Microsoft

Business Applications Specialist-Microsoft Dynamics

Posted on: 5 Mar 2021

New York City, New York

Job Description

We are currently looking for Dynamics Specialists to join our teams across our various business groups: Enterprise, Small Medium & Corporate, as well as Regulated Industries. These sellers will support either our Finance & Operations business (ERP) or our Customer Engagement business (CRM). By applying to this role, you will be considered for multiple opportunities within Microsoft across the United States.

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. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

As a Dynamics Specialist, you will be a solution sales leader within our sales organization working with our most important customers. You will lead a virtual team of technical, partner and consulting resources to advance the sales process and achieve/exceed solution sales and usage/consumption targets for related workloads in your assigned accounts. You will help customers evaluate their applications, recommend solutions that meet their requirements, remove roadblocks to deployment and drive customer satisfaction.

We have three Specialist roles in our Business Applications Business

* Customer Engagement Specialist-CRM
* Finance & Operations Specialist-ERP
* Managed Consulting Services Specialist: You will secure strategic new business wins for Microsoft Consulting Services

The reinvention of business process represents a bold bet for Microsoft in accelerating our growth in commercial cloud services. The mission of Dynamics 365 is to help our customer digitally transform their businesses to drive new sources of revenue, create new and engaging ways to serve their customers, and to transform the way in which their business runs to

drive new levels of profitability for their organization.

The Dynamics Specialist is an accomplished sales leader with a proven track record of

driving complex digital transformation using ERP or CRM solutions

The Dynamics Specialist leverages advanced business transformation skills honed at management consultancies and their extensive network of C-level customer and industry relationships to consistently exceed quota with multimillion-dollar wins.

She/He will use their leadership status in industry, professional groups, LinkedIn network, and extended team to create shared visions, influence key stakeholders and lead virtual teams to drive transformation.

Responsibilities:

* Develop and maintain customer account plans for all the accounts in your designated territory which includes white space analysis, current customer solution and technology footprint/landscape, customer pains, competitive landscape, and industry trends.
* Develop deep trusted adviser relationships with Business Decision Makers by actively understanding customer business pains, requirements, strategic growth objectives, industry trends and providing business-value-outcome-based solutions
* Develop, maintain, and document comprehensive business plans resulting from joint customer planning and discovery workshops which address customer strategic priorities for digital transformation
* Discover, assess, evaluate, and challenge strategic customer objectives by translating them into digital transformation opportunities that leverage Microsoft Dynamics 365
* Create and drive demand for qualified digital transformation opportunities in our enterprise accounts that can benefit from running their business on Dynamics 365
* Address key change scenarios with quantifiable business value outcomes and justification.
* Develop and lead account strategy, in the sophisticated and complex business environments of our enterprise accounts.
* Be a disciplined operator by maintaining a rolling pipeline, keeping it current and in accurate stages. Leverage marketing, inside sales, partners and your relationship network to build pipeline
* Support and leverage all sales promotions, sales events and sales strategies to close opportunities
* Develop, drive, manage and lead a discipled opportunity execution plan with a diverse pursuit team of experts, SMEs, pre-sales resources and partners geographically dispersed and virtual both internal and external to Microsoft including our Global Systems Integrator partners * Create compelling business value outcome backed proposals, negotiate terms and contracts with successful close
* Own and deliver on revenue targets for Dynamics 365 for your territory/accounts

Qualifications:

We are currently hiring Dynamics Specialists across a variety of teams with various levels of skills and experiences required. Below maps the minimum required qualifications to be considered for these positions.

Required Qualifications:

* 3+ years' experience working with corporate, pubic sector or enterprise customers directly with business applications technologies OR at least 2+ years selling software solutions to corporate/enterprise customers

Preferred Qualifications:

* Solution sales for ERP, CRM or similar business applications
* Selling software-as-a-service or cloud-based ERP business applications to enterprise customers.
* Digital transformation management consulting experience with leading international firms
* Developing demand for multimillion-dollar digital transformation opportunities in large enterprise accounts.
* Developing and leading account strategy and opportunity execution plans in complex business environments in large enterprise account targets
* Driving and leading sales processes across account planning, opportunity planning, deal negotiation, customer decision frameworks, evaluation plans and engaging in sophisticated business case discussions.
* Carrying and exceeding sales quotas by driving and closing enterprise deals.
* Proposal preparation, negotiating terms and contracts for large multi-million-dollar digital transformation opportunities.
* Senior level pursuit leadership varied experience in selling ERP business applications with a strong track record of new account development, territory building and quota performance.
* Assessing strategic customer objectives, digital transformation opportunity discovery, key improvement scenarios, and an ability to measure and present incremental and new economic value.
* Leading, partnering and orchestrating with virtual teams of experts, SMEs composed of industry, engineering, solution, technical, licensing and legal team members.
* Disciplined operator with demonstrated accuracy in forecasting business and maintaining CRM pipeline hygiene.
* Certification and / or deep experience in business value selling.
* Demonstrated passion and commitment to customer success.

Desired Skills:

* Demonstrated success in large multimillion-dollar pursuits, multi-year engagements and competitor disruption and displacement
* Proven consultative business management consulting skills, including the ability to articulate a clear, concise return on investment value statement
* Proven solution envisioning skills
* Account planning and execution leadership skills
* Ability to sell C-Level and across both IT and business units as a trusted advisor
* Ability to sell both an application and deployment of a platform
* Strong time management skills - able to maintain a high level of productivity, manage multiple competing priorities, and work effectively under the pressure of time constraints in a fast-paced, complex, collaborative, and team-oriented environment
* Excellent organizational agility, able to coordinate across multiple stakeholders: Marketing, Engineering, Licensing, Legal, Field leadership to win
* Ability to identify and prioritize opportunities that will drive digital transformation for a client
* Ability to position long term strategic solutions vs. the competition
* Problem solver and ability to work in fast-changing environment and manage ambiguity

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Microsoft

Redmond, WA

Microsoft Corporation develops, licenses, and supports software, services, devices, and solutions worldwide. Its company’s Productivity and Business Processes segment offers Office 365 commercial products and services, such as Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Office 365 consumer services, including Skype, Outlook.com, and OneDrive; LinkedIn online professional network; and Dynamics business solutions comprising financial management, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and analytics applications for small and medium businesses, large organizations, and divisions of enterprises.

The company’s Intelligent Cloud segment licenses server products and cloud services, such as SQL Server, Windows Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related CALs, as well as Azure, a cloud platform; and enterprise services, including premier support and Microsoft consulting services to assist customers in developing, deploying, and managing Microsoft server and desktop solutions, as well as provides training and certification to developers and IT professionals.

Its More Personal Computing segment offers Windows OEM, volume, and other non-volume licensing of the Windows operating system; patent licensing, Windows Internet of Things, and MSN display advertising; Surface, PC accessories, and other devices; Xbox hardware and software and services; and Bing and Bing Ads search advertising. It markets its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers; and online and Microsoft retail stores.

Microsoft Corporation has collaboration with E.ON, NIIT Technologies Ltd., CUNA Mutual Group, and Mastercard Incorporated; strategic alliance with Nielsen Holdings plc and PAREXEL International Corp.; and a strategic partnership with SK Telecom Co., Ltd. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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