The Sales Enablement & Operations (SE&O) team plays an essential role in translating Microsoft’s Commercial Strategy to a local execution plan and driving operational excellence to achieve the greatest results possible. Our team drives cross Azure insight and execution excellence in Western Europe & Denmark, bringing strategy and priorities to life by accelerating the pace of transformation and enabling Microsoft to deliver business impact at scale.
We’re looking for a highly driven, motivated business and marketing leader to join our Western Europe Azure Infrastructure Go-to-Market (GTM) team in Italy. This role requires someone who thrives leading a virtual team, acts as a thought leader, develops marketing strategy, and tracks success criteria and performance metrics.
The Azure Infra GTM Lead for Italy develops and executes business strategy and tracks the efficacy of plans across the business to drive sustainable growth within and beyond the boundaries of the fiscal year. You lead definition and orchestration of strategic go-to-market (GTM) plans across the business. You excel at creating alignment and action across teams, move roadblocks and simplify complex concepts, truly live for big challenges, and you are not afraid to take thoughtful risks working in deep partnership with the field, Corp and marketing team.
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
Drive Business Performance
* Partners with Areas to drive GTM for aligned Solution Plays, identifying growth opportunities in the market and builds clear execution plans.
* Align, influence and coach field teams, sales operations, marketing plans, business rhythms and change management to convert strategic priorities into local execution.
* Partners across Microsoft core teams to bring the voice of field and co-design strategy and programs.
Leads Sales Enablement
* Lands and champions solution plays, activating connected sales and marketing execution in every segment to maximize performance and share.
* Lead and collaborate with GPS for local partner-led marketing strategies and demand generation that support solution play performance.
* Champions Microsoft strategy and Solution Areas and builds industry presence.
Champions Product Advocacy
* Advocates as the voice of the Customer, Partners and Field to provide thought leadership on competitive landscape, solution area gaps, sales trends, etc. to drive improvements on the GTM plan.
* Grows organization capability to drive true insights, learnings and blockers for leaders, managers, and sellers.
* Drives standardized rhythms and tools that drive increased customer and partner facing time for sellers.
* Activates leaders and managers on investments and resource optimization, leveraging data and analysis.
Exemplifies Microsoft Values, Culture, Leadership Principles
* Creates clarity by creating a shared understanding and building a clear course of action.
* Boundary-less leader who pursues right outcomes to achieve success.
* Models living the Microsoft culture and drives our leadership principles and Model, Coach and Care.
Respected People & Organization Leader
* Builds organization capability for employees, partners, and market opportunities.
* Grows effective & inclusive teams where people can do their best work.
* Influences and transforms behaviors and evangelizes new ways of working.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
Solid marketing strategy, business planning, sales enablement, business development, technical pre-sales, or related work experience.
OR equivalent experience.
Additional Or Preferred Qualifications
Fluency in Italian language.
Extensive marketing strategy, business planning, sales enablement, business development, technical pre-sales, or related work experience AND Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, or related field OR equivalent experience.
Solid experience managing and expanding a product/solution portfolio and driving demand generation and pipeline acceleration within a complex (e.g., multinational or matrixed) organization.
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