Account Executive - MBA
Microsoft· Account Management
Shenzhen, Guangdong, Beijing, BeijingFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Account Executive role at Microsoft focused on building trust with executives, driving digital transformation opportunities, coordinating extended teams and partners, and delivering account plans to meet customer needs and revenue targets.
Responsibilities
- Engages with internal and external stakeholders on account planning for assigned accounts and sets strategic priorities and plan to achieve outcomes. Structures and leads account planning rhythm to set priorities, aligns Solutions/Sales Plays and opportunities, partners, focus, and resources to regularly update the plan, ensuring that the extended virtual team (inclusive of partners) and other stakeholders are working toward common goals. Ensures teams are documenting in the Account Plan.
- Builds and maintains a network of internal (e.g., Industry Solutions [IS]) and external partners to drive opportunities and influence impact for multiple assigned accounts. Leverages relationship with partners to develop and share customer business and technology transformation plans that support mutual needs. Proactively engages and works with partners’ sellers directly to drive non-qualified opportunity momentum and deal closure inclusive of partners.
- Manages and executes plans utilizing common sales and delivery methodology for the Microsoft sales organization 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 achievement of revenue and consumption targets and drives integrated joint account governance through customer plan on regular frequency.
- Develops a strong understanding of the customer's business and technology needs and the needs of each assigned account. Identifies opportunities to drive optimizations and new business and technology solutions/ideas based on their needs and strategies. Works on behalf of the customer. If industry aligned, also develops an understanding of the customer's industry.
- Builds and maintains relationship with executives and business and technical decision makers at high levels of the customer's organization through consultative engagement to establish trust and credibility in future interactions. Continues to build reputation with customers during interactions by being customer-focused, consistently honoring commitments, explaining technical concepts relevant to the customer, and connecting the customer to Microsoft executives. Leverages selling methods (e.g., digital) to network and create a pipeline, consume account-based marketing outputs, and reflect the engagement strategy in our customer plan.
- Understands customer drivers of business transformation and contributes to technology/transformation with the customer. Initiates conversations with customers on digital transformation for assigned accounts. Mitigates competitive risk. Ensures line-of-business wins are captured (e.g., testimonials) for referencing through insightful listening.
- Seeks customer feedback (both formal and informal) of assigned accounts to identify and understand the drivers of satisfaction and/or dissatisfaction. Leverages internal resources to support customer needs. Orchestrates others (e.g., CSAM) to anticipate issues/risks on customer satisfaction, determine the root cause of problems, remove blockers, and establish recovery action plans as need to improve customers' overall experience. Proactively establishes agreement on success measures and manages execution on success measures to prevent need for recovery plans.
Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Business Administration - OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience working in a relevant industry (e.g., financial services, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, energy, government, education) and/or driving digital transformation - OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years account management experience OR equivalent.
Skills
Required:Account planningPartner managementExecutive relationship management
Benefits
- Equal opportunity employer commitments described by Microsoft in the job description
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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