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Microsoft UK • London, United Kingdom

Account Technology Strategist - Insurance and Investments

Employment type:  Full time

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top 3 scores:
83%

Location flexibility

81%

Hours flexibility

79%

Autonomy

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Job Description

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be, and take their careers to places they simply couldn't reach anywhere else. This is a world of more possibility, more innovation, more openness, and more sky’s-the-limit thinking — a cloud-enabled world.

Businesses expect technology to be the main enabler of innovation - to deliver on their business priorities and goals. At Microsoft, we are committed to helping Financial Services clients by working side-by-side with them to co-innovate and co-develop next-generation solutions that address their most pressing business opportunities. The Account Technology Strategist (ATS) in our FSI team, plays a key role in inspiring and ideating with customers the possibilities technology provides to them, drives thought leadership in digital transformation and builds strategic partnerships with C- level technology and innovation executives.

The ATS is the leader responsible for designing the strategy and technology solution roadmap to drive the digital transformation and innovation agenda of our enterprise customers and acts as an innovation and thought leader. With deep industry knowledge, broad technology skills and unparalleled business acumen the ATS connects industry/business priorities to technology strategy and develops value propositions which align with our customer’s business strategies, leveraging the rich portfolio of Microsoft and its partner ecosystem.

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centred on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

Responsibilities

Digital Transformation & Innovation Strategy: Understand customer's industry and business goals, Microsoft solution areas and partner solutions to build a roadmap to enable customer’s digital transformation and innovation agenda. Expand Microsoft relationships with customers into strategic partnerships.

Technology Thought Leadership: Reimagine the role of technology as a business and innovation partner to deliver the business goals of our customers, help them understand the impact of emerging and strategic technologies and inspire & influence them for Microsoft technologies to become the enabling solution to drive their business innovation.

Industry & Business Solutions: Create a joint strategy with the customer to link business, technology, and industry needs to deliver their business and transformation strategy.

Technology Sales Leadership: Lead technology sales activities to drive the digital transformation vision and roadmap of our customers with Microsoft technologies. Plan and orchestrate the solution proposal and coordinate technology sales teams to provide the right solution to the customer.

Account Leadership and Relationship Management: A change agent internally and externally to inspire and ideate about possibilities new technologies provide to drive business and technical strategy and priorities of our customers. Own and strengthen the relationships with C-level technology and innovation Executives in business units, and support through the lifecycle of change to ensure maximum value delivered to our customers.

Qualifications

  • Strong technical leadership; consulting, technical consultative selling, business consulting, practice building, or related technical/sales experience relating to Cloud products.
  • Experience building and sustaining relationships with c-suite executives
  • Experience in digital transformation or using technology to drive customer business outcomes. Ideally across Financial Services
  • Experience driving digital transformation with a solution driven approach

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Company benefits

Wellbeing allowance
Health insurance
Dental coverage
Gym membership
Mental health platform access
Buy or sell annual leave
Shared parental leave
Charity donation scheme
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts
Volunteer days
Fertility treatment leave
Open to compressed hours
Open to job sharing
Fertility benefits
Enhanced sick pay
Enhanced sick days
Compassionate leave
Travel insurance
20 days annual leave + bank holidays
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Adoption leave
Childcare credits
Carer’s leave
Cycle to work scheme
Faith rooms
Annual bonus
Annual pay rises
Company car
Hackathons
Open to part-time employees
Pregnancy loss leave
Life insurance
Equity packages
Financial coaching
Relocation packages
Sabbaticals
Enhanced pension match/contribution

We asked employees of Microsoft UK what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
83%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
81%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
67%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
63%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
74%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
79%
Employees feel that they can mostly manage how they get their own work done

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