Job Vacancies at Microsoft Nigeria

Job number: 676906
Location: Nigeria
Travel: 25-50 %
Profession: Sales
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Mission Overview

• Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

Job Description

• The focus of the Services Account Executive (SE) role is to lead the Services sales account strategy in Microsoft’s most strategic enterprise customers, developing and winning large, complex digital transformation opportunities that enable customer outcomes and drive Microsoft cloud usage.
• The SE leverages Microsoft Services’ unique expertise, including direct access to Microsoft product teams, to help customers use their Microsoft investments as productively as possible

Responsibilities
Key accountabilities include:

• Lead Services sales relationship with the Enterprise Operating Unit (EOU): building and maintaining close working relationships with the Account Executive (AE) and Account Technology Strategist (ATS) and collaborating through an agreed account rhythm.
• Lead Services sales strategy and account planning with the EOU: orchestrating the Services v-team to ensure appropriate Services activities aligned to customer priorities, and agreeing where Services will lead and where Services will support partner-led opportunities.
• Close deals through effective leadership and orchestration of the Services virtual team: being accountable for the entire sales cycle 0-100%, intentionally selling Services Industry Digital Transformation and Support Priorities and Key Offers, driving Services Specialist (SSSP) responsibility for leading Solution Area-specific opportunities and leveraging pre-sales assistance.
• Meet or exceed revenue targets and maintain deal management excellence - executing sales excellence discipline in pipeline hygiene, deal commitment & close planning.

Qualifications
Key Experience, Skills, Knowledge & Education Required:

• Proven sales success and expertise in selling solutions
• Industry knowledge and atleast 10 years sales experience
• Understanding of Microsoft business (cloud solutions and services)
• Track record of consistently meeting or exceeding sales targets
• Demonstrable sales excellence discipline
• Executes recognized sales methods, processes and tools
• Sales and business background, with 5+ years of technology-related experience
• Bachelor's degree with exposure to Information Technology (or equivalent)

Capabilities Profile:

• Sales Account Leader & Achiever - Ability to: Reliably meet or exceed revenue targets through effective account leadership, planning and execution, successfully influencing key stakeholders within customers, partners and internally.
• Digital Transformation Driver - Ability to: Engage Customer Business Decision Makers (BDM’s) and Technical Decision Makers (TDM’s), creating a compelling case for customer change and tailoring sales messages to Customer’s desired business impact and outcomes.
• Industry Expert - Ability to: Articulate Industry-focused Digital Transformation and Support Subject Matter Expertise and differentiate competitor propositions.
• Deal Orchestrator - Ability to: Orchestrate deal team to ensure success, working in partnership across multiple v-teams while continuously maintaining sales excellence discipline.

Benefits and Perks

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away.

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Job number: 678255
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Travel: 25-50 %
Profession: Services
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Microsoft Services (Depart)

• Microsoft Services helps our customers adopt and deploy Microsoft technologies efficiently and cost effectively, reducing the time it takes customers to realise value from their Microsoft investments.
• Our consulting business area is all about helping our customers achieve their organisational goals and make the market for our products by showcasing what is possible with our newest technologies.

Role Overview

• Project Managers are vital roles within Services tasked with taking ownership for delivery of one or more technology projects for our clients.
• You will be responsible for delivery execution and predictable, successful high quality of delivery (accomplished on time, on budget and according to agreed scope) resulting in good customer satisfaction.
• Typical project budgets will be around $1 - $2 million and a virtual team size between 5-30 resources. Not all projects are huge in terms of budget or size but they are all complex and vary immensely depending on the technology being deployed, client and scope of work.
• Engagements with Microsoft Services range from two weeks to three years, encompassing anything from enterprise consulting to infrastructure architecture to large scale applications development.
• Typical projects that you will be responsible for managing will be larger and longer projects, 6-12 months in duration. Put simply, your role will be to deliver & delight our customers and enable them to realise their full potential through Microsoft software and services.
• The role requires circa 50% travel within the country of residence, and potentially to other countries and across the region.

Key focus areas for us:

• Core project management skills - We need solid core Project Management skills including financial management, planning, scheduling, reporting, resource management, communications, risk management, dependencies, scope, time quality & budget.
• Technology - You will need to rely on your experience delivering complex, technical projects and the unique challenges faced with these types of projects. Specific technology is not so important (ideally Microsoft) but a good breadth of knowledge is essential.
• Flexibility & adaptability - This is a hands on project management role and will suit those individuals who are passionate about detailed project management. We need those prepared & motivated to get involved and rely on initiative, tenacity and focus to get projects across the line, exceeding expectations.
• Impact - We need people who can make things happen - you will need to re-plan, come up with fresh ideas, start again and stay positive when the pressure mounts. You will be communicating with senior stakeholders with very high expectations and we look for those focussed on outcomes and deliverables.

Qualifications
We need from you:

• IT delivery experience within an IT services/consulting company where you have delivered customer facing projects as part of an external IT service, in the role of day to day project management including staffing, milestones, cost management, deliverables.
• Excellent communications (up / down / peers)
• Experience in supporting contractual & commercial management and execution
• Executive relationship management
• Customer obsession
• Passion for technology: experience in either infrastructure, cloud and security is essential
• PMI PMP (or alike) Certified Project Manager desirable.

Benefits and Perks
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work:

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away.