Digital Security Specialist

Do you enjoy working on a high-performing fast-paced sales team Are you insatiably curious and do you lean into uncertainty take risks and learn quickly from your mistakesIf so we are looking for you!

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Security has never been more top of mind for governments and businesses and Microsoft Security Solution is committed to keeping nations and citizens secure in an increasingly complex cyber landscape. As the largest security company in the world we are ideally placed to think outside the box to help our customers make the world a safer place. Following a year of incredible success we are excited to be expanding our team with diversified and driven new talent eager to make a difference in the fight against cybercrime. We are keen to hear your thoughts on how we can further achieve our purpose. Join our team and discover unique opportunities to grow develop and learn.

In the Security Specialists team we are looking for passionate experienced and credible specialist sellers with a drive for developing and winning strategic opportunities that deliver end-to-end security thought leadership driving significant customer value and enabling transformational customer outcomes. As a Security Specialist you will build digital transformation security strategies with customers collaborating across different groups inside the Customer environment to successfully enable them to be more secure. You will lead consultative customer conversations and collaborate on the planning orchestration and execution of end-to-end Security opportunities with internal stakeholders and partners to cross-sell and up-sell. This opportunity will allow you to learn and accelerate your career growth honing your solution sales and collaboration skills and deepening your end-to-end security expertise. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth honing your solution sales and collaboration skills and deepening your cloud expertise.

Sales Execution

• Engages in conversation with customers aligned to their industry and collaborates with account and partner team to drive and qualify new opportunities and build pipeline.
• Identifies customer businessand 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 coachesother team members in deal plan execution and implements close plans.

Business Value Selling

• Discover new Security opportunities by identifying and engaging with key business contacts partners understanding customers business and technology priorities governance decision and budget processes and landing the value proposition.

Scaling and Collaboration

• Applies role orchestrationmodel and navigates the Microsoft organization to bring the impact to the customer.
• Collaborates with Global Partner Solutions (GPS) identifies new partners develops joint proposals with partners and contributes to developing partner strategies.

Technical Expertise

• You will initiate Security discussions with business decision makers conversations share practices and key competitor knowledge across solution areas to make recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal. Leverages and shares competitor knowledge across solution areas as to inform decisions on pursuit or withdrawal.
• Leads conversations and sets up events within Microsoft mentors others and develops strategies for practice sharing initiates conversations with prospective customers/partners at events in one or more solution area(s).
• Collaborates with the compete SMEs internally to analyze competitor products solutions and/or services and implement strategies.

Sales Excellence

• You will collaborate with partners and resources to plan for accounts do compete plans forecasting and business analysis to pursue high-potential customers

Showcase a learning mentality

• Demonstrate a willingness to invest in your personal learning in the Cybersecurity arena.

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.

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Information Technology Business Administration or related field AND 5 years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 6 years of technology-related sales or account management experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Masters Degree in Business Administration (e.g. MBA) Information Technology or related field AND 5 years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR Bachelors Degree in Information Technology or related field AND 6 years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 8 years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
• 3 years of solution sales or consulting services sales experience
• Public Sector industry experience and understanding of the cybersecurity market.
• Experience selling complex cloud and security solutions; Microsoft Security portfolio knowledge preferred.
• Pipeline management forecasting territory planning and execution discipline.
• Relevant cloud/security certifications preferred SC 900 AZ 900 AI 900

Digital Solution Area Specialists IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $40.96 - $80.96 per hour. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $60.96 - $86.11 per hour.

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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.

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