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Job Category: Sales
Location: Nigeria, Abuja
Job ID: 770431
Division: Sales
ATS - Account Technology Strategist
The Account Technology Strategist (ATS) is part of the Microsoft Technical Sales Profession, aimed to:
‘Enable the Business & IT goals of our Customers, by delivering Business value with the Microsoft Platform, thus securing long-termSustainable Growth for Microsoft!’
How does the ATS role add value?
The ATS is an Customer aligned Relationship Resource with the following core responsibilities:
1. Gather a 360° Customer Insightprofile, incl. IO, IT and Application Platform, and the Partner and Competitive landscape.
2. Build Trusted Technology Relationships with the TDM, in particular with the CIO, CSO, CTO and their direct reports.
3. Drive Realized Platform Value, by driving a Deployment and Adoption Strategy, and orchestrating Resources from theSTU (SSP/TSP), Microsoft Services and Partners for Execution.
4. Initiate Growth by Competitive Displacement, by building a qualified competitive pipeline, initiating Capability Led (IO) Conversations, supporting Application Platform (BGA/AGA) Engagements, and leveraging the Microsoft Account Planning process.
The ATS has 3 distinct sales motions:
1. Deployment: The ATS owns the Deployment Strategy, and drives a customer validated Deployment Plan, supported by STU, MicrosoftServices and Partners.
2. Capability Led Selling (IO): The ATS initiates the IO Conversation (leveraging IO Discovery) as a Trusted Technology Relation to the TDM (in particular the CIO, CSO and CTO), and supports STU resources (SSP/TSP) in driving competitive opportunities.
3. Application Platform Selling (APO): The ATS supports Application Platform BGA and AGA engagements, owned and orchestrated by AM and SSP Platform.
How is the ATS role unique from other roles?
The ATS role is unique in:
a. Its focus on Long-term Sustainable Growth.
b. Its in-depth knowledge of Customers’ IT environments.
c. Its ability to build long-term Trusted Technology Relationships, and have solid and meaningful strategic Technology conversations.
d. Its broad knowledge of the entire Microsoft Enterprise Platform, and the ability to map ITto the Customer Business needs and priorities.
e. Its ability to qualify and initiate competitive opportunities and work with Microsoft and/or Partner resources to grow the Microsoft Infrastructure and Application Platform.
The ATS is responsible to build a trusted relationship with customers, realize Platform Value resulting in long-term sustainable growth. Key driver is to make sure customers deploy and adopt the Microsoft Platform and get true Business Value.
The ATS is a relationship resourcealigned with local and/or global customers.
The impact an individual ATS has islimited to the customers that theATS is assigned to and as the ATSis a long-term resource, tenure inrole and assigned customers is advised.
On a WW scale the WW ATS community is a key resource (like no other role within Microsoft) tosecure a long-term sustainable business for Microsoft!
As a relationship resource the ATS should aspire to be seen by the customer as a trusted advisor; building credibility by driving IO maturity conversations, IT roadmap strategies and relevant mapping to existing (sometimes competitive) IT infrastructure , business needs, priorities and strategies
Job Requirements:
3-5 years of related experience
Bachelor’s Degree
Sales and Partner management, complex sales training (i.e. Miller Hyman, Spin, Michael Bosworth, Holden, etc.), sales methodologies (equivalent to MSSP),
Broad evangelism through events (presentation skills),
Effective marketing tactics, CRM (Siebel or other).
Technical sales or consulting position within an IT consulting or Services company such as Cisco, Accenture, IBM Global Services, HP,Cap Gemini or equivalent.
Technical sales or consulting position in a competing Software Company, particularly IBM or Oracle.
CIO or IT Ops position in a medium to large Company.
Location: Nigeria, Abuja
Job ID: 770431
Division: Sales
ATS - Account Technology Strategist
The Account Technology Strategist (ATS) is part of the Microsoft Technical Sales Profession, aimed to:
‘Enable the Business & IT goals of our Customers, by delivering Business value with the Microsoft Platform, thus securing long-termSustainable Growth for Microsoft!’
How does the ATS role add value?
The ATS is an Customer aligned Relationship Resource with the following core responsibilities:
1. Gather a 360° Customer Insightprofile, incl. IO, IT and Application Platform, and the Partner and Competitive landscape.
2. Build Trusted Technology Relationships with the TDM, in particular with the CIO, CSO, CTO and their direct reports.
3. Drive Realized Platform Value, by driving a Deployment and Adoption Strategy, and orchestrating Resources from theSTU (SSP/TSP), Microsoft Services and Partners for Execution.
4. Initiate Growth by Competitive Displacement, by building a qualified competitive pipeline, initiating Capability Led (IO) Conversations, supporting Application Platform (BGA/AGA) Engagements, and leveraging the Microsoft Account Planning process.
The ATS has 3 distinct sales motions:
1. Deployment: The ATS owns the Deployment Strategy, and drives a customer validated Deployment Plan, supported by STU, MicrosoftServices and Partners.
2. Capability Led Selling (IO): The ATS initiates the IO Conversation (leveraging IO Discovery) as a Trusted Technology Relation to the TDM (in particular the CIO, CSO and CTO), and supports STU resources (SSP/TSP) in driving competitive opportunities.
3. Application Platform Selling (APO): The ATS supports Application Platform BGA and AGA engagements, owned and orchestrated by AM and SSP Platform.
How is the ATS role unique from other roles?
The ATS role is unique in:
a. Its focus on Long-term Sustainable Growth.
b. Its in-depth knowledge of Customers’ IT environments.
c. Its ability to build long-term Trusted Technology Relationships, and have solid and meaningful strategic Technology conversations.
d. Its broad knowledge of the entire Microsoft Enterprise Platform, and the ability to map ITto the Customer Business needs and priorities.
e. Its ability to qualify and initiate competitive opportunities and work with Microsoft and/or Partner resources to grow the Microsoft Infrastructure and Application Platform.
The ATS is responsible to build a trusted relationship with customers, realize Platform Value resulting in long-term sustainable growth. Key driver is to make sure customers deploy and adopt the Microsoft Platform and get true Business Value.
The ATS is a relationship resourcealigned with local and/or global customers.
The impact an individual ATS has islimited to the customers that theATS is assigned to and as the ATSis a long-term resource, tenure inrole and assigned customers is advised.
On a WW scale the WW ATS community is a key resource (like no other role within Microsoft) tosecure a long-term sustainable business for Microsoft!
As a relationship resource the ATS should aspire to be seen by the customer as a trusted advisor; building credibility by driving IO maturity conversations, IT roadmap strategies and relevant mapping to existing (sometimes competitive) IT infrastructure , business needs, priorities and strategies
Job Requirements:
3-5 years of related experience
Bachelor’s Degree
Sales and Partner management, complex sales training (i.e. Miller Hyman, Spin, Michael Bosworth, Holden, etc.), sales methodologies (equivalent to MSSP),
Broad evangelism through events (presentation skills),
Effective marketing tactics, CRM (Siebel or other).
Technical sales or consulting position within an IT consulting or Services company such as Cisco, Accenture, IBM Global Services, HP,Cap Gemini or equivalent.
Technical sales or consulting position in a competing Software Company, particularly IBM or Oracle.
CIO or IT Ops position in a medium to large Company.
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