EMEA Cloud & AI Platforms GTM Activation Leader

MicrosoftIrelandOn-siteFull-timeSenior, 5–8 yearsListed 1 hour ago

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<b>Overview</b><br><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&amp;C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team—one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation.SME&amp;C is more than a sales organization—it’s a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusion. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do. If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how SME&amp;C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business.The Sales Enablement &amp; Operations (SE&amp;O) team plays an essential role in translating Microsoft’s Commercial Strategy to a local execution plan and driving operational excellence to achieve the greatest results possible. Our team drives cross-Region, cross-Area and cross-Subsidiary insight and execution excellence, bringing strategy and priorities to life by accelerating the pace of transformation and enabling Microsoft to deliver business impact at scale.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As the Execution Go to Market (GTM) Leader for Commercial Solution Areas (CSA) in the Americas, you will oversee the Execution GTM Manager who accelerate revenue growth, boost field agility, and deliver results with our field sellers by deepening your partnership with key stakeholders across the Americas, Sales Excellence, sales, marketing, consulting, customer success, and partner functions, supporting One-Microsoft. You will focus on driving alignment across processes and tools, leading with a cross-solution approach to upsizing pipelines, ensuring effective communication and flawless execution, and leveraging insights to drive data-driven decision-making. This role is critical to driving customer adoption at scale, driven by deep solution play domain, product truth, and partnerships with sales, marketing, operations, and sales excellence.We’re seeking an accomplished and visionary leader to join our Go-to-Market (GTM) team. This role calls for a strategic thinker who can inspire teams, bring diverse functions into alignment, and lead success through innovation and clear, well-judged action. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As a leader, you will guide the team in tracking success criteria and performance metrics, managing consistent storytelling, simplifying complex concepts, and ensuring actionable in-market insights. The opportunity will allow you to accelerate your leadership journey, deepen your strategic acumen, and cultivate a culture of collaboration and excellence. This role offers flexibility, including the option to work up to 100% from home.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.</span></p><br><br><b>Responsibilities</b><br><ul style="list-style-type: revert;"><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You will be a primary product spokesperson and advocate for a Product Manager-owned portfolio. You'll draw on product, industry and market-landscape knowledge, together with technical expertise, to develop a localised differentiation strategy, position the value proposition and tailor messaging to both internal and external audiences.</span></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You will own accountability for defined scorecard metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for a product/service, and plan and execute business strategy in the highest-priority areas and/or where the line of business can see the greatest impact. You'll partner with the relevant leadership team(s) as required to ensure alignment with area/subsidiary goals and move business priorities forward.</span></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You will contribute to the creation of strategic go-to-market (GTM) plans for initiatives across sales, marketing, consulting, customer success and partner functions. You'll also guide and support one commercial partner (OCP) in recruiting and enabling partners to achieve target capacity and quality, in line with subsidiary scorecard metrics, targets and attainment strategies.</span></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In collaboration with sales partners, you will serve as an orchestrator between the Business Group (BG) Lead and the area/subsidiary to land sales programmes with clarity, and ensure the channel and sellers are equipped with the knowledge, skills and resources to sell.</span></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You will contribute to the definition and implementation of market differentiation strategy and white-space growth opportunities for sellers within a product line/segment, and support three-horizon business development planning.</span></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You will contribute to a pipeline of feedback from sales to supply chain, support near-term supply forecasts, and foster alignment to ensure large or unique hardware and capacity needs are landed.</span></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You will exemplify Microsoft Values, Culture and Leadership Principles, and create clarity by building a shared understanding.</span></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Embody our Culture and Values.</span></li></ul><br><br><b>Qualifications</b><br><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Required/minimum qualifications</span></p><ul style="list-style-type: revert;"><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Extensive experience in marketing strategy, business planning, sales enablement, business development, technical pre-sales or a related field.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Preferred Qualifications (PQs)</span></p><ul style="list-style-type: revert;"><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Deep and wide-ranging experience in marketing strategy, business planning, sales enablement, business development, technical pre-sales or a related field, together with a degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.</span></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Significant experience managing and growing a product/solution portfolio, and building demand and accelerating pipeline within a multinational or matrixed organisation.</span></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Proven experience leading and developing people.</span></li></ul> <br><br><p>Field Product Marketing M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across Ireland is € 113,600.00 - € 213,700.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. </p><p></p> <p>Find additional benefits and pay information here:<br><a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/ireland-corporate-pay.html">https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/ireland-corporate-pay.html</a></p><br>Field Product Marketing M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across United Kingdom is £ 100,400.00 - £ 200,500.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. <p></p> <p>Find additional benefits and pay information here:<br><a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/united-kingdom-corporate-pay.html">https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/united-kingdom-corporate-pay.html</a></p><br><p>This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.</p><br><hr><br><p>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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html"><b><u>requesting accommodations.</u></b></a></p>