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We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Transformation Director to join our team. The ideal candidate will drive strategic discussions with executive stakeholders and key decision makers for high-value customers to identify, qualify, prioritize, and accelerate sales opportunities. This role involves directing strategic partnerships, leveraging whitespace analysis, and utilizing subject matter expertise to identify and capitalize on business opportunities to bridge market gaps within the assigned market domain. The Transformation Director will utilize AI-driven market intelligence tools to assess trends and insights.
**Responsibilities**
+ Provide guidance across teams on solution areas and broader market trends to craft cutting-edge sales strategies that anticipate and meet complex customer priorities and outcomes, incorporating AI-driven predictive analytics to forecast future market needs.
+ Drive partnerships with others cross-organizationally and strategically direct and oversee the creation of cutting-edge solutions that drive AI- and cloud-driven transformations, ensuring alignment with regional and global initiatives.
+ Drive sales pipeline reviews with internal executive stakeholders to ensure forecasting accuracy and meeting of sales targets, ensuring the use of AI-powered analytics and forecasting tools to enhance precision.
+ Direct and implement sales strategy tailored to each customer's security priorities, showcasing our dedication to secure, AI-powered transformation and addressing their specific needs within the customer success plan.
+ Communicate effectively with both internal and external business stakeholders, ensuring that mutual objectives and priorities are clearly presented and understood.
+ Manage conflict, disharmony, and strife among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
+ Create and deliver formal presentations to others, sharing information on a range of topics in a clear, concise, engaging, and convincing manner.
+ Adapt communications around different technologies, products, and services to the audience's level of understanding.
+ Cultivate strategic partnerships and maintain strong business relationships and partnerships, while nurturing executive relationships to establish credibility as an active listener and trusted advisor.
+ Maximize business objectives by leveraging a deep understanding of businesses and their needs, and opportunities across market, industry, and competition.
+ Manage and optimize sales accounts through strategic decision-making, deep understanding of sales cycle timeframes, and leveraging advanced tools, programs, and insights to drive KPIs and enhance operational efficiencies.
+ Sell solutions by demonstrating value, persuasively negotiating mutually beneficial agreements, and consulting with stakeholders to challenge conventional thinking.
+ Analyze business needs and market dynamics, gather and analyze relevant customer, partner, and competitor insights and trends, and manage and inform change processes for current and future customers to advance and optimize sales pipelines.
**Qualifications**
**Qualifications:**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR equivalent experience.
+ Preferred: Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 15+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR equivalent experience.
+ 10+ years services sales or account management experience.
+ Strong financial services background.
+ Must speak fluent Japanese.
**Skills:**
+ Conflict Resolution
+ English Language Proficiency
+ Oral Communication
+ Presentations
+ Technical Communication
+ Written Communication
+ Cultivating Strategic Partnerships
+ Maximizing Business Opportunities
+ Optimizing Account Operations
+ Selling Solutions
+ Strategically Managing Sales Pipelines
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .

Industry teams enable our sales teams and partners to deliver relevant, high-quality solutions and services to empower our commercial and public sector customers to lead the digital transformation of our customers in the financial services industry.
We are seeking to add an experienced, motivated, and high performing individual to join us as our **Regional Engineering Director** to partner with the FSI team to have impact across our product engineering teams, our top FSI industry customers, account teams, marketing teams, communication teams, and our FSI subject matter experts. You would have an unique opportunity to articulate complex topics in a digestible manner to reduce anxiety, raise ambition and encourage boldness and "challenger-mindset" among technical CxOs.
**Responsibilities**
+ Engage key customers to drive the industry-relevant technology conversation at a senior level with support from engineering and industry leaders. Able to run technical workshops and deep discussions on various FSI sub-domains technology modules in terms of cloud technology/ services as well as engage in solution architecture design and migration/ modernization conversations.
+ Expected to be familiar with FSI core systems (transactions and analytical etc), including limitations, dependencies, vulnerabilities and security as well as conversant in equivalent cloud native architectures and the various migration pathways.
+ Run a rhythm with key members of the FSI Team to gather information on customers' business challenges, the key Industry Priority Scenarios getting traction, and engineering gaps that need to be fed into our product engineering team, so that our platforms are richer for our customers and partners
+ In partnership with the FSI Partner Strategy Lead and the FSI Solutions Lead, work with key partners to better understand their business and technical challenges in using our platform to deliver services and to develop new industry capabilities
+ Coordinate and manage to closure all customer/partner escalations directed towards the CVP and CTO that have product engineering implications needing work with engineering teams
+ Support and coach account teams on customer and partner visits to the Microsoft Executive Briefing Center where the FSI team are involved
This role requires someone who is highly motivated combining a prior sales or similar background with exceptional strategic thinking, superior executive communication skills, project management, and excellent team member skills (down, across, and up.)
