Senior Account Executive

Microsoft’s Enterprise Account Team focuses on empowering customers on their AI Transformation journey.  This team is responsible for envisioning new possibilities for our customers, delivering solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and driving revenue growth for Microsoft.  

The Senior Account Executive at Microsoft leads our most valued customers into the digital age. You will have the opportunity to drive transformation in partnership with our enterprise customers with a focus on Cloud & AI, Copilot, Business Process, and Security to achieve both Microsoft and customer business outcomes. By leveraging your large, multi-functional team across the breadth of the Microsoft solutions portfolio and engaging at the most senior levels of your customer, you will bring industry-relevant solutions to help the customer adopt and embrace digital technologies. With a proven history of driving growth in market share, achieving sales targets, customer obsession, and partner collaboration, this role will give you the opportunity to leverage your extensive customer network and sales experience to execute against your customer’s account plan.

For this specific role, we are currently looking for Senior Account Executives for Malaysia FSI territory covering public, private banks and fintech companies. 

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

The Sr. Account Executive - FSI at Microsoft 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.

The Account Executive Will Be Responsible For The Following

1. Customer Outcomes Manager

• Understands customer drivers and business outcomes of digital transformation and contributes to Digital/transformation with the customer; initiates conversations with customers on digital transformation for assigned accounts. Ensures line-of-business wins are captured (e.g., testimonials) for referencing.

2. Sales Leadership Pivoting to Industry

• Develops an understanding of the customer's industry and the needs of each assigned account and identifies opportunities to drive optimizations and new digitalization solutions/ideas based on their needs and strategies; works on behalf of the customer.

3. Executes on Account Plan & Goals

• Manages and executes plans for multiple accounts to ensure Microsoft targets and customer business needs are met; coordinates with extended virtual teams and holds self and the team accountable for executing on plans and meeting customer needs; outlines revenue targets to deliver on account plans; orchestrates extended team and embraces partners to scale business; ensures sales consumption and adoption goals on target

Qualifications

Experiences Required: Education, Key Experiences, Skills and Knowledge:

• 12+ years of selling to or consulting with enterprise customers along with expertise of selling into Private and Public Sector Banks, and Fintech organizations in Malaysia. Equally considered will be 5+ years of experience driving digital transformation from within the enterprise customers.
• Bachelor’s degree or MBA preferred; or equivalent experience.
• Experience to lead multi-cultural, diverse and remote teams across different disciplines.
• Proven ability to understand customer needs, create and deliver customized, customer-focused pitches and solutions.
• Effectively navigate through ambiguity and complexities related to client management.
• Embody “we-before-me” and the “customer first” mindset that delivers long term success over short term returns.
• Solid knowledge of one industry required (i.e. Banking, Financial Services, Fintech).
• The ability to adapt one's behavior to different people and situations, while recognizing, acknowledging and understanding different perspectives.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.