Senior Sales Director - (Professional Services)
Microsoft
Sales & Business Development
Posted on Sep 6, 2025
Senior Sales Director - (Professional Services)
Issy Les Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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Date posted
Sep 05, 2025
Job number
1871507
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
25-50 %
Role type
People Manager
Profession
Sales
Discipline
Sales Management
Employment type
Full-Time
Overview
As part of the Enterprise Commercial organization and serving as a Senior Sales Director, you are responsible for building, mentoring, and leading a team of Account Executives and Account Technology Strategists. Your primary objective is to drive go-to-market sales strategy and execution, ensuring success within the market by aligning with both Microsoft’s and customer/partner needs. You provide leadership and strategic direction across teams, while defining ongoing and long-term strategies for customer value realization and satisfaction that contribute to revenue growth for our IT Services, Food & Facilities management, Fintech markets business.
Leveraging your industry and market expertise, you proactively guide teams in identifying solutions and strategies that generate new opportunities in alignment with customer requirements. You lead and coach teams in developing and implementing scalable go-to-market initiatives to maximize revenue, consumption, and growth across various solution areas. By setting clear expectations, you establish approaches for teams to leverage digital and artificial intelligence transformation drivers relevant to customers and partners across business units.
You foster a culture of inclusion, continuous learning, mentorship, coaching, customer-centricity, accountability, collaboration, and high achievement. Additionally, you oversee business planning and alignment beyond fiscal year boundaries across segments, partners, and teams to support organizational growth and transformation. You define standards for sales execution and hold teams accountable for results, while building and maintaining an extensive executive network, including partners. This role also entails people management responsibilities such as driving employee growth and development, overseeing project execution, and managing performance.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
Master's Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 7+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 8+ 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.
3+ years direct/formal people management experience.
Responsibilities
Accelerating Growth
Leverages industry and market expertise, proactively leading teams to identify solutions to drive new opportunities and strategies in alignment with customer needs. Establishes a technology-driven professional presence in the market and represents Microsoft as a thought leader who can articulate connections between Microsoft solutions to relevant business contexts with industry and market leaders (e.g., speaking at external events, sitting on boards). Pursues industry of choice to create more strategic relevance and value with customers. Coaches teams to consider global perspectives in best practices in local trade, regulatory, and policy environments across geographic areas. Coaches managers and teams to tailor customer engagement for specific industries with relevant customer references and socializes best practices across their organization. Identifies and creates customer references for landmark successes in one or more strategic industries to develop a competitive advantage and to articulate ability to deliver customer value to achieve outcomes. Leverages experiences and expertise with customers across industry to influence the development of programs that help scale and accelerate successful engagements.
Defines expectations and sets strategies for teams to leverage drivers of Digital & Artificial Intelligence (AI) transformation relevant to their customers and partners across business units. Acts as a thought leader in optimally leveraging transformation across solution areas. Consults with customers and internal/external Partners to ensure successful value realization in delivery of solutions to customers. Drives and coaches teams to orchestrate across units and Partners to leverage and accelerate innovative transformation opportunities. Coaches managers to ensure internal partners are educated on industry trends and solutions. Develops and shares strategies for expanding relationships across customers' lines of business that enable innovative solutions, deliver business value, and create market growth. Coaches and supports teams to leverage industry experts within MS to identify and execute on transformation opportunities.
Leads and coaches teams on the development and implementation of scalable go-to-market for maximizing revenue, consumption, and growth across solution areas. Shares best practices and holds managers and teams accountable for leveraging market-specific insights and highlighting solutions that solve business and technology challenges. Coaches teams to identify and proactively engage influencers to drive Microsoft's perspective across accounts and to utilizing available programs to drive customers to expand budget. Sets the expectations for and enables teams to be self-sufficient in leveraging digital assets and data insights, and exhausting all opportunities to develop relationships with new and existing customers.
Driving Success with and Through Others
Fosters and defines a culture of inclusion, learning, mentorship, coaching, customer-centricity, accountability, collaboration, and achievement of bold goals. Influences and inspires managers and teams across the organization to motivate, engage, and bring teams together. Leads a diverse and inclusive workforce, creates and hires diverse teams, and fosters an inclusive working environment via well-established inclusive behaviors. Develops and rewards high-performing individuals and teams, hires diverse talent, prioritizes development, leads by example, and prepares people for more senior positions in other parts of the organization.
