OverviewIn this role, you'll be at the forefront of AI growth and disruption, guiding customers through their AI journey and helping them achieve their strategic goals. You'll ensure customers can fully harness the transformative potential as we lead the charge in AI transformation As trusted advisors, we help customers modernize their infrastructure, optimize operations, and drive innovation with Cloud & AI's cutting-edge AI capabilities. Whether it's migrating and modernizing estates to be AI-ready, accelerating innovation with AI agents and platforms, empowering development teams with AI, or unifying and modernizing data estates, we help customers build technology with AI to stay ahead of the competition. If you're ready to make a significant impact and drive AI transformation, we invite you to join us and be part of this exciting journey At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team - one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry's most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation. SME&C is more than a sales organization - it's a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you'll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do. If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how SME&C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business. As a Cloud & AI Platform Digital Solution Area Specialist you will be a solution sales leader within our mid-market sales organization working with our most important customers, to unlock value from the Azure platform. You will collaborate with a team of technical, partner, and consulting resources to advance the sales process and exceed quarterly Cloud & AI revenue targets in your assigned accounts. 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. ResponsibilitiesCollaborating with One Commercial Partner (OCP) and partners, you cross-sell, up-sell, and co-sell, applying the orchestration model to proactively drive deal closure by identifying and aligning internal stakeholders and leveraging and expanding relationships with partners. You proactively provide analysis of the competitive landscape in the supported solution area and decide whether to pursue or withdraw. Additionally, you contribute to exploring business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and support customer innovation.You manage and/or orchestrate sales and delivery success through the account team and pursuit team, engaging with internal and external stakeholders on business planning and rhythm-of-business (ROB) meetings to review and plan for assigned accounts. You collaborate with internal teams and partners to conduct business analysis to pursue high-potential customers and develop a target list of potential business. You manage the end-to-end business of the assigned territory.You engage in conversations with customers to introduce how to enable digital transformation in the customer's industry and have a fundamental understanding of customers' business to initiate conversations in a single solution area, in collaboration with partners and services.QualificationsQualifications
Required / minimum qualificationsBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or a closely related field, or equivalent practical experience.Solid, demonstrable background in technology-related sales or account management, with evidence of owning customer relationships and delivering strong commercial outcomes.Well-established experience in technology-related sales or account management, including stewardship of strategic accounts and complex deal structures.Strong solution - or services-led sales experience, showing the ability to design and land end-to-end cloud and AI solutions, influence customer strategy, and effectively orchestrate internal and partner teams.Fluency with the Swedish language skill.Additional / preferred qualificationsMaster's Degree in Business Administration (MBA), Information Technology, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent advanced experience.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.