Strategic Account Manager
Microsoft
Sales & Business Development
Posted on Jul 1, 2025
Strategic Account Management
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Date posted
Jun 23, 2025
Job number
1833736
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
25-50 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Sales
Discipline
Strategic Account Management
Employment type
Full-Time
Overview
The Strategic Account Management leads our most valued customers into the digital age. Embracing a challenger mindset, the successful Account Executive manages, orchestrates and leads their virtual teams and closes opportunities with customers that produce transformative business outcomes across the entire Microsoft and Microsoft Partner solution portfolio.
We are looking for a Strategic Account Management based in Belo Horizonte, in charge of Energy/Resources customers. The Strategic Account Management will be responsible for the following:
Business Manager:
Lead with Industry or Solution Sales Play - Building trusted relationships through engagements focused on driving the customers desired business outcomes using Microsoft technologies
Transformation Manager:
Reliably deliver on the customers business and technology outcomes. Continue to lead Digital Transformation discussions with customers through best in class engagements.
Account Orchestration Team Manager:
Orchestrating and coordinating the team, ensuring that the best of Microsoft and our partners is brought to bear to help our customers deliver their business goals.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- 13+ years experience working in Energy/Resources Industry, driving digital transformation, or other relevant work experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Technology, Engineering or related field AND 10+ years of experience working in Energy/Resources Industry, driving digital transformation, or other relevant work experience
OR Master's Degree in Business Administration Degree AND 9+ years experience working in Energy/Resources Industry, driving digital transformation, or relevant work experience - 6+ years experience making recommendations to and/or collaborating with mid-to-senior level executives.
- 8+ years experience closing large, complex agreements/deals.
- Fluency in English and Brazilian Portuguese
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Technology, Engineering or related field AND 13+ years of experience working in Energy/Resources Industry, driving digital transformation, or other relevant work experience OR Master's Degree in Business Administration Degree AND 10+ years experience working in Energy/Resouces Industry, driving digital transformation, or other relevant work experience.
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Responsibilities
Customer Engagement
- Proactively cultivates relationships with customers and uses Microsoft sales strategies with executive and business and technical decision makers at high levels of the customer's organization to establish alignment and secure buy-in and execution. Connects the customer to Microsoft executives. Leverages strong customer engagement strategies to build long-term relationships with customers and drive budget allocation decisions. Partners with them to foster trust and brand growth and loyalty through multiple levels (e.g., managers, executives) of the customer's organization in the assigned accounts. Assists partners in joint-selling by establishing joint desire to create new go-to markets by starting to build relationships in new markets (e.g., Vice President).
- Proactively develops a comprehensive understanding of customer's business needs and strategies for each assigned account, of their priorities, and of the industry direction. Anticipates customers needs to deliver new insights on customers business strategies and educate customers on ways to jointly address these needs. Identifies and pursues opportunities to offer highly-customizable digitalization solutions. Leverages internal influence to advocate on behalf of the customer internally (e.g., driving changes to roadmap, engaging with product groups), working to prioritize customers' requests and meeting their business needs. Creates trust to influence for impact and acts as a trusted advisor to help the customer transform its business model.
- Leads digital transformation for mother and child accounts to drive business outcomes and create business value for customers. Disrupts the mindset of customers by bringing innovative ideas that showcase the need for change and new strategic direction. Is sought out by the customer for guidance related to transformation.
- Proactively involves corporate resources and engages industry resources to drive customer transformation. Ensures line-of-business wins are captured (e.g., customer write ups) as reference for scale.
Account Management
- Develops and oversees the execution of account plans for mother and child accounts and works to ensure engagements yield high volume sales for both Microsoft and the customer that are on track with goals, budgets, and forecasts. Leads multiple, diverse and high-performing teams and coordinates with internal industry experts on account planning and execution for various accounts. Coordinates with industry experts to identify new business opportunities and drive account growth. Leads extended team and embraces partners to scale business by understanding partner goals and creating an interested in mutual business growth. Ensures sales consumption and adoption goals on target. Leverages strong sales acumen to set action items and approach to drive big bets and drive new business opportunities based on customer strategy and priorities.
- Oversees a complex/multiple account(s) and leads planning and prioritization efforts to anticipate and ensure appropriate responses to account needs. Develops strategies to manage pipeline and meet sales goals by reviewing forecasts, assessing and mitigating risks, and ensuring strategy alignment with business priorities. Leads virtual teams to properly re-adjust priorities, all while maintaining a high level of commitment and accountability. Prioritizes line of business projects to achieve business outcomes. Reduces complexity for the customer and for internal teams by prioritizing the most strategic partners to deliver outcomes.
- Expands network of key internal (e.g., Microsoft Consulting Services [MCSs]) and external partners and other business decision makers in customers' accounts to grow sales and partner impact and to provide a seamless account management experience to the customers, ensuring proper execution of core tasks and account transactions. Engages with key internal partners to promote long-term, mutually-beneficial digital transformation strategies. Expands network of influence on the board to expand reach and influence decision making. Drives joint solutions with partners.
Sales Excellence
- Actively seeks customer feedback (both formal and informal) of the mother and child accounts regarding ways to identify and understand the drivers of satisfaction and/or dissatisfaction. Helps in the creation of long-term strategies aimed at maintaining levels of customer satisfaction. Orchestrates others (e.g., Technical Account Managers [TAMs]) to anticipate issues/risks on customer satisfaction, determine the root cause of problems, remove blockers, and establish recovery action plan to improve customer's overall experience. Leverages key executive relationships to build trust with the customer organization. Proactively establishes agreement on success measures and manages execution on success measures to prevent need for recovery plans.
- Positions oneself as a thought leader and trusted advisor to executive-level business decision makerson the account. Leverages best-in-class sales and communication techniques to lead extended virtual teams and key stakeholders with deep industry expertise (e.g., industry solutions executives) to build stronger relationships with decision makers of the assigned account.
- Engages decision makers of the assigned account to clearly articulate Microsoft's value proposition aligned to customer's business objectives. Translates features into business impact and outcomes that accelerate the customer's digital presence. Develops plans to offer more targeted solutions that satisfy customers' key performance indicators (KPIs) and align the right partner solution for customer industry needs.
- Develops compelling, value-proposition presentations (e.g., with the use of business cases) and specialized business plans for customers that drive business outcomes. Demonstrates thought leadership and presents business plans to customers to generate new opportunities. Guides others on how to tailor industry-specific presentations.
- Develops and implements plans for maximizing upselling/cross-selling opportunities in certain child accounts. Drives plans to highlight Microsoft's and partners' solutions to solving additional business and technology issues and aims to expand budget allocated to Microsoft. Leverages virtual teams to identify and act on new opportunities.
Industry Knowledge
- Leverages a strong knowledge of Microsoft's product landscape, solutions, and strategy to address customer's needs. Proactively coordinates with internal and external network of industry experts (e.g., industry solutions executives, industry specific partners) to build strong knowledge of the industry and the competitive landscape. Leverages deep understanding of their customer to shares knowledge with virtual team and promote customer business perspectives.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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