Microsoft

Spécialiste, Sécurité / Security Specialist

Microsoft$142K — $214K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Business Administration, Cybersecurity, or a related field with 6+ years in tech sales or account management.
  • Bilingual in English and French, both spoken and written, for effective global collaboration.
  • 6+ years of experience in selling cybersecurity solutions with a focus on threat protection, multi-cloud security, and compliance.
  • Master's degree or significant equivalent experience preferred for advanced roles and higher accountability.
  • Demonstrated ability to exceed sales targets and manage strategic customer accounts effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Execute sales strategies to drive secure digital transformation across customer workloads.
  • Collaborate internally and externally to strategize and close end-to-end security opportunities.
  • Lead technical discussions around security solutions and evaluate competitive offerings.
  • Ensure operational excellence in sales processes, including accurate CRM management and forecasting.
  • Drive new customer acquisition through innovative sales techniques and effective networking.
  • Manage a healthy pipeline and strategic account planning in the assigned territory.
  • Deliver persuasive presentations to engage business decision-makers effectively.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangement with up to 50% remote work.
  • Access to professional development and training opportunities.
  • Work within a collaborative global team environment.
  • Engagement in meaningful work that contributes to the fight against cybercrime.
  • Opportunity to refine solution sales and collaboration skills while advancing cybersecurity expertise.
Full Job Description
Overview

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Dans l'équipe des spécialistes de la sécurité, nous recherchons des vendeurs spécialistes passionnés, expérimentés et crédibles ayant le souci de développer et de gagner des opportunités stratégiques qui apportent un leadership éclairé en matière de sécurité de bout en bout, offrant une valeur client significative et permettant des résultats transformationnels pour les clients. Le vendeur spécialiste travaille en étroite collaboration avec les clients pour identifier leurs besoins en matière de cybersécurité et recommander les meilleures solutions de la suite de produits et services de Microsoft. En tant que spécialiste de la sécurité, vous élaborerez des stratégies de transformation numérique sécurisée avec les clients, en collaborant avec différents groupes au sein de l'environnement du client pour les rendre plus sécurisés. Vous mènerez des conversations consultatives avec les clients et collaborerez à la planification, l'orchestration et l'exécution d'opportunités de sécurité de bout en bout avec des parties prenantes internes et des partenaires pour vendre en croisé et en montée. Cette opportunité vous permettra d'apprendre et d'accélérer votre croissance professionnelle, d'affiner vos compétences en matière de vente de solutions et de collaboration, et de renforcer votre expertise en matière de sécurité de bout en bout.

En tant que spécialiste de la sécurité, vous serez en partenariat avec des clients du secteur commercial dans leur parcours de sécurité. Ce rôle sera basé á Montréal et se concentrera sur nos clients de la région de l'Est du Canada. Cette opportunité vous permettra d'accélérer votre croissance professionnelle dans les ventes, d'évoluer vos compétences en matière de vente en travaillant avec nos principaux clients de ce segment.

Nous recherchons un/une professionnel(elle) de la vente de sécurité passionné, expérimenté et crédible ayant de l'expérience dans la vente de solutions de cybersécurité couvrant la protection contre les menaces, le multi-cloud sécurisé et la conformité pour rejoindre notre équipe mondiale de spécialistes de la sécurité. Ce rôle est flexible dans la mesure où vous pouvez travailler jusqu'à 50 % depuis votre domicile.

Responsabilités

Exécution des ventes : Introduit comment permettre une transformation numérique sécurisée à travers les charges de travail et collabore avec une équipe virtuelle pour évaluer les besoins des clients et construire de manière proactive une cartographie des parties prenantes externes pour mettre en œuvre des stratégies afin d'accélérer la conclusion de contrats, de stimuler la consommation et les transactions de licences pour développer les affaires avec les clients actuels et nouveaux.

Collaboration et orchestration : Collabore à la planification, l'orchestration et l'exécution d'opportunités de sécurité de bout en bout avec des parties prenantes internes et des partenaires pour vendre en croisé et en montée.

Expertise technique : Mène des conversations de sécurité de bout en bout, partage les meilleures pratiques et les connaissances des principaux concurrents dans les domaines de la solution, et évalue les opportunités pour faire des recommandations sur la poursuite ou l'abandon.

Fait preuve d'une excellence opérationnelle exceptionnelle - y compris les prévisions mensuelles/trimestrielles, la constitution de pipelines sains, l'entrée et l'hygiène CRM, la gestion des opportunités et l'orchestration d'équipes virtuelles.

Expérience dans la génération de nouvelles ventes et de nouveaux clients en utilisant des approches innovantes, en tirant parti d'événements de partenariat conjoints, de la vente sociale (LinkedIn) et du réseautage.

Expérience des clients du secteur commercial avec les technologies de cloud, de sécurité (gestion des identités et des accès, protection contre les menaces, protection des données, sécurité du cloud), et les normes de l'industrie recommandées.

Excellence des ventes : Dirige et planifie des comptes stratégiques dans le territoire assigné, fait des analyses commerciales pour poursuivre les clients à fort potentiel et gère l'ensemble des affaires de sécurité dans le territoire assigné. Complète les formations requises et obtient les certifications de produits et de rôles pertinentes alignées sur le rôle et la charge de travail/industrie.