**Qualifications**
+ Strong technology leader with experience of building, supporting, and delivering technology solutions within the Financial Services industry
+ Deep experience in sales to top-tier banks and financial institutions, demonstrating a strong understanding of sales lifecycle and customer interactions
+ Executive maturity and experience working with senior leaders
+ Exceptional messaging and communication skills
+ Strong cross-group collaboration skills and ability to drive coordination across all levels and stakeholders
+ Thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and able to adapt plans and approach in
+ real-time
+ Confidence under pressure especially within tight timelines
+ Skilled at prioritization, creating order and marshalling resources towards achieving a common goal
+ A growth mindset of continuous learning rather than knowing
+ We would value - but do not expect - understanding of Microsoft's commercial business solutions, including customers and partner ecosystem
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .

If you are passionate about working at the intersection of business and technology to transform the insurance indsutry across Australia & New Zealand - this is the role for you.
As an Account Executive in Microsoft Financial Services division, you will work with our largest insurance customers to use world leading technology to drive business transformation and the way we experience insurance during our moments that matter. This opportunity will allow you to work at the forefront of AI technology and build and deliver strategic partnerships that result in transformation of the way we experience insurance.
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**
+ Oversee complex accounts, leading planning and prioritization to ensure the right responses to evolving customer needs.
+ Build trust with customer executives by shaping long-term, mutually beneficial digital transformation strategies in partnership with key internal stakeholders.
+ Lead extended virtual teams and industry experts, applying best-in-class sales and communication techniques to influence and deliver outcomes.
+ Translate technical features into clear business impact and measurable outcomes that accelerate customers' digital transformation.
+ Develop compelling value propositions and tailored business plans that drive business outcomes, while identifying opportunities for upselling and cross-selling.
+ Stay ahead of market and industry trends by proactively engaging with a network of experts and maintaining deep competitive insight.
+ Act as a trusted advisor by understanding, documenting, and aligning solutions with the customer's strategic goals.
+ Drive AI-led transformation programs that deliver measurable results through strategic partnerships.
+ Build and manage a qualified, insight-driven pipeline through deep customer engagement.
+ Lead a connected Microsoft account team to deliver customer-aligned growth, amplifying impact through success stories that inspire and scale.
**Qualifications**
**Minimum Experience**
+ 6 years+ experience enterprise sales experience or consulting experience, driving digital transformation.
+ Demonstrated ability to lead and orchestrate cross-functional virtual teams to deliver business outcomes.
+ Established track record as a trusted advisor to senior executives, with strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
**Preferred Experience**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Business, Technology, or related field
+ Background working with or within the Financial Services industry with relevant experience in consulting or technology.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .

Drives strategic discussions with executive stakeholders and key decision makers for high-value customers to identify, qualify, prioritize, and accelerate sales opportunities. Directs strategic partnerships for leveraging whitespace analysis and utilizes subject matter expertise to identify and capitalize on business opportunities to bridge market gaps within the assigned market domain, utilizing AI-driven market intelligence tools to assess trends and insights. Provides guidance across teams on solution areas and broader market trends to craft cutting-edge sales strategies that anticipate and meet complex customer priorities and outcomes, incorporating AI-driven predictive analytics to forecast future market needs. Drives partnerships with others cross-organizationally and strategically directs and oversees the creation of cutting-edge solutions that drive AI- and cloud-driven transformations, ensuring alignment with regional and global initiatives, emphasizing the integration of cutting-edge AI technologies and cloud services. Drives sales pipeline reviews with internal executive stakeholders to ensure forecasting accuracy and meeting of sales targets, ensuring the use of AI-powered analytics and forecasting tools to enhance precision. Directs and implements sales strategy tailored to each customer's security priorities, showcasing our dedication to secure, AI-powered transformation and addressing their specific needs within the customer success plan, fostering long-term partnerships through AI-driven insights.
**Responsibilities**
+ **Communicating with Impact** Effectively communicating the value of solutions to both internal and external business stakeholders, ensuring that mutual objectives and priorities are clearly presented and understood, thereby driving successful outcomes in sales engagements
+ **Conflict Resolution** The ability to manage conflict, disharmony, and strife among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
+ **Presentations** The ability to create and deliver formal presentations to others. This includes sharing information on a range of topics in a clear, concise, engaging and convincing manner; commanding the audience’s attention; developing effective presentation materials (e.g., handouts, visual aids); and handling questions or argumentative positions from the audience.
+ **Technical Communication** The ability to adapt communications around different technologies, products, and services to the audience's level of understanding.
+ **Written Communication** The ability to prepare clear, accurate, and understandable written text, and follow the basic rules of spelling, grammar, and punctuation. This may include memos, emails, proposals, reports, and professional or general correspondence.
+ Strong Financial services background:
+ **Cultivating Strategic Partnerships** Orchestrating and maintaining strong business relationships and partnerships, while nurturing executive relationships to establish credibility as an active listener and trusted advisor. Managing relationships and projecting executive presence to cultivate effective collaborative partnerships with customers, partners, and stakeholders, driving business growth.
+ **Maximizing Business Opportunities** Maximizing business objectives by leveraging a deep understanding of businesses and their needs, and opportunities across market, industry, and competition. Managing and prioritizing business development opportunities through market and industry analysis, recognizing customer needs, qualifying opportunities, and identifying how solutions, in collaboration with partners, can enable business capabilities that drive growth and innovation
+ **Optimizing Account Operations** Managing and optimizing sales accounts through strategic decision-making, deep understanding of sales cycle timeframes, and leveraging advanced tools, programs, and insights to drive KPIs and enhance operational efficiencies. Orchestrating opportunities and deals by developing tailored sales strategies that drive successful business outcomes and maximize customer value realization.
+ **Selling Solutions** Selling solutions by demonstrating value, persuasively negotiating mutually beneficial agreements, and consulting with stakeholders to challenge conventional thinking. Creatively navigating the sales process and using storytelling to envision transformation with the customer, effectively connecting anecdotes, data insights, and technical value to maximize and accelerate customer business impact.
**Skills Not Mapped to Capability**
+ **Strategically Managing Sales Pipelines** Analyzing business needs and market dynamics, gathering and analyzing relevant customer, partner and competitor insights and trends, and managing and informing change processes for current and future customers to advance and optimize sales pipelines.
+ **Customer Engagement** Assesses and qualifies sales opportunities following sales frameworks and guidelines, ensuring alignment with AI-enhanced sales methodologies and best practices. Directs strategy development for driving and closing strategic, high-value opportunities. Leads partnerships across organizations (e.g., Account Team Unit (ATU), CSU, ISD, GPS) to ensure deal orchestration and seamless handoffs throughout the deal lifecycle. Establishes best practices to gain customer trust, secure deals, and proactively mitigate risks to enhance sales activities across the territory.
+ Directs and implements sales strategy tailored to each customer's security priorities, showcasing our dedication to secure, AI-powered transformation and addressing their specific needs within the customer success plan, fostering long-term partnerships through AI-driven insights. Champions partner team interaction, expertly navigates resources and fosters lasting relationships that activate co-selling strategies that drive partner attach to each opportunity through every stage in the sales lifecycle. Champions partner organization connections (i.e. GPS) that foster enduring relationships, shared gains, partner health and alignment with execution plans to accelerate customer value realization at scale.
+ **Sales & Pipeline Management** Leads the strategic analysis and identification of business and emerging opportunities to advance the customer portfolio and champion customer innovation at scale. Architects integration of technology (e.g., AI sales agents, automation, Power Platforms) to drive growth across multiple domains. Conducts deep-dive analysis of propensity, renewal, consumption, and usage data to develop and lead a comprehensive sales strategy. Directs the strategic partner optimization for each account and/or opportunity to ensure seamless handoffs with other teams (e.g., Global Partner Solutions (GPS), Customer Success Unit (CSU), Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD), Partner) throughout the deal lifecycle. Directs strategic whitespace analysis and utilizes subject matter expertise to identify and capitalize on business opportunities to bridge market gaps within the assigned market domain, leveraging AI-driven insights and automation.
+ Drives sales pipeline reviews with internal executive stakeholders to ensure forecasting accuracy and meeting of sales targets, ensuring the use of AI-powered analytics and forecasting tools to enhance precision. Serves as a role model for others on, and maintains sales and/or consumption pipeline hygiene that enable tracking to achieve assigned sales metrics using all available tools, resources, and processes. Serves as a role model for others on, and leads usage and/or consumption pipeline hygiene to actively monitor adoption trends, identify opportunities for intervention, enabling customers to realize the value of solutions purchased, drive expansion, and ensure healthier, more predictable renewals.
+ **Sales Strategy** Drives partnerships with others cross-organizationally and strategically directs and oversees the creation of cutting-edge solutions that drive AI- and cloud-driven transformations, ensuring alignment with regional and global initiatives, emphasizing the integration of cutting-edge AI technologies and cloud services. Develops and leads high-level strategies that position Microsoft as a leader in the market, fostering influential customer relationships that enhance long-term business value. Acts as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor for customers (up to the executive level) and drives the adoption of technologies and solutions that align and advance their strategic goals and drive digital transformation.
+ Directs strategic partnerships for leveraging whitespace analysis and utilizes subject matter expertise to identify and capitalize on business opportunities to bridge market gaps within the assigned market domain, utilizing AI-driven market intelligence tools to assess trends and insights. Systematically synthesizes and forecasts market intelligence, trends, and insights to shape the team's strategic direction and business initiatives. Develops and champions the market analysis methodology to ensure proactive alignment with strategic directives and emerging market trends.
+ Provides guidance across teams on solution areas and broader market trends to craft cutting-edge sales strategies that anticipate and meet complex customer priorities and outcomes, incorporating AI-driven predictive analytics to forecast future market needs. Leads and inspires cross-functional teams to develop and prioritize innovative solutions and strategies that enhance customer business objectives. Proactively identifies and strategically bridges gaps, establishing a clear direction for market engagement and sales execution.
+ Drives strategic discussions with executive stakeholders and key decision makers for high-value customers to identify, qualify, prioritize, and accelerate sales opportunities. Establishes and leads partnerships with internal executive stakeholders within and across organizations to proactively drive and enhance customer success initiatives. Leads partnerships with account teams to align the customer's artificial intelligence (AI) transformation vision with their business priorities and success objectives. Mentors others on integrating, and advocates for incorporating security principles into all customer interactions, opportunity, and pursuits to maintain trust and compliance standards.
+ **Relationship Management** Plays a leading role, working jointly with Account Executive, in defining and leading overall customer relationship "rhythms of connections." Leverages insight from consulting account-delivery team to ensure awareness of status of projects in delivery. Ensures execution of regular consulting "rhythms of connections" with customer to seek customer feedback and maintain proactive dialogue on overall consulting value provided, as well as relationship risks and issues. Anticipates issues/risks on customer satisfaction, determines the root cause of problems, removes blockers, and establishes recovery action plan to improve customer's overall experience. Proactively seeks to develop CXO connections between customer and Consulting to enable customers to provide feedback directly to Microsoft executives and to develop customer/consulting executive relationships.
+ Owns and maintains in agreement with the core account team customer and partner relationships, influences key decision makers, and leads effective rhythms of connection with customer and partner stakeholders, appropriately leveraging the virtual Consulting account team. Builds and maintains relationships with appropriate network of Microsoft decision makers and leaders, and successfully leverages them where needed for customer and partner success. Leads overall Microsoft-customer relationship with one or more Chief Executive Officer(s).
+ Drives and leverages for agreement with the core account team, building and strengthening relationships with Microsoft partner teams, such as software and customer success teams, (e.g., ATU and CSAM), as well as the pursuit and delivery teams, through regular rhythm of connections. Brings expertise, insights, and perspectives from customer engagement to Microsoft business to drive deeper customer engagement. Contributes to and leads the Microsoft overall account teams, solution teams, and other partner groups.
+ **Deep Proactive Engagement** Orchestrates high levels of strategic conversations internally or externally. Proactively engages with others to align strategy to customer needs. Serves as trusted business partner to influence customers to solutions aligned to customer strategic needs, including collaboration across product and engineering or domain and account teams. Ensures the offer meet customer needs. Drives accountability/alignment in resolving cross-functional issues to successful conclusion. Serves as trusted advisor to executives as well as peers (e.g., reviewing deals and structure of deal with peers, developing stronger deals through lessons learned). Collaborates with strategic customers and with executives internally and externally. Presents long-term position even in challenging situations. Orchestrates among stakeholder groups. Proactively contributes to the success of others. Reaches out to others to encourage collaboration as appropriate, across teams. Drives reviews and lessons learned, using knowledge (from a broad application of learning, rather than on individual deal basis) gained to influence the way business is conducted within and outside discipline. Deep understanding and collaborates cross culturally to achieve business results.
