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Microsoft

Builds workplace software, PCs and cloud services

Cloud & AI Solution Sales Specialist - Azure, Construction Services

Account ManagementPosted on Nov 11
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Minimum of 3 years of sales experience, including hands-on experience in solution sales and account management within the technology industry.
  • Proven track record of consistently achieving or exceeding quarterly and annual revenue targets.
  • Experience managing complex sales cycles, negotiations, and strategic engagements with large enterprise customers.
  • Demonstrated experience managing territories using MCEM or comparable end-to-end enterprise sales methodologies.
  • Practical knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including infrastructure, data, AI platform, and application modernization capabilities, with the ability to articulate business and technical value to diverse stakeholders.
  • Experience developing differentiated customer value propositions based on competitive analysis and cross-solution positioning strategies.
  • Executive presence with proven experience presenting business cases and strategic recommendations to C-level stakeholders.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise AI transformation, cloud modernization, and business value realization frameworks.

Responsibilities

  • Engage Construction and Real Estate customers through industry-specific business discussions, identify strategic business challenges, and position Azure solutions to create and convert opportunities into revenue growth.
  • Develop a deep understanding of customers’ business context, industry challenges, and strategic objectives; use open-ended questions to help customers articulate their business needs and opportunities.
  • Deliver value propositions to business and technical decision-makers through whiteboarding sessions, solution demonstrations, and solution storytelling.
  • Build business cases using the Azure Pricing Calculator and ROI and TCO tools to accelerate customer investment decisions and executive sponsorship.
  • Collaborate with account teams, Solution Engineers, Customer Success, service teams, and partners to develop and execute closing strategies for strategic opportunities.
  • Analyze account plans, installed solution portfolios, and consumption patterns to refine data-driven sales strategies and drive quarterly revenue attainment.
  • Expand pipeline and accelerate deal velocity through Azure Marketplace and co-sell initiatives with the Microsoft ecosystem.
  • Assess implementation complexity and delivery risks early, and recommend a delivery model leveraging Unified Support, ISD, FDE, Cloud Accelerate Factory, and strategic partners.
  • Work with GBBs and specialist teams to analyze competitive products, services, and market positioning.
  • Develop and execute differentiated strategies leveraging Microsoft solutions across Infrastructure, Data, AI Agents, GitHub, Security, and other areas.
  • Monitor competitive developments and share competitive intelligence with account teams.
  • Manage territory execution using the Microsoft Customer Engagement Methodology, evaluate opportunity quality throughout the sales lifecycle, and execute closing plans.
  • Develop and execute territory strategies aligned with Azure Infrastructure Modernization, AI Platforms, Data Estate Transformation, and App Modernization.
  • Manage the sales pipeline from early-stage qualification through closure while maintaining forecast accuracy and executive visibility.
  • Assess customer business priorities and technology readiness to develop demand-generation and engagement strategies for executive stakeholders, including C-level leaders.
  • Quantify business outcomes such as cost optimization, productivity improvements, decision intelligence, new revenue generation, and faster development or operations cycles.
  • Define and scope Proof of Concepts and establish pathways from customer commitment to consumption growth.
  • Nominate customers for programs such as Azure Frontier Accelerate and Cloud Accelerate Factory, and share best practices across the sales community.
  • Generate new pipeline through proactive outbound prospecting, executive briefing programs, industry events, and strategic customer engagement.
  • Collaborate with strategic partners to create business opportunities and expand revenue across the broader ecosystem.

About the Company

Microsoft

Builds workplace software, PCs and cloud services

Microsoft builds workplace software, operating systems and cloud infrastructure for consumers, businesses and government agencies, from small organizations to global enterprises. Microsoft 365 combines Word and Excel with Teams communication and Copilot AI features, while Windows runs PCs and Surface supplies the company's own computers. Azure rents computing capacity, storage and databases to build and run web applications. Microsoft also sells Xbox consoles and games, collecting revenue through software licenses, subscriptions, usage charges and product sales. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Redmond, WA
Founded
1975

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