Strategic Account Technology Strategist

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.An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Strategic Account Technology Strategist (ATS) working with Vodafone one of the world’s leading Telcos.Vodafone and Microsoft recently announced a far-reaching 10-year strategic partnership that leverages their respective strengths in offering scaled digital platforms to more than 300 million businesses, public sector organisations, and consumers across Europe and Africa. Through the partnership, the companies will collaborate to transform Vodafone’s customer experience using Microsoft’s generative AI, hyperscale Vodafone’s leading managed IoT connectivity platform, develop new digital and financial services for businesses, particularly SMEs across Europe and Africa, and overhaul its global data centre cloud strategy.This role will be joining the growing Vodafone account team that are leading the joint partnership engagement. As an Account Technology Strategist (ATS), you will be responsible for setting the technical vision and roadmap that will put technology at the centre of the partnership. You will need to use your technical acumen, industry knowledge and commercial understanding to enable Vodafone to do business in new disruptive ways through the adoption of Microsoft Cloud solutions; with an additional focus on adopting and capitalising on the opportunity AI presents.Internally, you will drive a culture for winning as a team; being customer obsessed first, operating as #onemicrosoft across the multi-functional team to deliver market leading solutions. You will also be expected to find synergies in how we work by sharing learning across both Microsoft and Vodafone. We Would Love To Hear From You If You Have a passion for driving business transformation through technology with a focus on AICan translate technology into a benefit-led business conversationHave a real passion and belief in how GenAI can have a positive impact on organisationsCan think creatively on how technology trends can translate into superpowers for orgsCan see the ‘big picture,’ and can comfortably engage the C-Suite – beyond just IT- on their business goals, and interpret these into capabilities and outcomes with technology peersCan articulate complex problems and solutions in a clear and logical mannerHave experience of working with a globally distributed customer and colleague base, with an engagement style that seeks to understand and embrace geographical and cultural differencesEmbrace diversity and inclusivity in all that you do, and create environments for others to be successfulAdvocate growth mindset, turning challenges into opportunities