Senior Manager / Director - Microsoft Alliance – AI Business Solutions Sales
At a glance
Director-level Channel & Partnerships role at PwC. Zürich · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Build and qualify Swiss client opportunities for Microsoft-enabled AI business transformation, then turn them into sales
- Shape AI business solutions for priority sector plays with sector, platform and territory leaders
- Lead the AI Agents Enablement and Accelerator sales motion, taking clients from use-case ideas to ROI-backed plans
- Coordinate Microsoft co-selling, funding and executive involvement to advance priority pursuits
- Equip territory teams with reusable sales materials, then track pipeline, wins, adoption and related revenue
What you bring
- You have a strong record selling and developing enterprise services powered by Microsoft technology
- You have sold AI business solutions and understand Microsoft’s ecosystem and commercial models
- You have worked in professional services or consulting and can navigate complex, cross-functional stakeholder groups
- You have delivered against sales targets, with commercial judgment and senior-level relationship skills
Who this fits
This senior sales role suits someone who can create opportunities, influence senior Microsoft and PwC stakeholders, and work across a matrixed environment. The focus is on growing AI business solutions sales across Switzerland.
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Senior ManagerJob Description & Summary
PwC Microsoft Alliance Overview
PwC and Microsoft maintain a strategic global alliance focused on delivering AI driven innovation and transformation across Cloud & AI Platforms, Security, and AI Business Solutions. As a multi-award-winning Microsoft Partner, PwC is recognised for its ability to deliver end-to-end transformation across the full stack, leveraging Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Agentic AI technologies. Together, PwC and Microsoft help clients address complex challenges, modernise infrastructure, and deploy AI at scale.
Join us and be part of a diverse, inclusive culture where your ideas matter, your growth is supported, and your work makes a difference.
Your Impact:
We are seeking a commercially driven and strategically minded Microsoft Alliance AI Business Solutions Sales Director / Senior Manager to accelerate the growth of Microsoft-enabled AI Business Solutions across Switzerland. The role will focus on originating, qualifying and converting AI-enabled business transformation opportunities across PwC Platforms, Sector Growth Plays and Territory client relationships.
The role will position AI Business Solutions as the Microsoft-enabled AI capability layer within PwC’s offerings, helping clients move from AI interest and pilots to scalable, governed and measurable transformation across workforce, customer, finance, operations, service and automation domains.
As a senior member of the Switzerland Alliances & Sales team, the role will orchestrate Microsoft co-sell, funding, solution alignment and pursuit acceleration across the full AI Business Solutions offering stack, including AI Agents Enablement, AI Agents Accelerator, Agentic CRM, Agentic ERP, Intelligent Contact Center, HyperAutomation and AI Workforce Transformation with Copilots & Agents.
- Co-strategize AI Business Solutions components, aligned with Microsoft as our strategic alliance partner into priority Sector Growth Plays with Sector, Platform and Territory leaders.
- Drive commercial activation of the full AI Business Solutions stack: AI Agents Enablement, explore our AI Agents Accelerator, Agentic CRM, Agentic ERP, Intelligent Contact Center, HyperAutomation and AI Workforce Transformation with Copilots & Agents.
- Lead the AI Agents Enablement + AI Agents Accelerator flagship motion, helping clients move from AI awareness and use-case ideation to qualified, ROI-backed, Microsoft-aligned opportunities and roadmaps.
- Orchestrate Microsoft co-sell, funding and executive engagement across priority AI Business Solutions pursuits.
- Support Territory adoption of reusable AI Business Solutions sales kits, qualification approaches, proposition materials and pursuit assets.
- Track outcomes through qualified pipeline, Growth Play wins, Microsoft influence, Territory adoption, Agent Boss activation and managed service / AgentOps revenue.
Your Skill Set:
We are looking for a high-performing sales professional with a strong track record in sales and business development of enterprise services enabled by Microsoft technology. The ideal candidate will bring:
- Experience in selling AI Business solutions, with a deep understanding of Microsoft’s ecosystem and commercial frameworks.
- Experience of working in and understanding the professional services or consulting environments.
- Proven ability to navigate complex, matrixed environments and collaborate across multiple stakeholders.
- Strong commercial acumen and a results-oriented mindset, with a focus on delivering client value and revenue growth.
- Excellent relationship building and influencing skills, particularly with senior stakeholders across both Microsoft and PwC.
- A proactive, entrepreneurial approach with the ability to identify and shape new opportunities with Microsoft and PwC.
- Experience working in Industry.
- Proven success in achieving targets.
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Optional Skills
Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, AI Fluency, AI-Human Collaboration, Analytical Thinking, Analytics Strategy, Architecture Development, Business Architecture, Business Model Innovation, Business Transformation, Cloud Computing, Coaching and Feedback, Commercial Strategies, Communication, Creativity, Digital Customer Experience, Digital Strategies, Digital Tooling, E-Commerce, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Implementing Technology, Inclusion {+ 22 more}Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)
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