Description
SMC South Africa: Corporate Accounts Sales Manager (ATU Lead)
In SMC and Digital Sales, we have set out with the purpose to empower our customers through the unique value of the Microsoft cloud by building a globally-led, digital-first scale organization aligned with partners. Dedicated to one of the fastest growing customer segments, the Small, Medium, Corporate (SMC) and Digital Sales organization is committed to delivering the global digital scale engine for our business
- this is where you come in. As part of local subsidiaries or Digital Sales centers around the world, you will support a dedicated set of customers in identifying and achieving their business objectives through best-in-class digital engagement and partner co-selling. You will also have an opportunity to work cross-collaboratively while living our shared SMC and Digital Sales Culture priorities: Diverse and Inclusive, Wellbeing, Sustainability, Giving and Learning. If you have been described as customer obsessed and have a passion for digital-first solutions, we invite you to learn more about the SMC and Digital Sales organization and the value we deliver to our customers, partners, and one another, every day
Responsibilities:
People Management
- Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
- Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
- Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
- Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
Customer Engagement
- Ensures high standards across teams for customer relationships. Serves as escalation point for customer issues. Shares best practices across teams. Acts as executive sponsor for accounts. Is trusted advisor for customers and partners. Helps customers to digitally transform. Coaches teams to identify contacts in new accounts, building customer engagement and digitally transform their businesses. Advocates for customers (voice of the customer) within the organization/Microsoft. Ensures customer insights are gathered and feedback loop to stakeholder groups is followed.
- Ensures that team conducts due diligence to understand customers' priorities and strategies, and plans programs appropriately. Coordinates with colleagues across teams to support programs and processes. Expertise in Industry-relevant Microsoft solutions. Coaches and drives challenger mindset. Coaches team on senior executive engagements and relevancy to board-level approvals. Ensures teams use digital tools and technology to conduct research and engage customers. Builds partner relationships to drive scale and revenue. Coaches and
influences partners to consider different solution needs. Engages with C-Suite executives. Coaches teams on how to leverage broader Microsoft organization to better understand customers. Drives active listening and a challenger mindset with teams. Understands market conditions (e.g., within a country, within a vertical, laws, political environment) to inform customer engagements. Manages relationships inclusive of customers, partners, and internal and external stakeholders. Coaches sellers on opportunity reviews to understand stakeholder management impact (e.g., influence, budget).
- Sets standards for customer satisfaction metrics (e.g., timeliness and quality of contact). Incorporates feedback from internal teams and from customers into future engagements. Identifies key trends causing customer dissatisfaction and works systematic efforts to resolve (e.g., process improvements). Sets culture of customer obsession to ensure teams liaise with Customer Partner Experience (CPE) to generate outcomes. Takes ownership for issues and reaches out to customers to reinforce engagement. Celebrates success with teams. Shares learnings and simplification ideas from customer issues with broader team to mitigate existing issues. Engages with internal teams to resolve customer issues and drive accountability.
Account Management
- Leads teams in prioritizing and managing renewal process, including creatively addresses renewal options with internal partners and customers to maximize business outcomes and likelihood of renewal (e.g., industry case references, similar customer paths on deployment and adoption; whole stack adoption). Resolves escalations as needed. Understands risks and opportunities for growth. Represents full business picture to management. Drives team to deliver on growth targets and on-time renewals. Leads rhythm of the business with licensing solution provider partners to drive accountability. Verify the T- process is followed and address identified process gaps. Coaches managers and teams to ensure that activities are in place to drive consumption leading up to the renewal process. Drives customers to cloud solutions.
- Coordinates resources across teams to