Builds and maintains a broad executive network inclusive of partners. Cultivates an ecosystem of customer and external partners and defines where there is a need for partners to act in Microsoft's market to accelerate consumption and/or growth. Inspires and influences engagements between partners and executives on long-term business planning, development of scalable strategic partnerships, and influencing customer needs and outcomes across one or more industries. Ensures teams across their organization maintain relationships with an ongoing long-term focus that looks past quarterly and annual targets. Models and creates a rhythm of business (RoB) with customers and partners that enables continuous engagement and future strategic planning.
Leads business planning and alignment beyond fiscal year boundaries across segments, partners, and teams to drive growth and transformation, define expectations for sale execution, and holds teams accountable for results. Defines where orchestration is needed for success, creates new points of entry for integration and collaboration, sets the tone for an organizational culture of inclusion. Shares best practices and a global perspective across the organization for managing competing priorities, reducing complexity for customers, and mitigating execution challenges, while maintaining a high level of accountability. Drives clarity when leading engagements across the organization by defining mutual and shared priorities across lines of business to drive impactful outcomes. Leads and coaches teams on engagements with key stakeholders to develop clear short- and long-term, execution strategies that meet customers' and Microsoft's objectives. Defines best practices across teams for developing go-to-market strategies based on mutual business needs and scaling across markets and globally.
Leading and Transforming the Business
Defines ongoing and long-term customer value realization and satisfaction strategies contributing to net-new revenue and business growth. Holds teams accountable for customer value realization satisfaction, and coaches them on best practices and semi-annual survey results. Ensures internal and external executives are aligned on key areas of improvement to further impact increasing customer value realization and satisfaction. Manages and leverages key executive relationships across customer stakeholders (business and IT) to understand drivers of business value, satisfaction, and sentiments. Maintains a strategic perspective on customers and partners to business models and helps them evolve to achieve growth, be competitive, and realize greater alignment between the partner and Microsoft's business models and needs. Understands portfolio of strategic partners (Global Systems Integrator (GSI), Independent Software Vendor (ISV) and drives engagement across teams.
Develops and drives go-to-market sales strategy and execution to ensure success within their market based on Microsoft's and customer/partner needs. Develops strategies and coaches managers to align teams with customer, compete, and market strategies that drive sales, consumption, and Digital & Artificial Intelligence (AI) transformation solutions. Leads, collaborates with, and empowers managers to execute on strategic initiatives, achieve targets and build and manage pipelines that achieve growth and accelerate customer/partner value realization. Develops talent internally and attracts needed talent to Microsoft. Leads teams by example, driving high-value engagements and creating trusting relationships with customers and partners. Coaches teams on, and drives the execution of go-to-market based on customer, partner, and Microsoft needs, and scaling business across markets. Oversees and directs actions to drive balance in business, financial, and people outcomes. Manages customer planning across accounts to ensure that teams across organizations drive end-to-end orchestration for customer value realization and outcomes. Defines long-term expectations and goals across teams to consistently leverage opportunities and effectively develop, align, and execute on market sales strategies.
Leads the and aligns business within the segment, driving strategic direction across teams to enable revenue growth by proactively addressing business and competitive needs. Drives orchestration amongst internal teams and holds others accountable. Leads and influences across segments, partners, and internal leaders to drive growth and transformation across accounts. Aligns and gains buy-in from leaders and functions across the organization to ensure success of mutual plans and objectives. Influences the adoption of change based on breakthrough discoveries to drive impact (e.g., new operating model, improving collaboration). Drives teams to deliver success for business accountabilities. Leads teams across an organization to consistently leverage customer/partner insights and market strategies to act on opportunities to drive consumption, new solutions, and annuity business. Leads and coaches team and/or managers to maintain a growth and customer/partner mindset in response to the business environment. Empowers teams to enable Digital & Artificial Intelligence (AI) transformation for our customers and realize value from solutions that drive impactful market share growth. Directs teams to strategies and expectations for leveraging established systems, programs, and tools that enable consistent customer planning and a rhythm of business (RoB) to align end-to end solutions with go-to-market priorities across the customer portfolio and Microsoft solutions lifecycles.
People Management
Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model: Live our culture. Embody our values. Practice our leadership principles. Coach: Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries. Help the team adapt and learn. Care: Attract and retain great people. Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others.
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.