Daily Sustainability Job Post

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Position Overview:

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We consider our mission statement a commitment to our customers and each day we strive to achieve it. We work across geographies, with customers of all sizes, incredible partners, a talented team and with respect for diversity and the communities in which we operate.

Microsoft has become a corporate leader in environmental sustainability by constantly striving to minimize the environmental footprint of its business operations while maximizing the positive environmental impacts of its products, policies and partnerships. As the environmental challenges facing the world grow, so too has Microsoft’s commitment to ensuring that the company’s activities are in-line with the best available science and the expectations of leading stakeholder communities.

In the Worldwide Commercial Business (WCB) we have an opportunity to broaden the impact of these sustainability efforts through customer and partner enablement. This will be accomplished by leveraging our own products and learnings as well as a growing number of sustainability solutions and services from our commercial partner ecosystem.

We are looking for a Sustainability Solutions Strategy Lead to be an integral part of driving these endeavours forward as part of a core WCB sustainability team. Success in this role will depend greatly on:

– A strong ability to interface and coordinate action with sustainability teams across the Microsoft organization

– The capacity to communicate insights, learning and vision with all levels of internal and external stakeholders

– Adopting a growth mindset including a willingness to experiment and fail fast in what is a quickly changing and entrepreneurial work environment

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute Microsoft’s global sustainability technical sales strategy
• Grow the technical sustainability-oriented skillsets of our field, customers and partners
• Build a sustainability technical sales community focused on driving customer and partner engagements
• Drive field, customer and partner communications and updates
• Lead sustainability tracks at key 1st-party customer and partner events (e.g. MSReady, IoT Developer Summit, etc.) and land a strategy for 3rd-party customer and partner events
• Enable the sale of 1st and 3rd party sustainability solutions by providing expertise and insights throughout the customer journey
• Sustainability solutions technical compete execution for lift and shift and new ideation
• Align WCB sustainability efforts with the broader company, interfacing with our product marketing, global sales & marketing, legal and engineering organizations
• Act as a strong and credible technical subject matter expert both internally and externally on our 1st and 3rd party sustainability solutions
• Technical advisory support of investments, innovation projects and business development projects

Qualifications

• Experience in developing globally scalable solutions and measuring against sales KPIs
• Experience in a technical skillset with a focus on Azure and integrations into the broader Microsoft platform
• 7+ years professional experience in customer or partner-facing technology roles
• Track record of developing globally scalable solutions and measuring against sales KPIs
• Proven ability leading technical architectural design sessions and translating business requirements into technical flows, architectures and implementation planning
• Experience organizing presentations from ideation to execution to a variety of audience technical skill levels
• Passion for sustainability with experience working on sustainability solutions or projects a plus
• Top-notch executive engagement skills with an ability to establish trusted advisor relationships with business decision makers
• Comfortable in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, bringing a high level of enthusiasm, creativity, self-motivation, and resourcefulness
• Plays well with others and thrives in cross-team environments

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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