Responsibilities

• Customer First Mindset - engage with and enable our customers and key decision-makers to deliver a connected customer experience and drive customer satisfaction through digital sales excellence, empowered by world-class data, marketing systems, and platforms.  
• Meet operational standards and maintain reporting accuracy for key center metrics – including response rates, prospecting, activity tracking, pipeline conversion, velocity, and accuracy. Adopt program processes, procedures, and tools to provide accurate on-time reporting that maximizes attainment of strategic goals and delivers competitive business insights, trends, and analysis. 
• Collaborate, communicate and share best practices, learnings, and customer insights with stakeholder groups to elevate team capabilities and drive change based on insights.   
• Work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and dynamic teaming environment with field specialists, technical resources, and partner teams to effectively manage customer opportunities, deliver connected customer experiences, achieve customer outcomes with Microsoft's leading cloud technologies, and accelerate value across the customer lifecycle.  
• Effectively turn digital signals, qualified Account-based marketing leads, and customer insights into opportunities and qualified revenue pipeline for large/global enterprise customers across industries. 

• Stay motivated and maintain a positive approach to problem-solving, learning, and development in a rapidly growing business with evolving market conditions and customer needs.  
• Develop a strong understanding of your customers, their security challenges, and strategic business objectives to identify their core security needs and connect them with our Security solutions.  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications 

• Extensive sales and negotiation experience; OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) or related field AND sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience.  
• Fluency in German is essesntial

Additional or Preferred Qualifications  

• Strong sales and negotiation experience; OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) or related field AND sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience; OR Master's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) AND sales and negotiation experience or related work.  
• Experience selling cloud services and/or security solutions to large/global enterprise customers 
• Proven self-starter able to work towards delivery of goals as best practices are being developed 
• Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills 
• Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs. 
• Knowledge of enterprise software solutions and cloud platform competitor landscape. 
• Demonstrate the business value of Microsoft's solutions with an understanding of Microsoft's strategies and products relative to major Microsoft competitors. 
• Ability to maintain a high level of productivity, manage competing priorities and work effectively with high levels of autonomy and self-direction in a fast-paced, collaborative, and dynamic teaming environment 
• Experience in building and maintaining Executive level (CXO) stakeholder relationships and leading value proposition conversations aligned to customer priorities and outcomes.    
• Capacity to learn and retain knowledge about systems, processes, products, and services quickly and accurately.  
• Build relationships, collaborate, and influence across organizations, functions, and stakeholder groups. 
• Operational and sales excellence discipline, including planning, opportunity qualification and creation, stakeholder communication, services/partner engagement and sales excellence practices including pipeline and opportunity management. 
• A desire to learn, grow, and drive change. 
• Fundamental understanding of security threats, solutions, security tools, and network technologies​. 
• Experience selling to or consulting with security technology solutions