Commercial Executive

Overview

As a Commercial Executive within the Retail & Consumer Goods (RCG) Organization

, you will play a strategic role in helping customers and Microsoft achieve successful business outcomes through innovative commercial solutions and deal strategy. Working closely with sales teams, business leaders, customer stakeholders, partners, and internal support organizations, you will shape and execute commercial strategies that accelerate cloud growth, drive revenue, and support long-term customer success.

In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor on complex commercial engagements, leveraging a deep understanding of customer business objectives, investment priorities, and technology transformation goals to structure solutions that create value for both customers and Microsoft. You will collaborate across account teams to develop commercial plans, optimize deal execution, and ensure opportunities are aligned with customer priorities, budget considerations, and growth objectives.

You will provide leadership throughout the deal lifecycle by identifying risks, evaluating financial and contractual implications, and ensuring compliance with Microsoft policies, regulatory requirements, and commercial best practices. Through strategic analysis, business insight, and strong cross-functional collaboration, you will help drive successful negotiations, maximize customer investment, and support the adoption of Microsoft's cloud and AI-powered solutions.

Success in this role requires strong business acumen, commercial negotiation expertise, financial and contractual analysis skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders across complex enterprise environments. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker who can balance customer needs, business objectives, and operational excellence while helping customers realize value through Microsoft's technology investments.

Responsibilities

• Deep Proactive Engagement
• Ensures that customer, partner, support, and account teams deliver value during lifecycle management planning and that they are aligned with teams on customer/partner priorities, strategies, and budget to better structure deals that drive annuity and cloud growth. Initiates and develops challenger relationships with customers/partner to understand their priorities and strategies, and structures deals that drive value and contribute to Microsoft growth through attainment of revenue-based, share-based, and/or consumption-based quota with minimal guidance. Demonstrates empathy with high-level customers and partners. Grows share and adoption while simultaneously driving business value for customers. Proactively identifies and balances customer/partner and Microsoft needs when crafting value-based solutions. Represents customer and partner requirements in proposals. Translates requirements into proposals. Identifies issues and potential recommendations for internal stakeholders to help solve customer/partner issues. Leverages knowledge about customer/partner priorities and industry challenges to solve problems. Simplifies commercial strategies for customers and partners with minimal guidance. Orchestrates the right resources to solve partner issues in deals. Engages with partners (e.g., scale partner, cloud solution provider [CSP]) in effective ways to establish customer solutions for the benefit of all parties independently.
• Leverages knowledge of best practices and strategies to accomplish goals. Understands product strategy per solution area. Analyzes competitive positioning and use cases independently. Possesses and utilizes knowledge of industry, competition, and Microsoft offering to accomplish goals. Provides feedback to align pricing and offers commercial strategies to meet customer needs. Provides alternatives and recommendations internally and externally. Demonstrates agility in aligning business strategies within region. Actively pursues learning opportunities and reinforces understanding of local subsidiary strategy. Helps other team members understand Microsoft/customer business strategies and why they are important for accomplishing goals. Creates clarity in their work and encourages others to do the same. Ensures that their peers follow through on plans.
• Leads collaborations with sellers and business stakeholders in order to achieve revenue targets. Leverages critical resources (e.g., deal desk, sales support, partners, finance) to drive business outcomes. Contributes to high levels of strategic conversations internally or externally. Proactively engages with others to align commercial strategy to customer needs. Participates in the planning and execution of strategies with partners to ensure that solutions are aligned to customer commercial strategic needs. Applies deep knowledge of commercial solutions and expected outcomes to determine how commercial deals should be constructed to best meet customer needs. Drives accountability in resolving cross-functional issues to successful conclusion. Engages in feedback loop to improve/simplify deal construct to meet business needs or market opportunities. Fosters overall success by driving strong team collaboration, cross segment and cross group collaboration. Leads teams by sharing knowledge, supporting the onboarding of others in the same role, and proactively responding to feedback.

Qualifications

• Required/minimum qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Law, Marketing, Finance, Communication, Education (or equivalent) or related field AND 5+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience OR 7+ years sales and negotiation experience OR equivalent experience.
• Additional or preferred qualifications
• Master's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Law, Marketing (or equivalent) AND 6+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Law, Marketing, Finance, Communication, Education (or equivalent) or related field AND 7+ years sales and negotiation experience or related work or internship experience OR 9+ years sales and negotiation experience OR equivalent experience.
• Sales experience in the retail and consumer goods industry highly preferred

Commercial Sales IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $107,600 - $187,500 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,600 - $205,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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