Technology Specialist - Customer Experience

The Small, Medium, and Corporate team helps businesses achieve their digital transformation and business goals by helping customers with Microsoft solutions and partners. Located in either a Digital Sales center, or a local subsidiary, you will help our managed and scale customers across industries, company sizes and territories to identify their needs and opportunities using the latest in digital selling technology including big data and analytics. One of the fastest growing customer segments in the industry, you will help customers realize value from the Microsoft Cloud across customer solution areas like Modern Work, Security, Business Applications, Infrastructure, Data and AI, and Application Innovation.The reinvention of business processes is a growth engine for Microsoft cloud services. The mission of Microsoft Business Applications is to help our customers digitally transform their businesses to drive new sources of revenue, create new and engaging ways to serve their customers, and to transform the way in which their business runs to drive new levels of profitability for their organization.As a Technology Specialist –Customer Experience , you are a functional business process and technical workload expert within the Microsoft Business Applications enterprise sales organization working with our most important customers. You play a key role in the total sales cycle by helping them with their end-to-end business transformation needs through envisioning, designing and demonstrating solutions mapped to business value within the area of your workload expertise. Executing with excellence you will collaborate across the sales opportunity journey with the Business Applications sales team, Microsoft partners and ISVs, other Technical Specialists and our Customer Success team. You will additionally assist the Microsoft Business Applications Sales Executive in identifying, driving and successfully landing pipeline and customer solutions for the Customer Experience applications category.You will learn how Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 Customer Experience solutions are changing the way companies do business and are empowering success. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, honing your solution sales and collaboration skills, and deepening your cloud expertise.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.ResponsibilitiesWorkload and Business Process ExpertiseAchieve technical workload expertise for Business Applications Customer Experience

Exemplify category workload business process depth to accelerate opportunity results.

Business Value-led Presales ExpertiseParticipate in discovery sessions in each opportunity, yielding output of customer-agreed business challenges and win themes prioritized with business value.

Leverage workload expertise to build effective customer-centric solution assessments and designs based on business value and deliver compelling presentations to improve win rates.

Strategic Proactive SellerMaximize deal execution through the customer journey as a strategic, proactive seller to meet/exceed category revenue targets

Team with BA Sales Executives to uncover, identify and engage opportunities to drive category performance.

Build positive Business Decision Maker/CxO connections/engagements across category-specific roles with business value alignment by targeted personas.

Scale Through PartnersEngages in partner sell-with scenarios by contributing to the facilitation of technical engagements and partnering with colleagues to manage the sales process.

Build StrategyInfluences competitive strategy leveraging partner and internal teams; Acts as the voice of the customer by driving new feedback, blockers, insights, resource items across communities to support customer’s business outcomes and opportunities to promote usage.

Technical LeadershipShares ideas, insight, and strategic-technical input with internal and external communities using knowledge of Microsoft cloud solutions and their context in the competitive landscape. Provides thought leadership by acting as role model for the technical community and consistently sharing knowledge to increase the functional or technical skills and expertise of peers in ways that impact career goals and business outcomes.

OtherEmbody our culture and values

QualificationsRequired/Minimum QualificationsRelevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

OR equivalent experience.

Experience with Dynamics 365 or competitive Customer Experience workloads

Additional or Preferred Qualifications7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting, or related experience.

4+ years experience with Dynamics 365 or competitive Customer Experience workloads.

Certification in relevant (Microsoft or industry) technologies or disciplines (Dynamics 365 Functional Consultant Associate; Dynamics 365 Marketing Functional Consultant Associate - MB-22;MB-210).

Role can be based in Chicago,Dallas, Austin, Houston, Fargo, Atlanta, Charlotte, Fort Lauderdale, Philadelphia, Boston

ProfessionalStrategic thinking & execution.Ability to develop sales and business strategy options, while also being able to successfully execute plans and build strong relationships.

Excellent Communicator.Strong negotiation, organizational, presentation, financial acumen, written, and verbal communication skills.

High Performer. Highly driven person who consistently exceeds goals and expectations and has the ability, characteristics, and determination to compete effectively against skilled and diverse competition.

Work cohesively with members of the Microsoft sales & services team, Microsoft partners, engineering, and marketing to solve customer and partner issues, leverage best practices, & deliver results.

Growth Mindset.Ability to overcome and work around problems that are inevitable in rapidly growing businesses – positive approach to problem solving, learning, and development.

Purposeful Planner & Executor – Delivers business impact with intentional planning, driving clarity to the team with consistent coaching rhythms, removing blockers and ensuring quarterly business budget goals are met.

Disciplined Operator – Maintains excellence in pipeline management, forecasting and driving integrated territory and budget achievement planning.

ExperienceApplicable Customer Experience workloads/line of business expertise with one or more of the following: technical and business process presales, post-sales consulting or relevant company/customer IT application implementation or management

Driving and designing a solution strategy as part of the overall opportunity lifecycle

Identifying, driving and successfully landing pipeline and customer solutions in collaboration with sales leaders and team members

Extensive collaboration with technical pursuit teams designing cloud-based customer solutions

Success working with customers/stakeholders in presales or consulting engagements related to business applications workloads

Proven success demonstrating differentiated solution value and competitive advantage

Delivering customer-facing technical workload demonstrations to enterprise decision makers

Desirable but not required – workload certifications/degrees

Deep understanding of:Business solutions/line of business workload expertise by leveraging Customer Experience application solution experience in one or more of the following: Sales, Marketing, Service, Supply Chain, and/or Finance and how these solutions help customers achieve their desired business outcomes

Business value selling methodologies and practices mapped to customer persona pains/issues to uncover customer’s stated and unstated needs

Commercial cloud offerings, ideally Microsoft’s cloud platform, as well as competitive knowledge of other business applications solutions and related ecosystems

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