Ventes et technologie

Dépasser les objectifs de vente dans un territoire de vente assigné

Expérience démontrée de la gestion des ventes et des partenaires

Compétition pour gagner de nouvelles parts de marché

Expérience significative dans la réalisation de présentations persuasives aux décideurs d'affaires

Qualifications

Qualifications requises minimales
  • Baccalauréat en informatique, technologies de l'information, administration des affaires, cybersécurité ou dans un domaine connexe ET 6 ans et plus d'expérience en vente de solutions technologiques ou en gestion de comptes OU expérience équivalente.
  • Chez Microsoft, vous travaillerez de manière intégrée avec des collègues à travers le monde. Afin de faciliter cette collaboration, la maîtrise de la communication orale et écrite en anglais et en français est requise pour ce rôle.

Qualifications additionnelles ou privilégiées
  • Maîtrise en administration des affaires (MBA), en technologies de l'information, en cybersécurité ou dans un domaine connexe ET 8 ans et plus d'expérience en vente de solutions technologiques ou en gestion de comptes OU baccalauréat en informatique, technologies de l'information, administration des affaires, cybersécurité ou dans un domaine connexe ET 12 ans et plus d'expérience en vente de solutions technologiques ou en gestion de comptes OU expérience équivalente.
  • 6 ans et plus d'expérience en vente de solutions ou de services.


Job Overview

Security has never been more top of mind for organizations and their customers, and Microsoft Security Solution is committed to keeping organization, employees and customers secure in an increasingly complex cyber landscape. As the largest security company in the world, we are ideally placed to think outside the box to help our customers make the world a safer place. We are excited to expand our team with ambitious, diversified, and driven new talent, eager to make a difference in the fight against cybercrime. We are keen to hear your thoughts on how we can further achieve our purpose together. Join our team and discover unique opportunities to grow, develop and learn.

In the Security Specialists team, we are looking for passionate, experienced, and credible specialist sellers with a drive for developing and winning strategic opportunities that deliver end-to-end security thought leadership, driving significant customer value, and enabling transformational customer outcomes. The Specialist seller works closely with customers to identify their cybersecurity needs and recommend the best solutions from Microsoft's suite of products and services. As a Security Specialist you will build secure digital transformation strategies with customers, collaborating with different groups inside the Customer environment to successfully enable them to be more secure. You will lead consultative customer conversations and collaborate on the planning, orchestration, and execution of end-to-end Security opportunities with internal stakeholders and partners to cross-sell and up-sell. This opportunity will allow you to learn and accelerate your career growth, hone your solution sales and collaboration skills, and deepen your end-to-end security expertise.

As a Security Specialist you will be partnering with Enterprise Commercial customers on their security journey. This role will be in Montreal and focused on working with customers based out of the Eastern region of Canada. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your sales career growth, evolve your selling skills by working with our top customers in this segment.

We are looking for a passionate, experienced, and credible security sales professional who has experience selling cybersecurity solutions across threat protection, secure multi-cloud, and compliance to join our global team of Security Specialists. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

Responsibilities

  • Sales Execution: Introduces how to enable secure digital transformation across workloads and collaborates with a virtual team to assess customer needs and proactively build an external stakeholder mapping to implement strategies to accelerate the closing of deals, drive consumption and licensing transactions to grow business with current and new Customers.


  • Scaling and Collaboration: Collaborates on the planning, orchestration, and execution on end-to-end Security opportunities with internal stakeholders and partners to cross-sell and up-sell.


  • Technical Expertise: Leads end-to-end Security conversations, shares best practices and key competitor knowledge across solution areas, and evaluates opportunities to make recommendations on pursuit or withdrawal.


  • Exhibits outstanding operational excellence - including monthly/quarterly forecasting, building healthy pipeline, CRM entry and hygiene, opportunity management and virtual team orchestration.


  • Experience driving new sales and new customers using innovative approaches, leveraging joint partnership events, social selling (LinkedIn) and networking.


  • Enterprise Commercial customer experience with cloud, security technologies (Identity and Access Management, Threat protection, Data protection, Cloud Security), and industry standards recommended


  • Sales Excellence: Leads and plans for strategic accounts in the assigned territory, does business analysis to pursue high-potential customers and manages the End-to-End Security business across the assigned territory. Completes required training and obtains relevant product and role certifications aligned to the role and workload/industry.


  • Sales and Technology


  • Exceed sales goals in an assigned sales territory


  • Demonstrated sales and partner management experience


  • Competes to win new market share


  • Significant experience delivering persuasive presentations to business decision makers


Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 6+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR equivalent experience.
  • At Microsoft, you will be working in an integrated fashion with colleagues around the world. To facilitate this collaboration, proficiency in verbal and written communication in both English and French is required for this role.


Additional or preferred qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technology, Information Security, or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Information Security, or related field AND 12+ years experience in technology-related sales or account management OR equivalent experience.


  • 6+ years solution or services sales experience.


Solution Area Specialists IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $142,800 - CAD $214,900 per year.

Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Solution Area Specialists IC5 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 142,800 $ CAD à 214,900 $ CAD par année.

Pour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu'à ce que le poste soit pourvu.

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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