As a Technology Specialist – Low-Code , 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 Technology Specialists and our Customer Success team. You will additionally assist the Microsoft Business Applications Sales Executive in identifying, driving and successfully landing pipeline and customer solutions for the Low-Code application category.
You will learn how Microsoft’s low-code Power Platform is changing the way companies do business and how Microsoft's solutions are empowering success.
Microsoft’s 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
Develop and maintain deep functional and technical product knowledge and business process expertise
Participate in all necessary readiness activities that empower technical, functional and business process readiness
Attend community workload training and enablement functions
Demonstrate business value-led presales expertise to accelerate deal velocity, value and win rates
Participate in discovery and Envisioning Workshop sessions to identify customer-centric win themes focused on business value
Secure customer agreement to solution design aligned with customer-agreed digital transformation journey
Deliver a compelling presentation aligned to the designed solution and business value
Qualifications
Experience:
Minimum 3-5+ years’ of applicable Low-Code workload expertise with one or more of the following: technical and business process presales, post-sales consulting or relevant company/customer IT application implementation or management
Driving and designing a solution strategy as part of the overall opportunity lifecycle
Identifying, driving and successfully landing pipeline and customer solutions in collaboration with sales leaders and team members
Extensive collaboration with technical pursuit teams designing cloud-based customer solutions
Success working with customers/stakeholders in presales or consulting engagements related to business applications workloads
Proven success demonstrating differentiated solution value and competitive advantage
Delivering customer-facing technical workload demonstrations to enterprise decision makers
Desirable but not required – workload certifications/degrees
Deep understanding of:
Business solutions workload expertise by leveraging Low-Code application experience in one or more of the following: Sales, Marketing, Service, Supply Chain, and/or Finance and how these solutions help customers achieve their desired business outcomes
Business value selling methodologies and practices mapped to customer persona pains/issues to uncover customer’s stated and unstated needs
Commercial cloud offerings, ideally Microsoft’s cloud platform, as well as competitive knowledge of other business applications solutions and related ecosystems
Desired skills:
Excellent presentation and communications skills across various customer stakeholders; experienced storyteller.
Customer-centric mindset with demonstrated passion for delivering customer value
Experience with sales propensity tools for pipeline and account success planning
Ability to bring innovative technical solution ideas to customer problems
Experienced problem solver able to thrive in a fast-paced environment
Growth mindset, insatiably curious, always learning and welcoming of challenges for the opportunity to grow
Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience
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