Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centred 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.

A career in the Government Team at Microsoft will give you the opportunity to join a talented and dedicated team in pursuit of ambitious goals for our Public Sector customers. You will be given the freedom and inspiration to make a difference to your customers and have a lasting impact in your role. You will have access to a diverse talent pool, technology and tools that enable you to utilize your skills, drive and most importantly, your imagination!

An exciting opportunity has become available as a Strategic Regional Account Executive to lead on our work across the West Midlands Combined Authority region. WMCA is one of the largest devolved city regions in the UK, with a strong mayoral presence, and an ambitious plan for the future. The successful candidate will work with a cross industry team, with expertise in local government, health, policing, and education, to enable Microsoft to support WMCA in bringing these plans to life. You will drive the strategic and political engagement in the region, building on and supporting the work that our account teams drive with their individual customers, to produce transformative business outcomes for the region. The ambitions for WMCA are significant and the opportunity to transform and make an impact here has never been greater. You will have the opportunity to lead programmes alongside public and private sector organisations, represent Microsoft in regional forums and use your experience and knowledge of digital industry and potential, to lead and open conversations for the benefit of society in WMCA.

We would love to hear from you if you;

• Can see the ‘big picture,’ and are able to comfortably engage senior leaders on their business goals and challenges
• Have a passion for working in technology-led business transformation
• Have a desire to work on genuine innovation and breakthrough business solutions
• Can bring clarity to complex problems and solutions
• Have experience of working with a distributed customer and colleague base, with an engagement style that seeks to understand and embrace geographical and cultural differences
• Have a strong reputation for sales excellence and accountability
• Embrace diversity and inclusivity in all that you do, and create environments for others to be successful
• Advocate a growth mindset, turning challenges into opportunities

Responsibilities

• Defining the strategic vision, engaging with political leadership, and leading the regional transformation with CxO level, Digital and Business Decision Makers (BDM)
• Effectively engage and run a large virtual, diverse team, all supporting the customers vision
• Communicate and coordinate with a broad range of senior stakeholders within Microsoft and within your customers
• Take our customers on a journey of digital change, moving to cloud based services and leveraging the innovation and optimization that can bring
• Take ownership for your customer’s experience with Microsoft
• Challenge traditional thinking and approaches with empathy and think about how we can help our customers do things differently
• Meet or exceed revenue goals set by the business
• Increase Microsoft’s credibility, impact and depth of engagement in both your customers and in the broader Public Sector market
• Engage and successfully collaborate with our Microsoft Partner Network in building the right solutions for our customers, as part of the large Microsoft virtual team
• Ensure that the customer gets the very best value from their Microsoft investments, looking for every opportunity to address our customers challenges using our software and services

Qualifications

Common attributes we typically look for, can include;

• Track record of confidently holding executive level relationships and influencing at senior levels within customers
• Experience in Enterprise Sales, Business Consulting or Consultative Selling, preferably in Digital Technology or similar areas
• Public Sector industry knowledge and experience either as a customer or as a supplier is desired but not essential

• Knowledge of the region and political landscape desirable