Responsibilities

• Learns customer engagement role and develops foundational relationships with key customer stakeholders (e.g., Information Technology Directors, Chief Technical Office [CTO], Chief Innovation Officer [CIO], Line-of-Business leaders) and technical professionals to enable quality solution delivery and health using partnerships with other account team leaders (e.g., Account Executive, Account Technology Strategist) and with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Engages in conversations with customers that present the strategic alignment between the customer objectives and support contract to set a long-term strategy for consumption aligned to those priorities.
• Captures, communicates, and brings forward recommendations from customer insights to sellers in identifying and producing support revenue opportunities (e.g., add-ons, renewals).
• Connects identified opportunities, questions, and/or issues from customer organizations. Works with the appropriate internal Microsoft technical/sales teams or partners to address, using foundational technical knowledge to identify the right internal teams. Begins to take ownership for team coordination. Identifies and mitigates blockers to customer success goals.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field with at least one semester/quarter remaining after internship.
• Fluency in one of the Scandinavian languages
• 60% working onsite in the office
• You must be legally authorized to work in Norway to be eligible for this role (legally authorized = has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit).

• Passion for technology and customer obsessed.
• Displays strong stakeholder and relationship management across senior leaders, partners, and customers.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills.
• Technical Certification in Cloud technology (e.g., Azure) are preferred but not required.

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