Director Sales - Public Sector

Job description

**Overview** Develops and drives go-to-market sales strategy and execution to ensure success within their market based on Microsoft's and customer/partner needs. Leads the and aligns business within the segment, driving strategic direction across teams. Defines ongoing and long-term customer value realization and satisfaction strategies contributing to net-new revenue and business growth. Leverages industry and market expertise, proactively leading teams to identify solutions to drive new opportunities and strategies in alignment with customer needs. Leads and coaches teams on the development and implementation of scalable go-to-market for maximizing revenue, consumption, and growth across solution areas. Defines expectations and sets strategies for teams to leverage drivers of Digital & Artificial Intelligence transformation relevant to their customers and partners across business units. Fosters and defines a culture of inclusion, learning, mentorship, coaching, customer-centricity, accountability, collaboration, and achievement of bold goals. Leads business planning and alignment beyond fiscal year boundaries across segments, partners, and teams to drive growth and transformation, define expectations for sale execution, and holds teams accountable for results. Builds and maintains a broad executive network inclusive of partners. In addition, this role has people management responsibilities including driving employee growth and development, executing projects, and managing performance. **Responsibilities** **Accelerating Growth** Leverages industry and market expertise, proactively leading teams to identify solutions to drive new opportunities and strategies in alignment with customer needs. Establishes a technology-driven professional presence in the market and represents Microsoft as a thought leader who can articulate connections between Microsoft solutions to relevant business contexts with industry and market leaders (e.g., speaking at external events, sitting on boards). Pursues industry of choice to create more strategic relevance and value with customers. Coaches teams to consider global perspectives in practices in local trade, regulatory, and policy environments across geographic areas. Coaches managers and teams to tailor customer engagement for specific industries with relevant customer references and socializes practices across their organization. Identifies and creates customer references for landmark successes in one or more strategic industries to develop a advantage and to articulate ability to deliver customer value to achieve outcomes. Leverages experiences and expertise with customers across industry to influence the development of programs that help scale and accelerate successful engagements. Leads and coaches teams on the development and implementation of scalable go-to-market for maximizing revenue, consumption, and growth across solution areas. Shares practices and holds managers and teams accountable for leveraging market-specific insights and highlighting solutions that solve business and technology challenges. Coaches teams to identify and proactively engage influencers to drive Microsoft's perspective across accounts and to utilizing available programs to drive customers to expand budget. Sets the expectations for and enables teams to be self-sufficient in leveraging digital assets and data insights, and exhausting all opportunities to develop relationships with new and existing customers. Defines expectations and sets strategies for teams to leverage drivers of Digital & Artificial Intelligence (AI) transformation relevant to their customers and partners across business units, promoting the power of the AI within the Microsoft ecosystem, promoting the power of the AI within the Microsoft ecosystem. Drives communicating the importance of security, governance, and responsible use of AI as part of enterprise transformation. Acts as a thought leader in optimally leveraging transformation across solution areas. Consults with customers and internal/external Partners to ensure successful and secure value realization in delivery of solutions to customers. Drives and coaches teams to orchestrate across units and Partners to leverage and accelerate innovative transformation opportunities. Coaches managers to ensure internal partners are educated on industry trends and solutions. Develops and shares strategies for expanding relationships across customers' lines of business that enable innovative solutions, deliver business value, and create market growth. Coaches and supports teams to leverage industry experts within Microsoft to identify and execute on transformation opportunities. **Driving Success with and Through Others** Fosters and defines a culture of inclusion, learning, mentorship, coaching, customer-centricity, accountability, collaboration, and achievement of bold goals. Influences and inspires managers and teams across the organization to motivate, engage, and bring teams together. Leads a diverse and inclusive workforce, creates and hires diverse teams, and fosters an inclusive working environment via well-established inclusive behaviors. Develops and rewards high-performing individuals and teams, hires diverse talent, prioritizes development, leads by example, and prepares people for more positions in other parts of the organization. Builds and maintains a broad executive network inclusive of partners. Cultivates an ecosystem of customer and external partners and defines where there is a need for partners to act in Microsoft's market to accelerate consumption and/or growth. Inspires and influences engagements between partners and executives on long-term business planning, development of scalable strategic partnerships, and influencing customer needs and outcomes across one or more industries. Ensures teams across their organization maintain relationships with an ongoing long-term focus that looks past quarterly and annual targets. Models and creates a rhythm of business (RoB) with customers and partners that enables continuous engagement and future strategic planning. Leads business planning and alignment beyond fiscal year boundaries across segments, partners, and teams to drive growth and transformation, define expectations for sale execution, and holds teams accountable for results. Defines where orchestration is needed for success, creates new points of entry for integration and collaboration, sets the tone for an organizational culture of inclusion. Shares practices and a global perspective across the organization for managing competing priorities, reducing complexity for customers, and mitigating execution challenges, while maintaining a high level of accountability. Drives clarity when leading engagements across the organization by defining mutual and shared priorities across lines of business to drive impactful outcomes. Leads and coaches teams on engagements with key stakeholders to develop clear short- and long-term, execution strategies that meet customers' and Microsoft's objectives. Defines practices across teams for developing go-to-market strategies based on mutual business needs and scaling across markets and globally. **Leading and Transforming the Business** Leads the and aligns business within the segment, driving strategic direction across teams to enable revenue growth by proactively addressing business and needs. Drives orchestration amongst internal teams and holds others accountable, incorporating security adherence into accountabilities. Leads and influences across segments, partners, and internal leaders to drive growth and transformation across accounts. Aligns and gains buy-in from leaders and functions across the organization