Solution Area Specialist (Data&AI) Full-time

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Responsibilities (Text Only)

– Solution sales expert within our sales organization working with our most important customers.
– Collaborate with a team of technical, partner, and consulting resources to advance the sales process and exceed quarterly Data & AI revenue targets in your assigned accounts.

– Sales Execution
– Engage in conversation with customers aligned to their industry and collaborates with account and partner team to drive and qualify new opportunities and build pipeline
– Identify customer business and technology readiness, proactively builds external stakeholders’ mapping, implements strategies to accelerate the closing of deals, contributes input on strategies to drive and close prioritized opportunities, coaches junior team members in deal plan execution, and implements close plans.

– Scaling and Collaboration
– Apply role orchestration model and navigates the Microsoft organization to bring the best impact to the customer. Also collaborates with Global Partner Solutions (GPS), identifies new partners, develops joint proposals with partners, and contributes to developing partner strategies.

– Technical Expertise
– Leverage and share competitor knowledge across solution areas as a subject matter expert to inform decisions on pursuit or withdrawal. Leads conversations
– Set up events within Microsoft, mentor others and develops strategies for best practice sharing, initiates conversations with prospective customers/partners at events, acts as a subject matter expert in one or more solution area(s). Collaborates with the ‘compete’ SMEs internally to analyze competitor products, solutions, and/or services and implement strategies.

– Delivers Results Through Teamwork
– Drives the execution of projects, partners and collaborates with other teams on related deliverables, and leverages others in relevant work streams.

Qualifications (Text Only)

– Required/Minimum Qualifications
– Language proficiency in English and Korean
– 15+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
– OR Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 12+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience
– OR equivalent experience.
– Preferred with Certification of Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) or AI Fundamentals (AI-900) Certified or equivalent knowledge.

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