Do you enjoy managing on a high-performing, fast-paced sales team? Are you insatiably curious and do you lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from your mistakes? If so, we are looking for you!
At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&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&C is more than a sales organization—it’s a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. 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&C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business.
As a Senior Security Sales Manager , you will take the lead in harnessing the power of AI to achieve customer leadership. Your efforts will be instrumental in executing solution sales strategies by leveraging various programs and offers. Additionally, you will be responsible for selling cloud services and platforms tailored for our managed customers. Furthermore, you will play a significant role in enabling AI and Digital transformation momentum for our customers, partners, and Microsoft.
Are you inspired to help customers empower their employees, maximize the employee experience, and do great work using the devices and apps they love? We are looking for someone to help customers who are undergoing significant changes to the way they work as we continue to shift into a truly hybrid work model. Microsoft is at the forefront of this transformation come and help organizations rethink aspects of their business in a way that sets them and their people up for success in this new world of work.
In the Security Specialists team, we are looking for passionate, experienced, and credible specialist leaders who will follow the model | coach | care approach to developing and winning team sales strategy that will deliver on the Security Solution Area goals. As a Security Specialist Manager, you will lead transformational shifts to drive deployment and create business value for customers. You will provide direction/guidance on the development of solutions across solution areas and support areas. You will lead a team to develop strategies for driving and closing opportunities. You will facilitate the development of partner strategies and ensure execution. You will contribute to setting up the events and promoting best practice sharing across subsidiaries. You will oversee the end-to-end business across geographical regions. You will ensure the team meets sales targets and operational standards and maintains the health of metrics within the assigned territory. You will interact with Corporate leadership and senior-level stakeholders to get support for their team and the geographical regions. You will act as a thought leader to help their team connect Microsoft solutions to customer business impact. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, honing your solution sales and collaboration skills, and deepening your cloud expertise. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% 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.
Responsibilities
- People Leader
- You will build and grow highly successful teams through talent management, diversity and inclusion, coaching, and career development. You are a respected technology leader with the ability to attract, retain, and develop the most technical resources in the field. Inspire and foster a culture of customer-centricity and consumption, adoption and use through collaboration with peers and extended teams.
- Sales Execution
- You will lead teams to identify and track new opportunities, bring impactful industry insights into customer engagements, and lead a virtual cross-organizational team on strategic projects and high impact solution sales deployments that enable digital transformation and deliver business value.
- You will lead team to develop strategies through orchestration for driving and closing opportunities and guide team on communicating with customers to understand their business needs or facilitate customer interactions to assess needs.
- Business Value Selling
- Coach team to hunt new Security opportunities business value selling approach.
- Scaling and Collaboration
- You will coach team to learn and apply the orchestration model and guide team to build a network of partners to cross-sell and up-sell.
- Technical Expertise
- You will coach team on business and market knowledge and act as a thought leader to help team connect Microsoft solution to customer business impact.
- Showcase a learning mentality:
- Demonstrate a willingness to invest in your personal learning in the Cybersecurity arena with team members.
- Sales Excellence
- You will lay out customer satisfaction long-term strategies, guide team in whitespace analysis, and participate in regular strategic planning for assigned territory, review plans via ROB meetings, and align plans of team across departments.
- You will ensure team meet sales targets and operational standards and maintain the health of metrics within the assigned territory while mentoring/coaching team on growing knowledge on sales or products and ensuring team completes training and obtains certifications as required.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 8+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 11+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
- 5+ years of people management experience.
- Demonstrated experience selling complex, cloud-based solutions to small and medium enterprise customers and driving adoption across multiple stakeholders
- Solid understanding of security market and complete solutions
Additional or preferred qualifications
- Master's Degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 10+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 12+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience OR 15+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience.
- 10+ years of services sales or account management experience.
- 7+ years of people management experience.
Digital Solution Area Specialists M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $184,300 - CAD $288,100 per year.
Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 8th 2025
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