Partner Solution Sales - Azure

Microsoft

2 - 5 years

Mumbai

Posted: 30/06/2025

Job Description

Overview

As a Partner Solution Sales resource, your responsibilities will be to develop and execute a Partner Solution Sales and Territory plan with partners, focused on Azure. You will be expected to drive sales through both partner-led and co-sell initiatives to achieve quarterly Azure Consumed Revenue (ACR) targets.

As a Leader of Solution Area Sales, your role involves driving your partner's sales execution at a large scale. Your deep solution area expertise and business acumen will be leveraged to drive revenue impact month-on-month and quarter-on-quarter. Success in your role will be achieved through skilling in Azure and executing across the Microsoft Customer Execution Model. You will be responsible for creating and executing a well-designed Azure focused plan. Additionally, you will actively seek to enhance your career path through recommended and additional training.

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

Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)

8+ years of core sales, channel sales, industry or solution selling, business development experience.

OR Bachelor's Degree in Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, Business Administration or related field AND 4+ years of core sales, channel sales, industry or solution selling, business development experience
OR Master's Degree in Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, Business Administration or related field AND 3+ years of core sales, channel sales, industry or solution selling, business development experience

Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

12+ years of core sales, channel sales, industry or solution selling, business development experience

OR Bachelor's Degree in Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, Business Administration or related field AND 7+ years of core sales, channel sales, industry or solution selling, business development experience
OR Master's Degree in Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, Business Administration or related field AND 5+ years of core sales, channel sales, industry or solution selling, business development experience.

Responsibilities

Collaboration & Co-Sell

Leads partner co-selling efforts with portfolio of assigned partners to drive sales pipeline. Drives the development and execution of co-sell strategies that outline activities to meet and/or exceed Microsoft and partner sales targets. Leads collaboration efforts between internal and external stakeholders to accelerate deal execution, proactively leverage investments, and accelerate sales. Shares innovation in novel sales best practices that drive business forward and influences others across the market.

Proactively tracks cloud solution area co-sell pipeline performance and addresses low performance through correction of errors (CoE) efforts. Proactively tracks partner sales capabilities and capacities for sales practice acceleration and growth, meanwhile providing insights into future practices. Proactively tracks partner incentive utilization and impact on pipeline velocity, and influences the partner to improve performance. Ensures partner is tracking to target by solution area. Tracks quarterly forecast to ensure it meets and/or exceeds revenue accountability.

Partner Engagement

Proactively develops and shares best practices for co-selling with partners and global peers through community forums, contributes to listening circles and contributes to and influences worldwide learning initiatives as a subject matter expert. Shares market local solution area business momentum insights and corporate research for customer demand.

Works with prioritized solution area-aligned partners to identify and cultivate new opportunities with customers. Proactively drives the qualified partner pipeline and progresses it through the sales cycle. Ensures partner adoption of investment levers to create opportunities and accelerate deal velocity

Drives the acceleration of cloud solution area sales practice with partners, with a focus on pipeline, go-to-market (GTM) sales and co-sell execution. Proactively drives a predictable cloud solution area rhythm of business (RoB) and anticipates and mitigates performance issues with partners to ensure delivery of cloud solution area partner targets. Proactively collaborates with and influences segment sales teams to drive co-sell performance with partners through joint execution.

Partner Solution Area Sales Plan

Proactively creates joint solution area sales plans in partnership with prioritized partners in the solution area portfolio relevant to customer segment to address complex customer needs and drive quarterly revenue accountability. Owns the identification, understanding, and evaluation of partners' cloud solution area sales practice(s). Leads the strategic alignment with organizational units and overall partner business plans to meet sales objectives.

Sales Process & Sales Management

Guides partners on solution play and ensures partners have capability and capacity to deliver the value proposition of the solution play. Leads pipeline management meetings and unblocks deals by connecting with Microsoft resources. Drives creative and advanced plans leveraging all of the Microsoft internal resources (e.g., investments, funding) and coaches the partner on how to accelerate their sale process using these tools/resources. Drives business reviews with key partner stakeholders and holds partners accountable for delivery against agreed plan.

Maintains an in-depth understanding of, and upholds Microsoft's current compliance processes.

Proactively initiates solution area sales planning with assigned partners and ensures coverage to support targets. Monitors, manages, and provides insights into a predictable sales pipeline rhythm of business (RoB) with assigned solution area partners. Manages and support top partner deals and overall partner revenue aligned to solution area.

About Company

Microsoft Corporation is a leading American multinational technology company founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is best known for its software products, including the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office Suite, and Azure cloud services. The company also produces hardware like the Surface devices and owns LinkedIn, GitHub, and the Xbox gaming brand. Microsoft is one of the world's most valuable companies, playing a key role in personal computing, enterprise software, AI, and cloud computing.