Enterprise Sales Director - Financial Services

As the Enterprise Sales Director for the Financial Services Team , you will be a Manager of, Account Executives and Account Technology Strategists for our US Banking Industry vertical segment.  You will build the momentum of digital transformation for customers, partners and Microsoft, including creating and fostering long-term relationships.   

Leveraging your large, multi-functional team across the breadth of the Microsoft product portfolio, engage at the most senior levels of your customer and deliver industry-relevant solutions to help the customer adopt and embrace business transformation.

With a proven history of driving growth in market share, achieving sales targets, customer obsession, and partner collaboration, this role will leverage your extensive customer network and

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.

Responsibilities

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.

• Leverages industry and market expertise, proactively leading teams to identify solutions to drive new opportunities and strategies in alignment with customer needs. Establishes a technology-driven professional presence in the market and represents Microsoft as a thought leader who can articulate connections between Microsoft solutions to relevant business contexts with industry and market leaders (e.g., speaking at external events, sitting on boards). Pursues industry of choice to create more strategic relevance and value with customers. Coaches teams to consider global perspectives in best practices in local trade, regulatory, and policy environments across geographic areas. Coaches managers and teams to tailor customer engagement for specific industries with relevant customer references and socializes best practices across their organization. Identifies and creates customer references for landmark successes in one or more strategic industries to develop a competitive advantage and to articulate ability to deliver customer value to achieve outcomes. Leverages experiences and expertise with customers across industry to influence the development of programs that help scale and accelerate successful engagements.

• Defines expectations and sets strategies for teams to leverage drivers of Digital & Artificial Intelligence (AI) transformation relevant to their customers and partners across business units. Acts as a thought leader in optimally leveraging transformation across solution areas. Consults with customers and internal/external Partners to ensure successful value realization in delivery of solutions to customers. Drives and coaches teams to orchestrate across units and Partners to leverage and accelerate innovative transformation opportunities. Coaches managers to ensure internal partners are educated on industry trends and solutions. Develops and shares strategies for expanding relationships across customers' lines of business that enable innovative solutions, deliver business value, and create market growth. Coaches and supports teams to leverage industry experts within MS to identify and execute on transformation opportunities.

• Leads and coaches teams on the development and implementation of scalable go-to-market for maximizing revenue, consumption, and growth across solution areas. Shares best practices and holds managers and teams accountable for leveraging market-specific insights and highlighting solutions that solve business and technology challenges. Coaches teams to identify and proactively engage influencers to drive Microsoft's perspective across accounts and to utilizing available programs to drive customers to expand budget. Sets the expectations for and enables teams to be self-sufficient in leveraging digital assets and data insights, and exhausting all opportunities to develop relationships with new and existing customers.