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Senior Sales Director

Microsoft

Microsoft

Sales & Business Development
Posted on Jul 8, 2025

Senior Sales Director

Shanghai, China

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Date posted
Jul 08, 2025
Job number
1844402
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
25-50 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Sales
Discipline
Sales Management
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

Microsoft’s Enterprise Account Team focuses on partnering with customers to achieve strategic goals. This team is responsible for providing differentiated customer experience for our customers, delivering solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and driving revenue growth for Microsoft.

As China EC Senior Sales Director, you will drive transformation propelling both Microsoft and our clients from Life Science, Retail, and SOE towards achieving business outcomes. You will lead a comprehensive team of sellers to execute Go to Market strategy in multiple segments.

Leveraging your multi-functional team across the breadth of the Microsoft product portfolio, engage at the most senior levels of your customer and deliver industry-relevant solutions to help the customer adopt and embrace business transformation.

With a proven history of driving growth in market share, achieving sales targets, customer obsession, and partner collaboration, this role will leverage your extensive customer network and sales team management experience to execute against aggressive sales plan.

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.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 13+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations
  • OR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 10+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations
  • OR equivalent experience
  • 5+ years direct team management experience in a sales organization, experience in leading multi-level sales organization is highly preferred.
  • 5+ years sales experience in either of following industries: retail/CPG/FMCG, life science with proven tracking record.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver business growth through leading and empowering account teams. You will lead execution of Go to Market (GTM) to deliver customers’ business outcomes across their entire lifecycle.
  • Accelerate customer satisfaction and model executive engagements with business decision makers and C-level executives.
  • Win against competition by establishing Microsoft as market leaders, maximizing Customer spend, achieving targets (billed revenue, consumption, and adoption).
  • Lead partnership across the organization to achieve business value for customers and business results for Microsoft.
  • Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring of your team.
  • Develop, empower and transform your team to meet industry and customer needs by hiring, retaining, and developing talent
  • Apply industry and market expertise, leading a team to identify solutions to drive new opportunities in alignment with customers’ needs and develop industry-specific capabilities and expertise in relevant local trade, regulatory, and policy environments (e.g., opening doors and removing barriers for sales teams, partners, and customers) across geographic areas.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

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