Director, Digital Solutions Sales, Microsoft Elevate

People Management Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model: Live our culture. Embody our values. Practice our leadership principles. Coach: Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries. Help the team adapt and learn. Care: Attract and retain great people. Know each individual's capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others. Participates in regular strategic planning for their assigned territory; review plans via rhythm-of-business (ROB) meetings and aligns the plans of their team across departments; guides team to align their approach with sales excellence team; engages with external executives to bring a more strategic perspective into the planning portion of account planning. Builds and transforms new markets by leveraging technical and industry expertise, partners, and resources; leads a team to explore business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and facilitate customer innovation. Guides their team in whitespace analysis and supports the team to identify potential business in the assigned territory; aligns the analysis approach across teams; acts as a thought leader and validates opinions and perspectives from business analysis. Guides and orchestrates their team on communicating with customers to understand their business needs or facilitates customer interactions to assess customer needs; provides direction/guidance on the development of solutions across solution areas and support areas; helps the team create vision for the customers and develop plans to drive sales. Guides their team to build a network of partners to cross-sell, up-sell, and co-sell; leads the team to identify new partners, evaluate partner capabilities, and supports on-boarding new partners; facilitates the development of partner strategies and ensures execution; provides input and feedback to One Commercial Partner (OCP) on developing partner strategies and consumption plans, and building partner capabilities. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 7+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 9+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience. Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 10+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 11+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience. 6+ years of solution or services sales experience. 3+ years of people management experience.