As a Deal Manager, you will be responsible for creating licensing solutions for our Commercial Enterprise accounts in EMEA, with a primary focus in Europe North (Nordics, BeLux, Central and Eastern Europe). Your responsibilities also include providing feedback on Online Services, Consulting Services, licensing strategies, and business opportunities/challenges, along with piloting alternative licensing offerings. Most of your customers will have unique commercial and contractual needs that you will address in collaboration with the with account teams and the senior leadership team in the region. You will operate as the subject matter expert and provide leadership and coaching to the local sales and licensing community and be a trusted advisor for regional management with respect to complex Online Services, Consulting Services and licensing-related topics. You will be regularly involved in direct customer-facing high stakes negotiations.
The responsibility that comes with this role requires a background in large enterprise sales. A background in Cloud technologies and a strong perspective on Digital Transformation are highly welcome, as Microsoft continues to assist customers in their journey to the cloud and helps them digitally transform their businesses. The person in this is expected to negotiate at the General Manager and Senior Executive level, both internally and externally.
Deal Managers make empowered decisions on commercial solutions (products and services) using business judgment, financial analysis, technical knowledge, licensing and monetization principles, balancing customers' and Microsoft’s interests. This requires strong engagement and partnership with Field Sales, Product Groups, Engineering, CELA, and other corporate functions. Deal Desk work closely with field sellers and customers to negotiate deal construct, pricing, and terms & conditions to close complex deals.
As the scope of our business expands, there is an increasing reliance on the Deal Desk to design, approve, facilitate, and test innovative deals and commercial models in addition to maintaining its core strength of securing company revenue and profitability. Deal Desk encompasses more than 300 employees worldwide. The success and reputation of the Deal Desk is well established across all parts of Microsoft for driving billions of dollars of “good business”. Deal Desk is part of Microsoft’s Worldwide Commercial Finance organization sitting in Finance and reporting to Microsoft’s CFO , Amy Hood.
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