Cloud & AI Specialist Sales Manager

In the Small, Medium Enterprise & Channel (SME&C) organization, we have set out to empower our customers through the unique value of the Microsoft cloud by building a globally led, digital-first scale organization aligned with partners. As part of the Americas SME&C Corporate team, you will support a dedicated set of customers in identifying and achieving their business objectives through best-in-class digital engagement and partner co-selling. You will also be able to work cross-collaboratively while living our shared SME&C Corporate priorities: Diversity and Inclusivity, Well-being, Sustainability, and Learning. If you have been described as customer obsessed and have a passion for digital-first solutions, we invite you to learn more about the SME&C Corporate organization and the value we deliver to our customers, partners, and one another, every day. Are you inspired to help customers empower their employees, maximize the employee experience, and do great work using the devices and apps they love? We are looking for someone to help customers who are undergoing significant changes to the way they work as we continue to shift into a truly hybrid work model. Microsoft is at the forefront of this transformation come and help organizations rethink aspects of their business in a way that sets them and their people up for success in this new world of work. As the Cloud & AI Specialist Sales Manager, you will be leading a team of Azure Specialists to provide and sell the best-in-class cloud service and platforms to our managed customers, building the momentum for digital transformation for our customers and partners as well as Microsoft itself. This person is a great sales coach and leader, has a challenger mentality, is savvy in sales-leadership practice and contributes with vision and flawless execution of solution sales across solution areas. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, honing your solution sales and collaboration skills, and deepening your cloud expertise.  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.

People Management Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model: Live our culture. Embody our values. Practice our leadership principles. Coach: Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries. Help the team adapt and learn. Care: Attract and retain great people. Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others. Coach and lead a team of Digital Specialists and solution professionals, fostering deep AI expertise, customer obsession, and outcome-based selling practices. Sales Excellence Participates in regular strategic planning for their assigned territory; review plans via rhythm-of-business (ROB) meetings and aligns the plans of their team across departments; guides team to align their approach with sales excellence team; engages with external executives to bring a more strategic perspective into the planning portion of account planning. Builds and transforms new markets by leveraging technical and industry expertise, partners, and resources; leads a team to explore business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and facilitate customer innovation. Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry; mentors/coaches the team on growing knowledge on sales or products and ensures the team complete training and obtain certifications as required. Oversees the end-to-end business across geographical regions; ensures their team meet sales