Job Description

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 on pace to be Microsoft\'s next $100 billion-dollar 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: Diversity and Inclusivity, Wellbeing, Sustainability, 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.As a Technology Specialist \xe2\x80\x93 Finance and Supply Chain, you are a functional business process and technical workload expert within the Microsoft Business Applications enterprise sales organization working with our most important customers. You play a key role in the total sales cycle by helping them with their end-to-end business transformation needs through envisioning, designing and demonstrating solutions mapped to business value within the area of your workload expertise. Executing with excellence you will collaborate across the sales opportunity journey with the Business Applications sales team, Microsoft partners and ISVs, other Technical Specialists and our Customer Success team. You will additionally assist the Dynamics Specialist in identifying, driving and successfully landing pipeline and customer solutions for the Finance and Supply Chain applications category. You will learn how Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain solutions are changing the way companies do business and are empowering success. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, honing your solution sales and collaboration skills, and deepening your cloud expertise. [This role is flexible in that you can work up to [50% / up to 100% from home / This role is Microsoft onsite only].Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s 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:Scale Customer Engagements

• You will engage with customer technical decision makers and anticipate customer needs and issues proactively through data gathering.
• Engage in partner sell-with scenarios by contributing to the facilitation of technical engagements and partnering with colleagues to manage the sales process as well as share competitive insights from customer sessions with colleagues and escalate/resolve competitive situations to influence compete strategies.
• You will provide strategic, technical input based on Microsoft capability to contribute to strategy development, leveraging partner and internal teams.
• You will identify and apply existing demonstration assets and oversees demonstrations (e.g., architectural design sessions [ADS], proof of concept [POC] sessions) of solutions based on specific Microsoft products through initial engagements. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove capabilities and integration into customer environment. Reviews partner demonstrations and provides feedback to ensure alignment with Microsoft standards.
• You will build your readiness plan and proactively identify learning gaps. Grows domain knowledge and practice expertise by communicating with customers, partners and senior colleagues to expand knowledge of architecture.
• You will conduct group training or one-to-many events (e.g., workshops, Webinars) or leverage existing scale enablement programs to present and educate customers and colleagues on the capabilities and benefits across Microsoft solutions/products.
• You will monitor and respond to internal and external tech community posts, attend community calls, sessions, hackathons, etc., and act as a mentor for your technology area and contribute and participate in Customer Executive Briefing Center sessions

Qualifications:Required/Minimum QualificationsRelevant certifications from Microsoft or competitive platforms AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

• OR Bachelor\'s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR equivalent experience

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting, or related experience
• 4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management
• Certification in relevant (Microsoft or industry) technologies or disciplines (e.g., Microsoft Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture)

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the .

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