+ Strives to develop depth of relationships with strategic customers to understand their priorities and strategies, and structures complex deals that drive value and contribute to Microsoft growth. Demonstrates empathy with high-level customers and partners. Grows share and adoption while simultaneously driving business value for customers. Represents customer requirements in proposals, and crafts value-based solutions. Owns portions of commercial procurement and/or legal relationship with customers, and works with suppliers. Raises issues and makes recommendations to internal stakeholders to help to solve customer issues with novel ideas/methods. Shares knowledge about customer priorities and industry challenges and competitive landscape. Leads efforts to unblock roadblocks for the customer and providing customer solutions, removes barriers/challenges, and resolves issues as they occur. Successfully collaborates with more senior stakeholders of the customer. Critically examines alternative methods in order to meet customer needs most effectively.
+ Understands and anticipates complex and strategic business opportunities which vary based on deal lifecycle and advanced data input (e.g., cross-sell/upsell, expanding footprint, transformational). Creatively uses knowledge of both customer and Microsoft strategies to influence the likelihood of winning new opportunities that grow the Microsoft annuity footprint. Leverages knowledge to secure upsells for proven value. Works with account teams to identify growth opportunities and solutions. Provides offers. Demonstrates knowledge of monetization of products and solutions. Influences the analysis of product and solution margins, profitability, customer return on investment (ROI), benchmarking, and lifetime value (LTV). Constructs deals that avoid renewal complexities for the business. Develops frameworks and strategies for multiple deals.
+ Proactively handles, owns, and manages objections and negotiates complex contractual amendments within empowerment. Optimizes for the right level of investment, creativity, and customization. Drives orchestration across stakeholders with appropriate breadth and depth. Drives design of deals that will process, including any standard or custom amendments and documentation.
+ Keeps up to date with best practices and strategies. Leverages advanced understanding of product and services strategy per solution area. Informs stakeholders about what works, what does not, and why. Analyzes competitive positioning and use cases. Demonstrates exhaustive understanding of Microsoft and customer strategies, and exhibits in-depth knowledge of industry, competition, and offerings. Provides feedback to align pricing and offer strategy to meet customer needs. Provides alternatives and recommendations internally and externally (e.g., multiple solution areas, multiple industries). Gathers and provides feedback to inform recommended changes, and influences changes. Initiates discussion for real-time changes and future innovation. Aligns business strategies across regions, and provides product feedback. Identifies, articulates, and closes the gap between customer needs and solutions, and identifies optimal solutions to solve gaps. Serves as role model for learning and understanding local subsidiary strategy. Feeds back customer insight from one subsidiary to another and drives problem solution for long-term strategic efforts.
+ Develops industry knowledge and competitive analysis to contribute to crafting solutions. Understands what customer does and how, and aligns deal solutions to business outcomes. Contributes to early engagement, planning and ideation process. Engages in challenger conversations appropriately. Understands how to deliver solutions to customers. Leverages investment opportunities (e.g., financing, ECIF/ACO) where available to further commercial outcomes. Engages in the design of commercial deals and proactively drives the negotiation to meet customer expectations and Microsoft strategy, leading to winning solutions and successful business outcomes. Aligns language of renewal or negotiation to customer's outcomes, including total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI). Responds to customer issues (e.g., contracting, pricing). Shares knowledge of product and services offerings, licensing, and industry. Examines deals from different angles (e.g., year over year), and models variables to make the deal effective. Anticipates potential escalations and customer reactions. Demonstrates advanced market and customer business need understanding. Understands and speaks to Microsoft's product advantage and value compared to the competition.
**Qualifications**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR equivalent experience.
**Additional or preferred qualifications**
+ Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 15+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR equivalent experience.
+ 10+ years services sales or account management experience.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .

