Specialist Sales Lead

At Microsoft, we empower every person and organization to achieve more through transformative innovation. We seek an exceptional executive—visionary, empathetic, and results-driven—to lead our Solutions Team Unit in Saudi Arabis, overseeing Solution Area sales leaders and their teams.In this role as a STU Leader Saudi Arabia, you will lead a team of Solution Area Leaders and Solution Engineering, partner with Enterprise customers to drive adoption of Microsoft Cloud&AI, AI Business Solutions and Security. By leading AI-driven transformation, you will enable institutions to engage faculty, staff, students, researchers, and clinicians in new, meaningful ways—redefining productivity, security, and collaboration.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.ResponsibilitiesSales LeadershipAs a sales leader, you should lead your team to develop solution strategies for driving and closing strategic opportunities, as well as identify new partners and evaluate partner capabilities. You should also guide your team to apply the orchestration model, support them in participating in Microsoft events, and act as the spokesman for Microsoft at external events.You will lead your team to develop solution strategies for driving and closing strategic opportunities, as well as identify new partners and evaluate partner capabilities. You will guide your team to apply the orchestration model and leverage stakeholders (e.g., Customer Success team unit, account-aligned team unit, Enterprise Partner organization) to build pipeline within the territoryYou will coach the team and/or other teams (e.g., ATU, CSU) on identifying and engaging decision makers and stakeholders to expand the relationship with customers/partners. Engage with C-Suite decision makers to support teams on opportunity discovery and acceleration. Represents the team internally at Microsoft as they engage other internal stakeholders.In addition to your leadership responsibilities, you should oversee the end-to-end business and guide your team regarding client performance in whitespace analysis. To stay up to date, you should complete required training and obtain relevant product and role certifications.Sales ExcellenceBuild and transform new market opportunities by leveraging technical and industry expertise, partners, and resources. Lead the team to explore business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and facilitate customer AI Led transformation.Guide the team in whitespace analysis and support the team to identify potential business in the assigned territory. Act as a thought leader and clear opinions and perspectives from business analysis.Lay out customer satisfaction long-term strategies. Proactively promote development of deep and influential relationships with client contacts. Guide their team on ensuring customer/partner satisfaction and facilitates the resolution of sales/delivery issues for strategic accounts. Establish standards for customer/partner experiences.Participate in regular strategic planning for their assigned territory. Reviews plans via Rhythm of Business (ROB) meetings and align the plans of their team across departments. Guide team to align their approach with sales excellence team. Engage with external executives to bring a more strategic perspective into the planning portion of account planning.QualificationsRequired Qualifications 11+ years technology-related sales leadership and account management experienceOR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration, Analytics, Data Science, or related field AND 8+ years technology-related sales or account management experience.8+ years people management experience.Preferred Qualifications16+ years technology-related sales leadership or account management experienceOR Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Analytics, Data Science, or related field AND 15+ years technology-related sales or account management experienceOR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration, Analytics, Data Science, or related field AND 12+ years technology-related sales or account management experience.13+ years services sales or account management experience.10+ years senior technical sales leadership experience in cloud services growth and consumption.10+ years people management experience, including managing high performance sales and technical-specialist teams, coaching solution specialist and account development strategies, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations.Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.