Large Opportunity Manager-Microsoft

Position Title: Large Opportunity Manager (LOM)
Reports To: Regional Lead
Organisation: Microsoft

Job Profile:

The Mid Market workgroup manages the Medium Business Segment to maximize revenue and revenue growth, and customer and partner satisfaction. This includes demand creation, sales force planning and opportunity pipeline management. The team oversees the Customer Relationship Marketing execution for New and Existing Customers and ensures Customers retention and nurturing.
The LOM is responsible for managing Large Opportunities. These LOs will typically be created either by the Telesales team or by a Partner and will involve complex infrastructure, MBS products, competitive situations, license compliance situations, EA or complex solutions involving Server and solution selling. The LOM will engage with both customers and Partners to ensure that the LO in managed in the correct way through to closure. The LOM is “partner independent” and will recommend the best partner for the customer environment working with other MM resources to do this. It is expected that a substantial proportion of the LOM’s time is customer facing.


Educational Qualifications and Experience:

· 5 - 8 years of relevant experience.
· The ideal candidate will have a BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience combined with a minimum of 5 years relevant sales experience in medium complex customer account environments. Candidate must have a history of successful and proven performance working with companies, dealing with CXO level, and consistently exceeding objectives.
· Required Bachelors Degree (BS/BA) in Business, Marketing or computer-related
· Knowledge of Microsoft’s products & channel model.