Drives strategic discussions with executive stakeholders and key decision makers for high-value customers to identify, qualify, prioritize, and accelerate sales opportunities. Directs strategic partnerships for leveraging whitespace analysis and utilizes subject matter expertise to identify and capitalize on business opportunities to bridge market gaps within the assigned market domain, utilizing AI-driven market intelligence tools to assess trends and insights. Provides guidance across teams on solution areas and broader market trends to craft cutting-edge sales strategies that anticipate and meet complex customer priorities and outcomes, incorporating AI-driven predictive analytics to forecast future market needs. Drives partnerships with others cross-organizationally and strategically directs and oversees the creation of cutting-edge solutions that drive AI- and cloud-driven transformations, ensuring alignment with regional and global initiatives, emphasizing the integration of cutting-edge AI technologies and cloud services. Drives sales pipeline reviews with internal executive stakeholders to ensure forecasting accuracy and meeting of sales targets, ensuring the use of AI-powered analytics and forecasting tools to enhance precision. Directs and implements sales strategy tailored to each customer's security priorities, showcasing our dedication to secure, AI-powered transformation and addressing their specific needs within the customer success plan, fostering long-term partnerships through AI-driven insights.
**Responsibilities**
**Required Upon Hire and Critical/Important**
**Communicating with Impact:**
+ Effectively communicating the value of solutions to both internal and external business stakeholders, ensuring that mutual objectives and priorities are clearly presented and understood, thereby driving successful outcomes in sales engagements
**Conflict Resolution:**
+ The ability to manage conflict, disharmony, and strife among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
**English Language Proficiency:**
+ The ability to speak and understand English when giving instructions and directions, and when talking with colleagues, managers, and others for work matters.
**Oral Communication:**
+ The ability to make a verbal message understood and to receive/understand messages during in-person or remote (e.g., telephone) interactions.
**Presentations:**
+ The ability to create and deliver formal presentations to others. This includes sharing information on a range of topics in a clear, concise, engaging and convincing manner; commanding the audienceÂ's attention; developing effective presentation materials (e.g., handouts, visual aids); and handling questions or argumentative positions from the audience.
**Technical Communication:**
+ The ability to adapt communications around different technologies, products, and services to the audience's level of understanding.
**Written Communication:**
+ The ability to prepare clear, accurate, and understandable written text, and follow the basic rules of spelling, grammar, and punctuation. This may include memos, emails, proposals, reports, and professional or general correspondence.
**Strong Financial services background:**
+ Requires strong financial services expertise to interpret industry regulations, understand market trends, identify customer needs, and communicate complex financial solutions effectively to clients and stakeholders.
**Cultivating Strategic Partnerships:**
+ Orchestrating and maintaining strong business relationships and partnerships, while nurturing executive relationships to establish credibility as an active listener and trusted advisor. Managing relationships and projecting executive presence to cultivate effective collaborative partnerships with customers, partners, and stakeholders, driving business growth.
**Selling Solutions:**
+ Selling solutions by demonstrating value, persuasively negotiating mutually beneficial agreements, and consulting with stakeholders to challenge conventional thinking. Creatively navigating the sales process and using storytelling to envision transformation with the customer, effectively connecting anecdotes, data insights, and technical value to maximize and accelerate customer business impact.
**Customer Engagement:**
+ Assesses and qualifies sales opportunities following sales frameworks and guidelines, ensuring alignment with AI-enhanced sales methodologies and best practices.
+ Directs strategy development for driving and closing strategic, high-value opportunities. Leads partnerships across organizations (e.g., Account Team Unit (ATU), CSU, ISD, GPS) to ensure deal orchestration and seamless handoffs throughout the deal lifecycle.
+ Establishes best practices to gain customer trust, secure deals, and proactively mitigate risks to enhance sales activities across the territory.
+ Directs and implements sales strategy tailored to each customer's security priorities, showcasing our dedication to secure, AI-powered transformation and addressing their specific needs within the customer success plan, fostering long-term partnerships through AI-driven insights.
+ Champions partner team interaction, expertly navigates resources and fosters lasting relationships that activate co-selling strategies that drive partner attach to each opportunity through every stage in the sales lifecycle.
+ Champions partner organization connections (i.e. GPS) that foster enduring relationships, shared gains, partner health and alignment with execution plans to accelerate customer value realization at scale.
**Sales Strategy:**
+ Oversees strategic partnerships and directs innovative AI and cloud solutions to align with regional and global priorities. Develops strategies that position Microsoft as a market leader, builds strong customer relationships, and acts as a trusted advisor to advance digital transformation.
+ Leverages subject matter expertise and AI-driven market intelligence tools to identify new business opportunities and close market gaps. Synthesizes market trends to guide strategy and champions proactive market analysis.
+ Advises teams on solutions and market trends to create future-oriented sales strategies using predictive analytics. Leads cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, customer-focused solutions and bridge identified market gaps.