to ensure success of mutual plans and objectives. Influences the adoption of change based on breakthrough discoveries to drive impact (e.g., new operating model, improving collaboration). Drives teams to deliver success for business accountabilities while maintaining secure operations, adhering to compliance and data security standards through opportunity development. Leads teams across an organization to consistently leverage customer/partner insights and market strategies to act on opportunities to drive consumption, new solutions, and annuity business. Leads and coaches team and/or managers to maintain a growth and customer/partner mindset in response to the business environment. Empowers teams to enable Digital & Artificial Intelligence (AI) transformation for our customers and realize value from solutions that drive impactful market share growth. Directs teams to strategies and expectations for leveraging established systems, programs, and tools that enable consistent customer planning and a rhythm of business (RoB) to align end-to end solutions with go-to-market priorities across the customer portfolio and Microsoft solutions lifecycles. Defines ongoing and long-term customer value realization and satisfaction strategies contributing to net-new revenue and business growth. Holds teams accountable for customer value realization satisfaction, and coaches them on practices and semi-annual survey results. Ensures teams safeguard sensitive customer information by embedding Secure Future Initiative principles into daily sales execution (e.g., least?privilege access, secure collaboration, disciplined data sharing, and proactive risk reduction to protect customer trust). Ensures internal and external executives are aligned on key areas of improvement to further impact increasing customer value realization and satisfaction. Manages and leverages key executive relationships across customer stakeholders (business and IT) to understand drivers of business value, satisfaction, and sentiments. Maintains a strategic perspective on customers and partners to business models and helps them evolve to achieve growth and realize greater alignment between the partner and Microsoft's business models and needs. Understands portfolio of strategic partners (Global Systems Integrator (GSI), Independent Software Vendor (ISV) and drives engagement across teams. Develops and drives go-to-market sales strategy and execution to ensure success within their market based on Microsoft's and customer/partner needs. Develops strategies and coaches managers to align teams with customer, compete, and market strategies that drive sales, consumption, and Digital & Artificial Intelligence (AI) transformation solutions. Leads, collaborates with, and empowers managers to execute on strategic initiatives, achieve targets and build and manage pipelines that achieve growth and accelerate customer/partner value realization. Develops talent internally and attracts needed talent to Microsoft. Leads teams by example, driving high-value engagements and creating trusting relationships with customers and partners. Coaches teams on, and drives the execution of go-to-market based on customer, partner, and Microsoft needs, and scaling business across markets. Oversees and directs actions to drive balance in business, financial, and people outcomes. Manages customer planning across accounts to ensure that teams across organizations drive end-to-end orchestration for customer value realization and outcomes. Defines long-term expectations and goals across teams to consistently leverage opportunities and effectively develop, align, and execute on market sales strategies. **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 people. Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others. **Business Relationship Management** The ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with supervisors, staff, managers, customers, and vendors. This includes expressing empathy and compassion when dealing with the needs and problems of others, being approachable, taking time to address the concerns of coworkers, and treating others with respect and dignity. **Customer Advocacy** Knowledge of Customer Advocacy, a continuing focus on the requirements of the company’s customers, anticipating their needs, remaining sensitive to customers while performing services for them, being responsive to customer requests, generally working on their behalf. **Executive Relationships** The ability to interact confidently with leaders of the organization in order to present/defend/clarify concerns or issues regarding an existing project, program, or solution. This includes the ability to confidently address difficult questions, handle push back from a high-level audience, and maintain an executive demeanor while engaging in difficult or sometimes high-pressure situations. **Trusted Advisor** The ability to build trusted advisor status and deep relationships across stakeholders (e.g., technical decision makers, business decision makers) through an understanding of customer needs and technologies. **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications** - 12+ years of experience in enterprise technology sales, business development, account leadership, or public sector sales leadership. - Proven track record of leading and growing large-scale customer businesses within a technology, cloud, software, or digital transformation environment in Malaysia. Experience serving Public Sector customers. - Demonstrated success managing and developing high-performing sales teams with accountability for revenue, pipeline, business outcomes, and talent development. - Experience engaging and influencing C-level executives, including CIOs, CTOs, CEOs, government leaders, and other business decision-makers. - Strong strategic account management experience across complex enterprise organizations and/or public sector institutions. - Ability to drive business growth through executive relationship building, consultative selling, and long-term customer strategy development. - Experience leading large, complex sales motions involving multiple stakeholders across sales, technical, services, partner, and customer organizations. - Demonstrated ability to effectively orchestrate resources and influence stakeholders across a highly matrixed organization to achieve strategic business objectives. - Strong business acumen with demonstrated ability to manage forecasting, pipeline health, operational rigor, and business performance. - Proven growth mindset with strong learning agility, adaptability, and resilience. Ability to innovate under constraints, embrace ambiguity, and lead teams through business and technology transformation. - Strong people leader and culture role model with a track record of fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture, developing talent, and leading teams with integrity, accountability, and empathy. - Excellent communication, leadership, negotiation, stakeholder management, and executive influencing skills. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience within cloud, SaaS, enterprise software, consulting, or digital transformation industries. - Experience managing country-level or regional sales businesses. - Knowledge of cloud transformation, AI adoption, and enterprise modernization trends. - Experience selling into large enterprise customers across industries such as Financial Services, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Public Sector, or Retail. This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. --- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about [**requesting accommodations.**](https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)