, accelerators, blockers corp teams and land worldwide initiatives with local Security leadership
**People Management**:

- Embrace model, coach, care approach as the core leadership principles. Strong leadership skills to empower, motivate, and create an inclusive environment for the team members to thrive.
- Develop a high-performing team by hiring diverse talent, prioritizing development, leading by example and by preparing people for more senior positions in other parts of the organization.
- Proactively manage skills development across region to build regional capability in transformation and new workloads
**Customer centricity**:

- Lead from the front, personally engaging at CxO level to support and coach teams on opportunity discovery and acceleration
- Lead sellers to drive end-to-end business solutions, increasing customer and partner satisfaction and average deal sizes YoY.
- Lead cross-team to ensure customer intent to consume cloud services sold.
**Partner Engagement**:

- Advocate and encourage early partner engagements to fully leverage the growth opportunities with partners
- Directly engage with strategic partners to bring the right solution to the customers
- Engage as key sponsor for strategic customers and partners (per agreement with local subsidiary) to nurture relationships and influence successful results
- Lead by example & champion strategic partners and MS services for co-selling
- Bring insights back on program landing for partners. Facilitate buildout of the partner ecosystem to scale the business
**Key Success Criteria**
- Creation and retention of a highly motivated, diverse, and high performing team
- Execution and growth of sales opportunities working closely with the sales team and other cross functional groups
- Clearly capturing and communicating customer feedback, potential gaps, and challenges with leadership, including proposal for potential solutions for quick resolution
- Successful engagement model for leveraging partners to grow our business and scale
- Becoming a trusted advisor and thought leader for customers, partners, and sales team

**Qualifications**:
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.