Account Executive

Responsibilities

The Account Executive will be responsible for the following:

Customer Engagement

• Proactively cultivates relationships with customers and uses Microsoft sales strategies with executive and business and technical decision makers at high levels of the customer's organization to establish alignment and secure buy-in and execution. Connects the customer to Microsoft executives. Leverages strong customer engagement strategies to build long-term relationships with customers and drive budget allocation decisions. Partners with them to foster trust and brand growth and loyalty through multiple levels (e.g., managers, executives) of the customer's organization in the assigned accounts. Assists partners in joint-selling by establishing joint desire to create new go-to markets by starting to build relationships in new markets (e.g., Vice President).
• Proactively develops a comprehensive understanding of customer's business needs and strategies for each assigned account, of their priorities, and of the industry direction. Anticipates customers needs to deliver new insights on customers business strategies and educate customers on ways to jointly address these needs. Identifies and pursues opportunities to offer highly-customizable digitalization solutions. Leverages internal influence to advocate on behalf of the customer internally (e.g., driving changes to roadmap, engaging with product groups), working to prioritize customers' requests and meeting their business needs. Creates trust to influence for impact and acts as a trusted advisor to help the customer transform its business model.
• Leads digital transformation for assigned accounts to drive business outcomes and create business value for customers. Disrupts the mindset of customers by bringing innovative ideas that showcase the need for change and new strategic direction. Is sought out by the customer for guidance related to transformation. Proactively involves corporate resources and engages cross-industry resources to drive customer transformation. Ensures line-of-business wins are captured (e.g., customer write ups) as reference for scale.