Client Director Manufacturing
Microsoft
Posted on Aug 1, 2025
Client Director Manufacturing
Zürich, Switzerland
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Date posted
Aug 01, 2025
Job number
1851657
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
25-50 %
Role type
People Manager
Profession
Sales
Discipline
Strategic Account Management
Employment type
Full-Time
Overview
Microsoft’s Enterprise Account Team focuses on partnering with customers to achieve strategic goals. This team is responsible for providing a differentiated Customer experience for our customers, delivering solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and driving revenue growth 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.
Qualifications
- Numerous years of experience in working in the Manufacturing industry and/or driving digital transformation
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree OR equivalent experience AND several years of experience making recommendations to and/or collaborating with mid-to-senior level executives
- Multiple years of experience closing large, complex agreements/deals
- First years of people management experience
- preferrably German language skills
Responsibilities
- You will deliver business growth through leading and empowering account teams. Lead execution of Go to Market (GTM) to achieve customer business outcomes across the entire customer lifecycle.
- You will accelerate customer satisfaction and model executive engagements with business decision makers and C-Level executives.
- You will win against competition by establishing Microsoft as market leader, maximizing Customer spend, achieving targets (billed revenue, consumption, and adoption).
- You will lead partnership across the organization to achieve business value for customers and business results for Microsoft.
- You will cultivate relationships and use Microsoft sales strategies throughout multiple levels of the customer's organization (e.g., executives, business, and technical decision makers) to establish strong alignment on long-term goals and secure buy-in and execution.
- You will use business cases to develop and present compelling value proposition presentations and specialized business plans for customers that showcase Microsoft's products and solutions, generate business and upsells, and generate new opportunities.
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
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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.