+ Drives executive-level discussions to prioritize and accelerate key sales opportunities, fosters internal and external partnerships to enhance customer success, aligns AI transformation visions with business goals, and mentors others on integrating security principles for trust and compliance.
**Relationship Management:**
+ Collaborates with Account Executives to manage and strengthen customer relationships through regular engagement and feedback sessions. Utilises insights from the consulting team to monitor project status, address issues proactively, and implement recovery plans to enhance customer satisfaction. Facilitates connections between CXO-level customers and Microsoft executives to build strong partnerships and encourage direct feedback.
+ Works closely with core account, software, and customer success teams to coordinate efforts and foster productive relationships across Microsoft partner groups. Shares customer insights to drive deeper engagement and supports Microsoft's account and solution teams in delivering value.
**Deep Proactive Engagement:**
+ Facilitates strategic internal and external conversations to align solutions with customer needs, collaborating across teams and serving as a trusted business partner and advisor.
+ Builds deep relationships with strategic customers, understanding their priorities to structure complex deals that deliver value for both customers and Microsoft.
+ Represents customer needs in proposals, manages procurement and legal aspects, resolves issues, and shares industry knowledge to influence business practices.
+ Identifies and acts on strategic opportunities using data and knowledge of Microsoft and customer strategies, driving deal growth and upsells while ensuring profitability and simplifying renewals.
+ Handles objections, negotiates complex contracts, and leads deal design and documentation across stakeholders.
+ Applies industry knowledge and competitive analysis to shape solutions, leverages investment options, and aligns negotiations with customer outcomes, demonstrating advanced understanding of market needs and Microsoft's competitive advantage.
**Qualifications**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR equivalent experience.
+ Must Speak fluent Japanese.
**Additional or preferred qualifications**
+ Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 15+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR equivalent experience.
+ 10+ years services sales or account management experience.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .

**Introduction**
As a member the Promontory Australia team at IBM you will contribute to the firm's efforts in working with clients on challenging strategic, risk management, and regulatory compliance issues.
Our team of specialists offers the following services across Prudential, Conduct and AML Regulation:
· Risk Management - Providing advisory and assurance services regarding organisational transformation across risk management, governance, culture, accountability and compliance.
· Remediation Services - Assurance to regulators and firms over customer focused remediation programs.
· Regulatory Framework - Advising regulators and industry associations on building regulatory frameworks.
· Regulatory Liaison - Helping our clients navigate relationships with regulators.
· RegTech - Working with IBM teams and leveraging their technology assets in advising clients on AI based solutions and associated risk governance.
We have a diverse client base in Australia, which includes some of Australia's largest financial institutions and clients drawn from the public sector.
As an Associate Consultant, you will be responsible for managing risk, regulatory and compliance engagements on a day-to-day basis, analysing complex problems, developing recommendations to address client issues and heavily involved in reports and other deliverables. A strong consulting background with experience in non-financial risk management (including operational risk and resilience) and or superannuation is preferable. You will also be expected to draw upon your insights and networks to identify business opportunities for IBM Promontory to pursue.
**Your role and responsibilities**
To be successful in this role a candidate must have the stature to engage effectively with clients and potential clients at all levels. The candidate will also need to inspire and work effectively with team members drawn from a range of technical disciplines. Interact comfortably with executive management across industry and regulatory authorities. Key responsibilities will include:
* Manage projects and act as client point of contact on a day-to-day basis contributing to engagements being delivered to budget and meeting profit and realisation targets.
* Undertake analysis as directed and take responsibility for the preparation of project deliverables, including reports and presentations.
* Interact comfortably with executive management of and regulatory authorities, generally with a Director or Senior Principal present.
* Strong analytical skills, oral skills, with demonstrated ability to communicate clearly, simply and logically.
* Strong written communication skills with, the ability to construct well-founded, clear, and concise analyses and recommendations.
* Ability to handle complex information, solve problems, and manage multiple tasks.
* Ability to work closely with, and communicate effectively with, clients and within all levels of the organisation.
· Strong commitment to integrity and ethics.
The candidate will also be required to build and retain relationships across the industry and to identify opportunities for further work. This includes the ability to establish and maintain positive relationships and contribute to teams that are motivated to succeed.
**Required technical and professional expertise**
· An undergraduate degree in either Accounting, Commerce, Finance, or Law - with postgraduate qualifications highly regarded.
· At demonstrated experience in Financial services, Consulting, Regulator, Compliance, Risk management, Governance or legal.
