Start date: May 2024
Duration: 6 months, part-time
Type of Employment: Student Worker
Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.
An Account Executive Develops and oversees the execution of account plans for multiple 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. Understands customer drivers of digital transformation and leverages understanding to engage internal teams to accelerate the customer's digital transformation and strategy. Cultivates relationships and uses Microsoft sales strategies throughout multiple levels of the customer's organization to establish strong alignment on long-term goals and secure buy in and execution. Leverages knowledge of and experience with Microsoft's product landscape, solutions, and strategy to address customers' needs.
At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.
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.
- You seek feedback from customers to understand the drivers of satisfaction and establish action plans to improve their overall experience.
- You orchestrate extended virtual teams and key stakeholders to engage decision makers of assigned accounts.
- You share and recommend Microsoft solutions to customers, and develop value-proposition presentations and specialized business plans for customers that drive business outcomes to generate business and upsells.
- You develop strategies to secure buy-in and execution of plans and aim to identify new opportunities within assigned accounts.
- You coordinate with internal industry experts to gather industry data of assigned accounts and improve planning.
- Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, Business Administration or related field with at least one semester/quarter remaining after internship.
- Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship.
- Strong Desire and business acument for consultative solution selling
- Exceptional negotitation, customer service, and interpersonal skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical, and presentation skills
- You must be legally authorised to work in Germany to be eligible for this role. (Legally authorised = has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit)
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