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Microsoft Corporation (commonly referred to as Microsoft or MS) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operatin...
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The Small, Medium, and Corporate (SMC) team helps businesses achieve their digital transformation goals by matching customer challenges with Microsoft solutions. You will help our managed customers (SMC-Corporate) across industries, company sizes and territories to identify their needs and opportunities. One of the fastest growing customer segments in the technology industry, you will help customers get to the cloud across Microsoft solution areas like Modern Workplace, Business Applications, Applications and Infrastructure, and Data and AI.
The SMC-Corporate team has different roles that work together in an orchestrated manner and are located in our Digital Sales centers and local subsidiaries.
The Cloud Specialist 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 of our cloud solutions, through the generation of new opportunities that result in additional customer revenue. As a Specialist Sales Professional, you will work closely with Sellers and Partners to plan and execute account coverage actions to unlock new sales opportunities. A Cloud Specialist engages new customers, builds, identifies, drives, orchestrates and closes opportunities with customers that produce transformative business outcomes The role is adept at understanding the needs and process pains of customers to identify opportunities where Microsoft solutions can add long-term value. You will have the exciting opportunity to be responsible for driving cloud business and digital transformation for customers, fostering a positive and collaborative experience for prospects to evaluate, engage with and implement Microsoft products and partner solutions.
The cloud Speciliast will cover public sector accounts in East Africa.
Responsibilities
As the Cloud Specialist, you will be responsible for working with Business Decision Makers to understand their unique business needs. You will be on point to orchestrate an extensive team covering multiple solution areas to find a solution that will empower their employees and drive their business and work in a team, enabling the customers through digital transformation by leveraging our cloud offerings.
Qualifications
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
The successful candidate is an experienced sales professional with deep customer insights, a track record of business strategy, sales leadership, and hands-on execution excellence. Specifically, this highly visible and sales role requires a candidate, who possesses the following characteristics:
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