You will drive Microsoft Advertising revenue growth, develop exceptional client relationships and deliver client obsession through direct management of a group of Account Executives and/or Account Managers. You will bring deep media sales experience, strategic thinking, client obsession, a passion for innovation and best practice sharing, while showing you can deliver exceptional results over time. You will leverage your proven track record of building, managing, and growing high-performing sales teams as you will be accountable for managing the development of the sales strategy, planning and execution across segments and solution areas to drive sales revenue, digital and business transformation. This opportunity will allow you to develop internal talent and capabilities and foster a culture of inclusion, learning and achievement as part of your responsibility for people management. You will drive sales excellence as you lead and transform the business and accelerate growth to drive success leveraging your industry knowledge. 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
You will deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring as well as attracting and retaining great people. You will drive business growth by leading sales planning and strategies to achieve consumption and sales targets. Sets direction, creates vision, inspires others and demonstrates presence. You will hold team accountable for forecasting expected sales revenue within the portfolio/customer segment(s) within their markets by defining expectations and goals to guide the development strategies to manage pipeline and meet sales goals by reviewing forecasts, assessing and mitigating risks, and ensuring strategy alignment with business priorities and share best practices while maintaining a high level of commitment and accountability. With your expert understanding of digital media platforms and technologies including competitor potential impact, you will leverage this to understand industry trends and how they shape market making opportunities. You will direct long-term customer satisfaction growth and maintenance strategies and drive business portfolio management to contribute to overall business growth as you manage relationships with customer stakeholders and the collection of feedback within the portfolio to identify and understand the drivers of satisfaction and/or dissatisfaction. You will direct the development and implementation of strategies for maximizing selling and customer add opportunities and ensure plans highlight solutions to solving additional business and technology issues while providing guidance on storytelling strategies to lead account conversations, evaluating account performance, developing short- and long-term strategies, and acting upon optimization opportunities. As a thought leader and trusted advisor to executive-level business decision makers across their business areas you will leverage and socialize best-in-class sales and communication techniques to direct efforts to lead teams and key internal and/or external stakeholders with deep industry expertise (e.g., industry solutions executives) and to enable their team(s) to build stronger relationships with decision makers across business areas.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications (RQs)
Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 12+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 10+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR equivalent experience 6+ years direct/formal, indirect/informal, and/or project team people management experience
Preferred Qualifications (PQs)
Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 15+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 10+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR equivalent experience 6+ years experience leading teams and/or managers in a sales organization 5+ years experience working in China cross-border advertising industry 5+ years experience working in big international technology companies Proficient in spoken and written English and Mandarin
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