Job Description

The Microsoft Security organizations mission of making the world a safer place has never been more important. As threats become more frequent and sophisticated, we must work to keep our customers safe through our Security Solutions. With thousands of global security experts worldwide, $1 billion+ invested annually in security research and development, and the cutting-edge AI- based Security innovations, Microsoft is ideally placed to think outside of the box and protecting customers and partners around the world.As an Advanced Identity Global Black Belt (GBB), you will be a senior solution sales leader within our enterprise sales organization working with our most important customers and deals. You will collaborate and lead a virtual team of technical, partner, marketing and engineering resources to advance the sales process and achieve commercial and technical wins as well as meet and exceed sales target for related workload in your accounts. You will help customers evaluate their identity environments, recommend solutions that meet their requirements, remove roadblocks to deployment and drive customer satisfaction. GBBs possess extensive experience with executive customer relationships and connections, along with a deep knowledge of our competitors offerings, sales strategies, and the ability to cultivate relationships with customers.The role involves working as part of a global team, and although regionally based, the person hired will potentially also support colleagues in other geographies. Successful candidates will be self-motivated, customer obsessed and will work closely with the local sales & services Microsofts 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.Are you insatiably curious and do you lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from? Are you passionate about cybersecurity? Do you enjoy working on a high-performing, fast-paced sales team? Are you insatiably curious and do you lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from your mistakes? If so, we are looking for you!Please note that this role is open to candidates that currently reside in South Africa or a CEE country.Responsibilities:Be a Security Identity Sales and Technical Expert

• Lead sales and technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, design sessions, proof of concepts, and pilots to explain, demonstrate, and prove to our largest customers the capabilities of Microsoft's Identity offering, and how
• Purposefully master Microsofts Security value proposition to present the importance of secure identities and a zero-trust approach as base for the customers security strategy.
• Win the business and technical decision at customers for sales opportunities and usage scenarios
• Partner with and coach account teams on deal shaping and ideation
• Expertise in sophisticated identity, authentication, security, privacy, and compliance requirements, and integrating them into cloud and hybrid solutions.
• Drive our new identity product line focusing on Secure Service Edge and Identity Governance Technologies.
• Enterprise customer level experience with cloud, hybrid infrastructures and adjacent technologies, architecture designs, migrations, and industry standards; broad experience with IaaS and PaaS, and broad Cloud Security; and competitive knowledge.

Be the customer interface and orchestrate a v-team of resources to solve customer problems

• Support partner and field sales and technical training and enablement.
• Identify and remove business, technical, architecture, and competitive blockers
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert on Microsofts Security Advanced Identity Solutions.
• Understand the capabilities of, strategically be able to work with, influence, build and grow, Microsofts customers, internal organizations, and external communities and partners.

Drive and Influence Customer Value

• Influence the Cloud Security solutions go-to-market strategies by providing feedback to sales, marketing, and engineering.
• Influence key technical decision makers, industry decision makers, and boards.
• Lead, inspire and mentor members of Microsoft across sales, services, and marketing organizations and Microsoft partners.
• Possess a growth mindset.

Qualifications:Minimum

• Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience, training, and certifications
• Knowledge and hands-on experience working with Enterprise customers.
• Proven track record of delivering sales results, exceeding quotas and managing complex sales pursuits from ideation to close with technical and subject matter expertise.

Preferred

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, data security/compliance/governance or a related field is required, along with several years of relevant experience in security technical and/or sales account roles. The ideal candidate should possess experience and/or knowledge in working with Azure security services and workloads or other public cloud ecosystems. Additionally, expertise in developing strategies and architectures for securing networking and identity access workloads, including productivity SaaS applications, and IaaS and PaaS workloads is essential.
• Demonstrated high technical aptitude and hands-on experience in consultative sales of enterprise access management, network security solutions, with a specific emphasis on Microsoft's Entra Suite offering. In-depth knowledge of competitors in the identity and SSE space is also a key attribute.
• Proficient in Identity and security conversations. Substantial experience and direct accountability for crafting access and network security vision and architectures for hero use-cases and scenarios in both corporate entities and government sectors. Oversight of the comprehensive sales execution cycle of these strategic initiatives.
• Well-developed ability to influence without authority to drive change and strong oral & written communication skills, strong influencing skills, experience in public speaking to large and small audiences.

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. 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 .

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