Job Opportunity at Microsoft

Here is the latest Job Opportunity at Microsoft . The company is hiring a Solution Area Specialist (Education).

This is a critical role focused on delivering digital transformation and cloud services to our customers (Public Sector) working closely with several stakeholders.

The position is available in the following locations:

• Abidjan, Lagunes, Côte d’Ivoire
• Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
• Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
• Mauritius (Multiple Locations)
• Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
• Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
• Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Responsibilities

• Expanding strategic education customer relationships to drive larger impact and targeted business growth and drive the jointly agreed customer multi-year Digital Transformation business strategy, delivering agreed outcomes while leading a virtual internal and external team aligned to key audience and stakeholders.
• Identify decision makers and influencers to carry your short-term and long-term digital strategy forward across, including but not limited to system leadership, building/institution leader, IT decision makers, campus administrators, faculty, instructional technologists, educators, and professional development partners.
• Disrupting the mindset of customers and sales teams by bringing innovative ideas that highlight case for change and Microsoft’s differentiated value proposition for education.
• Delivering Education Transformation Framework narrative and leveraging it to deepen success engagements with customers.
• Developing account engagement, consumption strategies, customer training, and change management (Professional Development) plans to support best practices and capacity building that:
• • Drive student and educator usage by focusing on strategic workloads in Microsoft 365
  • Grow usage of integrated learning solutions on the Microsoft platform
  • Grow and retain Windows 10 device share, by creating demand for experiences specific to Windows, including new device activations 

• Establishing Microsoft as a leader in education transformation and future ready skills championing Microsoft’s commitment to empower every with Career Coach, Minecraft: Education Edition, certifications, and more.
• Support education life-long learning and future-ready skilling focus across the spectrum of our audience engagements, from high level conversations on skills/employability with leaders, to getting students excited about computer science, and empowering students to graduate with industry recognized skills and ongoing learning and certification
• Remaining focused on customer facing time by running a healthy and predictable business that delivers on a jointly agreed customer Digital Transformation strategy maintaining rigorous sales process compliance.

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