Microsoft's Commercial Solution Area sets the sales strategy, lead technical sales, and operates as a hub for the Commercial Solution Areas and Support Services that power the Microsoft Cloud. Our team of GBBs (Global Black Belts) are specialized sales professionals focused on applying depth and breadth to complex customer deals across Solution Areas. We work closely with other Microsoft teams and partners, especially Account teams, Customer Success, Marketing, and Engineering to ensure those solutions meet our customers’ needs.

　　Microsoft Specialist Global Black Belt Azure HPC, AI Infrastructure is a senior solution sales professional within our enterprise sales organization with a special focus to drive customer digital transformation agenda through the adoption of Azure HPC+AI Infrastructure solutions in specific industries: Finance, as well as Automotive, Manufacturing (incl. Semiconductors), Energy, or Health & Life Sciences.

　　Responsibilities

　　Lead and challenge customers with clear strategic vision of digital transformation.

　　Drive Executive conversation both in and outside IT.

　　Growing the YOY Azure HPC+AI Infrastructure Azure consumption revenue in your aligned industry / sales area by:

　　Successfully winning HPC, AI Infrastructure workloads and projects in your sales area /Industry through demonstrating value of our specialized infrastructure to drive large models at scale.

　　Enlarging footprint and cloud reach through co-selling with Microsoft Partners.

　　Build IP and scale sales best practices and accelerate across enterprise sales teams.

　　Expanding and deepening relationships and satisfaction of customers using Azure High Performance Computing platform or running large AI model at scale.

　　Be the leader of a global virtual team, driving resource management and execution.

　　You will be the supporting the key sales leader and influencer in shaping customer decisions to buy, build and transform new markets and lead transformational shifts in our customers. You will support the Microsoft team to win solution sales opportunities. Develop, communicate and provide high business impact solutions that enable digital transformation through High Performance Computing and AI Infrastructure.

　　You will influence the go to market strategy by providing feedback to sales, marketing, and engineering on current and future product requirements and sales blockers. You will maintain and develop a positive Customer and Partner Experience (CPE). You will develop thought leadership in your field, speaking internally and externally.

　　Qualifications

　　Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)

　　5+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience

　　OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 4+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.

　　Industry expertise: 5+ years industry HPC or AI experience in at least one of the following industries – Finance, as well as Automotive, Manufacturing (inc. Semiconductors), Energy, or Health & Life Sciences

　　OR Public Sector

　　Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

　　Sales Leader: Disciplined in business-management, meeting sales targets and operational standards. Mentors other sellers towards a “challenger mentality” by prompting them to engage the customer early with new insights. Demonstrated experience influencing senior stakeholders within customer and own organization.

　　Solution Expert: Deep understanding of unique solution area value, key areas of differentiation, and knowledge to create industry-centric use cases for the solution.

　　Business Value Seller: Proven record of effective account management, particularly demonstrating coupling business acumen with technology knowledge, to connect customer business challenges to their technology decisions and; coaching the customer through business case creation, approval, and stakeholder buy-in.

　　Audience Credibility: Has credibility with key decision makers within our customers. Ability to influence target decision makers such as Business Decision Makers, Operational Technology Leaders, Data Scientist, Researchers and HPC SMEs.

　　Technical Acumen: Experienced at driving solutions to full production roll out and solving technical challenges encountered through the project implementation. Strong synthesizer of tools, services and resources with own expertise to build complete end to end solutions. Able to demonstrate the value of technology, respond to RFPs and RFIs, conduct initial technology evaluation with the customer.

　　Indusrty solution knowledge. Strong knowledge of the HPC-related enterprise solutions, partner ecosystem, and platform competitor landscape (e.g. Risk, IFRS, Actuarial, as well as AVOps, CAE, EDA, Reservoir, Seismic, Drug Discovery, Genome Sequencing, etc.)

　　Certification in the following technologies preferred: Azure, AWS, Linux, Microsoft, VMware

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