Security Solution Area Specialists in Reading

Overview As a Security Sales Specialist, you will be a senior solution sales leader, selling the Microsoft security solutions to our largest enterprise customers. You will manage CxO level business relationships, understand customer challenges and priorities, identify security opportunities, build security solutions and business case to close the sales. You will do this with your deep industry and security knowledge, technical acumen and by leading a virtual team of resources across Microsoft and Partner ecosystem. You will spend 70% of your time on customer-facing activities driving sales conversations, 15% in internal meetings for collaboration and sales management and 15% for learning and development, i.e., learning about new security technologies, market and competitive trends, etc. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home. The Microsoft Security organization's objective of making the world a safer place has never been more important. As threats become more frequent and sophisticated, we must work to keep our customers safe through our Security Solutions. The Solution Specialist Unit team within the Microsoft Security organization is at the forefront of this effort, engaging directly with customers to contribute to their success.

With thousands of global security experts worldwide, $1 billion+ invested annually in security research and development, and the cutting-edge AI-based Security innovations, Microsoft is ideally placed to think outside of the box and protect customers and partners around the world. 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

• Be the security leader and expert for your assigned territory.
• Lead and plan for accounts across territories, conduct business analysis to pursue high-potential sales opportunities and manage the End-to-End Security business across the territory.
• Develop and maintain a strong pipeline of sales opportunities, ensuring that sales targets are met or exceeded.
• Build, own and manage CISO and other key C-stakeholders' relationships in your accounts driving awareness and excitement for Microsoft security platform value and influence long-term strategic direction.
• Understand customer budget, timeline, buying process and map out the key customer stakeholders.
• Understand customer cloud and security initiatives, competitive landscape as well as gaps between current and desired security posture.
• Capture the opportunity of customers' journey to balance the need for security and employee productivity with the right process and visibility.
• Demo and whiteboard the cloud security solutions and the relevant security architecture.
• Lead and orchestrate V-Team to drive an end-to-end value selling from discovery to demonstrating and proving business value.
• Engage security partners to help scale and accelerate the sales cycle while also ensuring a deployment plan is in place for accelerated deployment with partner added value services.
• Perform ROI and TCO analysis and leverage various commercial offers and programs to build a compelling business case accelerating negotiations and deal closure.
• Drive to exceed quarterly and yearly revenue targets and other sales goals.
• Manage sales hygiene via accurate forecasting and deal updates within sales CRM.
• Complete required training and obtain relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry.

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND technology-related sales or account management experience OR technology-related sales or account management experience.
• Solution or services sales experience.

The typical base pay range for this role across the United Kingdom is £74,400.00 - £105,900.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, colour, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

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