Microsoft Looking For Account Services Delivery Management – Healthcare at Chicago, IL Full Time

Develops, nurtures, and maintains professional relationships with key stakeholders within customer organizations. Builds a good rapport between Microsoft and customer organizations to ensure service delivery expectations are met. Identifies opportunities for growth and effectively communicates strategy to the sales team. Partners and coordinates with internal and customer stakeholders to resolve critical issues. Builds and maintains customer executive relationships by communicating Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) delivery. Leverages knowledge of customer organization business priorities and strategies to effectively implement and support delivery services.

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Responsibilities

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.

Customer Relationships

Creates a strategic relationship with key stakeholders at as appropriate, within the account portfolio, often as part of a steering committee, to ensure service delivery is on track and major issues are being anticipated, identified, and managed. Brings in new customer opportunities in partnership with Sales with highly significant or global impacts for Microsoft.

Synthesizes and combines broad insights from teams across the practice as a whole regarding the business and information technology (IT) objectives, priorities, and strategies of customers across their managed portfolio, as well as in others’ portfolios, in order to identify wide-spread patterns and develop strategies for the business and work cross-functionally to drive change. Leverages proficiency to coach others to do the same. Communicates current view of delivery to customer executives on regular cadence.

Ensures that their team is guiding customers through relevant change initiatives.

Internal Relationships and Coordination

Ensures that customer opportunities, questions, and/or issues are brought to the appropriate internal teams (e.g., Sales, Architects). Encourages others to develop and/or expand awareness of internal mechanisms in order to best address customer needs. Establishes accountabilities to drive customer outcomes and ensures internal stakeholders are in place through Account Delivery Executives (ADEs).

Portfolio Management

Oversees a broad portfolio of accounts managed and supported by Account Delivery Executives (ADEs) across a large territory or complex accounts (e.g., $10-20 million, across 12+ people, multi-country, multi-cloud, tier 1, strategic accounts). Manages and ensures the all-up delivery of consulting engagements. Drives an impact beyond their own portfolio and practice.

Business Growth

Innovates and implements long-term, strategic plans, in partnership with Sales and other Services personnel, to create new opportunities and sustainable growth for customer accounts across the worldwide account portfolio.

Negotiates, collaborates on, reviews, and contributes to deal approval. Challenges deal construct to ensure Microsoft initiatives are incorporated appropriately.

Supports sales growth and quota attainment. Ensures account team alignment and holds team accountable for delivering on strategy.

Delivery

Influences the direction of solution offerings, guides the direction of solution deliveries through others, influences others to secure resources for deliveries, and holds teams accountable for maintaining obligations to customer contracts and ensuring delivery services across the services lifecycle. Attends steering committee meetings with strategic customers to remove blockers and ensure delivery success.

Consumption

Develops new services initiatives within territory to drive consumption through Account Delivery Executives (ADEs) and Technical Account Managers (TAMs). Contributes to the strategy for Account Team Unit (ATU), Customer Success (CSU), and Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) account teams for accelerating consumption within portfolio. Oversees overall ISD influenced consumption and identifies broad patterns of consumption gaps.

Escalations

Resolves issues identified and escalated from direct reports (e.g., Account Delivery Executives [ADEs], Technical Account Managers [TAMs]) regarding internal or critical customer issues (e.g., personnel change requests, threat of critical deal loss) with significant financial impacts on the business. Proactively manages internal executive engagement through strategic internal relationships. Establishes escalation standards for practice and implements escalation management governance processes.

Business Management

Governs areas of fiscal responsibility, through team, staying within budget while driving engagement profitability and risk management.

Other

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Management, or related field AND 10+ years service delivery and client-facing experience

OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Management, or related field AND 8+ years project management, service delivery and client-facing experience

OR equivalent experience.

3+ years people management experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Management, or related field AND 15+ years project management, service delivery and client-facing experience

OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Management, or related field AND 12+ years project management, service delivery and client-facing experience

OR equivalent experience.

8+ years account management experience.

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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