Sales Team Manager (Retail Industry)
Sales & Business Development
Seoul, South Korea
Posted on Jul 17, 2026
Overview
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Step into a critical leadership role with the Enterprise Commercial, Retail Sales Team, where you are empowered to shape the future of retail within one of the most dynamic markets. As an ATU manager - Retail, you will play a pivotal role leading a diverse sales team at the forefront of Microsoft's presence in Korea. Your strategic vision, combined with your passion for commercial growth, will drive impact across major Korean conglomerates and accelerate growth in emerging accounts, ensuring full commercial responsibility and success.
You will have the unique opportunity to lead teams with a variety of capabilities to solve a full spectrum of customer challenges, leveraging Microsoft’s comprehensive portfolio and local market insights. Your day-to-day work will focus on orchestrating talent, resources, and go-to-market strategies to deliver business outcomes and customer value. By championing collaboration, growth-mindset, and an inclusive culture, you will cultivate an environment where both people and business flourish. Join a team where your expertise and leadership will propel Microsoft’s commercial success and redefine what’s possible for our customers in Korea.
At Microsoft, our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth‑mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress, people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.
Responsibilities
- Lead the business within the segment, creating clarity on strategic direction with managers and teams to enable revenue growth by addressing business and competitive needs. Orchestrate across internal stakeholders and partners to drive growth and transformation across accounts, while ensuring secure operations and compliance.
- Apply industry and market expertise, proactively leading teams towards identifying and capturing new opportunities in alignment with customer needs, and leveraging the full Microsoft ecosystem to drive value.
- Foster a culture of inclusion, learning, mentorship, coaching, customer-centricity, and accountability within the sales team. Support talent growth and create an environment that motivates and engages diverse teams to achieve bold goals.
- Build and maintain a broad executive network across partners and customer segments, supporting the development of strategic partnerships and ensuring continuous engagement that creates sustainable business growth.
- Influence and align key stakeholders across business units, ensuring the execution and success of short- and long-term account plans and go-to-market strategies.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 5+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 6+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years direct/formal, indirect/informal, and/or project team people management experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 6+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 10+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years experience leading teams and/or managers in a Sales organization.
- 4+ years direct/formal, indirect/informal, and/or project team people management experience.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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