Sr. Account Executive - BFSI

Overview

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

Responsibilities

The Sr. Account Executive - FSI at Microsoft leads our most valued customers into the digital age. Embracing a challenger mindset, the successful Account Executive manages, orchestrates and leads their virtual teams and closes opportunities with customers that produce transformative business outcomes.

The Account Executive Will Be Responsible For The Following

Customer Outcomes Manager

• Understands customer drivers and business outcomes of digital transformation and contributes to Digital/transformation with the customer; initiates conversations with customers on digital transformation for assigned accounts. Ensures line-of-business wins are captured (e.g., testimonials) for referencing.

Sales Leadership Pivoting to Industry

• Develops an understanding of the customer's industry and the needs of each assigned account and identifies opportunities to drive optimizations and new digitalization solutions/ideas based on their needs and strategies; works on behalf of the customer.

Executes on Account Plan & Goals

• Manages and executes plans for multiple accounts to ensure Microsoft targets and customer business needs are met; coordinates with extended virtual teams and holds self and the team accountable for executing on plans and meeting customer needs; outlines revenue targets to deliver on account plans; orchestrates extended team and embraces partners to scale business; ensures sales consumption and adoption goals on target

Qualifications

Experiences Required: Education, Key Experiences, Skills and Knowledge:

• 12+ years of selling to or consulting with enterprise customers along with expertise of selling into Public Sector Bank, NBFCs, Insurance Companies and Small Finance Banks in South India. Equally considered will be 5+ years of experience driving digital transformation from within the enterprise customers.
• Bachelor’s degree or MBA preferred; or equivalent experience.
• Experience to lead multi-cultural, diverse and remote teams across different disciplines.
• Proven ability to understand customer needs, create and deliver customized, customer-focused pitches and solutions.
• Effectively navigate through ambiguity and complexities related to client management.
• Embody “we-before-me” and the “customer first” mindset that delivers long term success over short term returns.
• Solid knowledge of one industry required (i.e. Banking, Financial Services, Insurance).
• The ability to adapt one's behavior to different people and situations, while recognizing, acknowledging and understanding different perspectives.

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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