Microsoft Nigeria recruitment for a Graduate Services Account Executive

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Microsoft is recruiting to fill the job position in Lagos, Nigeria below:


Job Title: Services Account Executive
Job #: 991499
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Purpose

• The Services Account Executive (AE) is a trusted advisor to Microsoft's Enterprise customers.

• Understand and anticipate your customer's business needs, and offer the right Microsoft solutions to meet those needs.
• Orchestrate the Microsoft virtual team, including partners where appropriate, that supports you in selling and supporting your customer(s).
• Meet your revenue and priority targets, maintaining a healthy pipeline to ensure appropriate velocity and coverage to meet quota, and providing accurate forecasts.
• Demonstrate the business value of Microsoft solutions within your customer(s), focusing on how we can help them achieve their desired business outcomes, enabled by digital transformation
• Ensure that your customers are using and/or consuming the Microsoft services and products they have purchased.

• Degree in BA or B.Sc.
• 5+ years of experience in solution sales.

• Executes recognized sales strategies and processes including: account planning; pipeline & opportunity management & forecasting; & deal strategy, close planning & stakeholder management
• Understands market-specifics for at least 1 sector/industry 

• Delivers value in Customer relationships, based on customer business outcomes and priorities
• Demonstrates listening and consultative role-modelling using story-telling
• Proactively seeks and leverages diverse organizational perspectives to bring together creative, relevant customer solutions that drive business impact.
• Creates, and sustains partnerships and virtual teams with other Microsoft and Partner stakeholder groups to provide value for customers.
• Builds and sustains long-term and profitable customer relationships, successfully balancing customer satisfaction and revenue growth
• Develops strong relationships with Business Decision Makers and Technical Decision Makers throughout the customer's organization
• Communicates clearly and persuasively.
• Ensures proactive customer planning, championing the importance of joint planning both internally (across the internal virtual sales teams) and with the customer
• Leverages business model, industry and vertical expertise to create plans and solutions