Commercial Executive - Strategic

• Lead commercial strategy and deal planning for strategic enterprise customers, aligning Microsoft solutions, licensing models, and commercial constructs with customer priorities, transformation objectives, and desired business outcomes.
• Own the commercial strategy for large-scale and complex renewals and strategic deals, developing multi-year deal structures that balance customer value, competitive positioning, revenue growth, profitability, and long-term partnership objectives.
• Develop pricing scenarios, proposals, licensing strategies, and contract structures that support customer value and sustainable commercial outcomes, including complex and customized commercial arrangements where appropriate.
• Partner closely with senior Account Executives and sales leaders to shape the overall account and negotiation strategy, bringing independent commercial judgment and proactively identifying opportunities to improve both customer and Microsoft business outcomes.
• Build a deep understanding of each strategic customer’s business priorities, contractual history, licensing environment, and decision-making process, and translate that understanding into effective renewal and commercial strategies.
• Lead and orchestrate complex commercial negotiations with customers and partners, including pricing, licensing, contractual terms, concessions, and other commercial considerations, engaging senior customer stakeholders when required.
• Coordinate across Account, Specialist, Finance, Legal, Deal Desk, Support, Operations, and Partner teams to resolve complex deal issues, secure required approvals, and drive agreements from early strategy through contract execution.
• Anticipate commercial, contractual, compliance, and execution risks in strategic deals, develop mitigation approaches, and guide internal stakeholders toward timely decisions and successful deal closure.
• Assess commercial, contractual, revenue, and profitability considerations while ensuring adherence to Microsoft policies, compliance requirements, approval frameworks, and applicable business standards.
• Drive strategic product and cloud opportunities as part of the overall commercial relationship, including renewals and opportunities across Azure consumption commitments, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Security, and new commerce models, where relevant to the customer strategy. 
• Act as a trusted commercial advisor to senior sales stakeholders and customers, bringing a strategic perspective that goes beyond transactional execution to help shape deals that strengthen long-term customer relationships and Microsoft’s business growth.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Law, Marketing, Finance, Communication, Education (or equivalent) or related field AND 7+ years of sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience; OR
• 10+ years of sales and negotiation experience; OR
• Equivalent experience.
• Fluent Japanese language skills and business-level English communication skills are required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Law, Marketing (or equivalent) AND 7+ years of sales and negotiation experience or related work; OR 
• Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Law, Marketing, Finance, Communication, Education (or equivalent) or related field AND 10+ years of sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience; OR 
• 15+ years of sales and negotiation experience; OR
• Equivalent experience.
• Sales experience in the information technology (IT) industry is preferred. 

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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