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Are you insatiably curious, deeply passionate about the realm of digital applications and innovation, and ready to tackle complex challenges in a dynamic environment? If so, we invite you to join our team in Abu Dhabi as a Solution Sales Specialist in App Innovation at Microsoft UAE.

Digital Application & Innovation is a growth opportunity for Microsoft Azure, as well as its partners and customers. It includes a rich portfolio of products including Managed/PaaS services on the Azure Platform, GitHub, AI, Open Source Databases and Visual Studio. These technologies empower developers to build, deploy, and manage applications in a cloud-native way.

Microsoft is hiring Specialist seller for Application Innovation business to deliver sales goals in this dynamic and fast-growing enterprise market in Abu Dhabi.

As an Application Innovation Specialist, you will be a senior solution sales leader, with technical acumen, selling the Microsoft Application innovation portfolio to our largest enterprise customers. You will manage CxO level business relationships, understand customer challenges and priorities, identify modernization opportunities across the customer's application estate, build a business case for innovation, lead an architectural design session, close the business, and build a plan for deployment of app modernization/ innovation projects. You will do this with your deep Industry knowledge, technical acumen and by leading a virtual team of resources across Microsoft and Partner ecosystem to win the business. You will spend 70% of your time on customer-facing activities driving sales and technical conversations, 15% in internal meetings for collaboration and 15% to maintain business hygiene like reporting and managing pipeline.

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.

Responsibilities

• Create “buy-in” vision with key decision makers

• Build executive relationships with key decision makers and generate excitement around Microsoft solutions’ value to influence long-term strategic direction

• Understand customer’s application footprint, digital transformation needs, business and technology strategy and compete landscape to map customer’s current and desired state and expectations

• Collaborate with the customers to outline business priorities and understand the buying decision criteria and timeline

• Lead the solution design with technical acumen

• Strong presentation and communication skills with ability to demo and whiteboard application architectures

• By collaborating with a team of technical resources (e.g., cloud solution architects and partners and Technical Specialists) , conduct an architecture design session and build a Proof of Concept to showcase how solution meets customer’s requirements.

• Engage Partner to maximize business results

• Bring together and land Microsoft solutions with Partner solutions, fully leverage the synergistic effect with our partners.

• Share practical knowledge and co-sell with them to make deals faster and bigger.

• Build App Innovation business case to substantiate the value of the solution

• Leverage various commercial offers and programs to negotiate, close the deal and successfully displace competition.

• Lead multi-million-dollar deals requiring orchestration of virtual teams composed of industry, solution, technical, licensing & legal team members.

• Drive Sales Excellence: Exceed sales / cloud consumption quota by driving pipeline management and accurate forecasting.

• Be the Voice of the Customer: Share feedback, best practices to influence Microsoft Go-To-Market and product strategies

We encourage all our employees to continuously maintain and enhance their technical, sales, and professional skills. You will be recognized for thought leadership, sharing, learning, and driving business impact for customers, partners, and Microsoft.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related

• 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.

Professional

• Sales or Consulting experience with data center migration or application modernization/ Cloud Native projects

• Experience selling Cloud Application Platform services, database, Developer Productivity tools, Low Code tools with a demonstrated track record in working towards sales goals.

• Industry knowledge of application landscape and trends in verticals like Public Sector, Healthcare, FSI, Energy etc. is a plus.

• Executive presence with experience selling to Chief Digital Officers, Head of Products, and enterprise solution architects.

• Able to work cohesively with members of Microsoft sales & services, System Integrator partners and marketing.

Technical

• Technical passion with good understanding of cloud architectural patterns leveraging managed or Platform-As-A-Service offerings, rearchitecting monolithic applications with cloud native technologies, related databases and modern DevOps/ DevSecOps practices.

• Good Knowledge on AI and building native intelligent applications infused in AI services.

• Experience with competitive Application development services across public cloud (e.g. AWS, GCP, Oracle) .

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .