Commercial Executive Lead/ Education in Istanbul, Turkey

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. 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.

The Commercial Executive Lead/ Education is a trusted advisor who leads the design and execution of the customer’s commercial strategy and negotiation, selling the right commercial solution at the right time and ensuring every deal is compliant and profitable for Microsoft.

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

Deal Making

Lead internal and external sales and management teams through commercial construct optimizing for the right level of investment and customization. Optimize deal customization leveraging price and non-price concessions. Identify business opportunities which vary based on deal lifecycle and artificial intelligence (AI). Take relevant steps to make sure deal execution is successful.

Negotiation

Define, negotiate complex commercial terms and lead the strategy for the negotiation approach by engaging with stakeholders.

Collaboration

Develop trusted relationships with key customer stakeholders, partners, Account Team in order to help our customers deliver their business goals and achieve Microsoft revenue targets.

Qualifications

Required/ Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Law, Marketing (or equivalent) AND solid sales and negotiation experience in the technology industry

• OR equivalent work experience

Additional/ Preferred Qualifications:

• Seasoned sales and negotiation professional, unafraid of conflict.

• Positive attitude and a passion for working with customers and partners.

• Comfortable speaking at all organizational levels, from the CxO to the procurement / purchasing teams.

• Able to make the best choices for the customer based on their commercial strategic needs.

• Strategic, long-term thinker able to analyze data to identify trends, risks and opportunities.

• Team player and collaborative – high performing individualists will not be successful.

• In-depth and strategic understanding of Microsoft licensing programs and contracting will be essential but not required at hiring.

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