· Track record working in a fast-paced and unstructured environment with aptitude for identifying and developing innovative solutions to client challenges.
**Preferred technical and professional experience**
Analytics and data: Proven track record of successfully delivering highly analytical and data intensive work. Strong understanding of data governance and experience in working with large and unstructured datasets to draw meaningful and actionable insights and outcomes.
AI: A strong understanding of AI fundamentals, including AI governance, and model development and application.
Expert level capabilities in Excel (incl. advanced excel functionality and VBA / Macro development). Expert level capabilities in working with large datasets in SQL
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Why WWT?
At World Wide Technology, we work together to make a new world happen. Our important work benefits our clients and partners as much as it does our people and communities across the globe. WWT is dedicated to achieving its mission of creating a profitable growth company that is also a Great Place to Work for All. We achieve this through our world-class culture, generous benefits and by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions for our clients.
Founded in 1990, World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology solutions provider leading the AI and Digital Revolution. With more than $20 billion in annual revenue, WWT combines the power of strategy, execution and partnership to accelerate digital transformational outcomes for large public and private organisations. Through its Advanced Technology Centre, a collaborative ecosystem of the world's most advanced hardware and software solutions, WWT helps clients and partners conceptualise, test and validate innovative technology solutions for the best business outcomes and then deploys them at scale through its global warehousing, distribution and integration capabilities.
With over 10,000 employees and more than 55 locations around the world, WWT's culture, built on a set of core values and established leadership philosophies, has been recognised 13 years in a row by _Fortune_ and _Great Place to Work®_ for its unique blend of determination, innovation and creating a great place to work for all. With this culture at its foundation, WWT bridges the gap between business and technology to make a new world happen for its customers, partners and communities.
Want to work with highly motivated individuals on high-performance teams? Join WWT today!
We are looking for a Client Executive to join our Australia team.
What will you be doing?
The Client Executive's role is to develop and lead WWT's relationship with one or more strategic enterprise customers.
This role will involve establishing relationships at senior levels within your customer(s). You will be responsible for effectively selling WWT's advanced suite of solutions, services and capabilities across all levels of the customer, supported by an extended team of highly skilled individuals. You will also focus on driving the Strategic Account Planning and Execution. The role may require both domestic and international travel.
Responsibilities:
+ Lead the mission for WWT as an Executive Level sales professional for one or more strategic customers, by providing leadership to a team of sales professionals.
+ Drive sales achievement through a customer-centric approach to your business.
+ Provide accurate forecasting and execution on calculated areas within your account; assist team members with deal qualification and strategy to promote sales.
+ Expert-level strategic account planning, plan execution and competitive market positioning of WWT to ensure alignment of current and future business opportunities.
+ Work with various WWT team members, Technical Leadership and Directors on business solutions which will both enhance WWT's role with our customer as well as drive profitability.
+ Engage our company "Subject Matter Experts" to create integrated solutions that address customers' complex problems.
+ Ability to drive high-level to expert-level strategy meetings with complex and advanced designs.
Qualifications:
+ 7-12+ years' sales experience in a relevant industry and 7-10+ years of experience managing/leading a book of significant business.
+ Candidates must have a successful track record in sales.
+ Proven large account management with multiple business streams, cross-functional team utilisation and developing innovative business solutions solving complex business challenges for a customer. Proven P&L management experience is a plus.
+ Executive-level customer experience and current relationships are essential for success.
+ Experience with consultative services sales approach and/or disruptive technology is highly desired.
+ Understanding the diverse selling motions of Australian enterprise; including contracts and programmes and an ability to creatively identify traditional and non-traditional paths to market.
+ Outstanding communication and financial skills required.
+ Leadership experience a plus.
The well-being of WWT employees is essential. So, when it comes to our benefits package, WWT has one of the best. We offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:
+ Health and Wellbeing: Combined Health Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program
+ Financial Benefits: Competitive pay, Profit Sharing, Life and Disability Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement
+ Paid Time Off: PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Sick Leave, Bereavement
We strive to create an environment where all employees are empowered to succeed based on their skills, performance, and dedication. Our goal is to cultivate a culture of belonging that encourages innovation, collaboration, and respect for all team members, ensuring that WWT remains a great place to work for All!
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WWT will consider for employment, without regard to disability, a disabled applicant who satisfies the requisite skill, experience, education, and other job-related requirements of the job and is capable of performing the essential requirements of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. World Wide Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or other characteristics protected by law. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please call and ask for Human Resources.