The Veraqor Sales & Marketing is an organization with a charter to accelerate Veraqor growth in its cloud-first, mobile-first businesses along with the traditional businesses. This organization is at the forefront of establishing a new sales model leveraging modern technology and big data and analytics to drive impactful demand response and targeted sales coverage. The Digital Sales Representative role is focused on working with Veraqor Sales & Marketing teams to identify and drive opportunities in targeted workloads.
The key goal of this role is to increase incremental sales volume through the generation of new opportunities that result in additional customer revenue. As a Digital Solution Representative, you will work closely with Specialists and Partners to plan and execute account coverage and campaign strategies to unlock new sales opportunities in our managed accounts. The role is adept at understanding the needs and process pains of customers to identify opportunities where Microsoft solutions can add long-term value.
Our culture is centered 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.
Responsibilities
- Engage with MSQLs. (marketing and sales qualified leads) and Corporate managed account (KAM – Key Account Management) customers across industries, company sizes and types to determine their needs and identify opportunities to fulfill their needs with Microsoft’s and other leading cloud technologies
- Effectively turn prospects and qualified leads into opportunities and revenue pipeline by filtering them through different criteria, e.g., BANT (budget, authority, need and timeline) and collaborating with Technical pre-sales team, Solution Specialists, and sales.
- Identify and explain how businesses across industries, company sizes and types can meet a new bar for excellence and reinvent themselves to compete in the next decade by embracing Microsoft’s technologies
- Position competitive offerings and solutions in the context of customer needs and experiences; provide technical product overview and insights pertinent to customer need and usage scenarios
- Be the first contact point for many customers, deliver a positive first impression and set the foundation for long term customer relationship
- Quarterback sales from lead to purchase; be the main point of contact for Veraqor’s customers, leading the sales strategy, overcoming objections, and negotiating success
- Meet and exceed customer acquisition targets, accurately forecast sales, pipeline and usage for the products and solutions in your scope
- Work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and dynamic teaming environment with Technical Specialists, Sales Representatives and Territory Channel Managers to effectively manage opportunities and pipeline through the sales cycle
- Leverage social, digital, video, chat, phone, and demonstration environments to effectively reach, sell to, and manage Veraqor customers maintain high daily activity, minimum ~60-90 activities/day
- Present action plans and results to management and use appropriate escalation techniques to stay on top of goals and objectives
- Obsess over Veraqor’s customers and prospects to deliver a world-class customer engagement experience
- Remove roadblocks to deployment and drive customer satisfaction
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- 6+ years sales and negotiation experience
- OR Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) or related field AND 5+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- 7+ years sales and negotiation experience
- OR Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) or related field AND 4+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience
- OR Master’s Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Marketing (or equivalent) AND 1+ year(s) sales and negotiation experience or related work.
- Executive Presence. Experience and expertise selling to LOB decision makers, technical decision makers & enterprise and corporate solution architects by aligning & reinforcing the value of the solution to the customer’s overall business pain and/or strategic opportunities and decision criteria
- Problem Solver. Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies, specifically solutions related to cloud native apps – containers & serverless, microservices, migration to cloud, Hybrid cloud, datacenter infrastructure modernization, DevOps/DevTest
- Orchestrate and influence virtual teams to pursue sales opportunities and lead virtual teams through influence
- Experience leading large cloud deals and effectively leveraging the right partners and Microsoft engineering resources
- Competitive Landscape. Knowledge of enterprise software solutions and cloud platform competitor landscape
