Sales Director – Banking & Capital Markets NEW

Microsoft Corporation

London, United Kingdom

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Date posted

Jul 28, 2025

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Up to 50% work from home

Travel

25-50 %

Role type

People Manager

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Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

“Enabling financial institutions through technology transformation to have great impact on society and drive long-term prosperity to the UK”.

Microsoft’s Enterprise Account Team focuses on partnering with customers to achieve strategic goals that link back to the above Purpose Statement. This team is responsible for providing differentiated customer experience for our customers, delivering solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and driving revenue growth for Microsoft.

As a Sales Director, you will drive AI transformation propelling both Microsoft and our clients towards achieving the desired business outcomes. You will lead a team of sellers and technology strategists to execute the Go to Market strategy for the Banking & Capital Markets Industry.

You will do this by leveraging your large, multi-functional team across the breadth of the Microsoft product portfolio, engage at the most senior levels of your customer and deliver industry-relevant solutions to help the customer adopt and embrace business transformation.

With a proven history of driving growth in market share, achieving sales targets, customer obsession, and partner collaboration, this role will leverage your extensive customer network and sales experience to execute against an account plan within this industry. This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home but there is an expectation to be out with your Team and Clients’.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Several years of experience leading teams and/or managers in a Sales organization
• Several years of direct/formal, indirect/informal, and/or project team people management experience
• Several years of working in the Financial Services industry.

Responsibilities

Accelerating Growth

• Leverages industry and market expertise, proactively leading teams to identify solutions to drive new opportunities and strategies in alignment with customer needs. Establishes a technology-driven professional presence in the market and represents Microsoft as a thought leader who can articulate connections between Microsoft solutions to relevant business contexts with industry and market leaders.
• Defines expectations and sets strategies for teams to leverage drivers of Digital & Artificial Intelligence (AI) transformation relevant to their customers and partners across business units. Acts as a thought leader in optimally leveraging transformation across solution areas.
• Leads and coaches teams on the development and implementation of scalable go-to-market for maximizing revenue, consumption, and growth across solution areas. Shares best practices and holds managers and teams accountable for leveraging market-specific insights and highlighting solutions that solve business and technology challenges.

Driving Success with and Through Others

• Fosters and defines a culture of inclusion, learning, mentorship, coaching, customer-centricity, accountability, collaboration, and achievement of bold goals. Influences and inspires managers and teams across the organization to motivate, engage, and bring teams together. Leads a diverse and inclusive workforce, creates and hires diverse teams, and fosters an inclusive working environment via well-established inclusive behaviours.
• Builds and maintains a broad executive network inclusive of partners. Cultivates an ecosystem of customer and external partners and defines where there is a need for partners to act in Microsoft’s market to accelerate consumption and/or growth.
• Leads business planning and alignment beyond fiscal year boundaries across segments, partners, and teams to drive growth and transformation, define expectations for sale execution, and holds teams accountable for results. Defines where orchestration is needed for success, creates new points of entry for integration and collaboration, sets the tone for an organizational culture of inclusion.

Leading and Transforming the Business

• Defines ongoing and long-term customer value realization and satisfaction strategies contributing to net-new revenue and business growth. Holds teams accountable for customer value realization satisfaction, and coaches them on best practices and semi-annual survey results. Ensures internal and external executives are aligned on key areas of improvement to further impact increasing customer value realization and satisfaction.
• Leads the and aligns business within the segment, driving strategic direction across teams to enable revenue growth by proactively addressing business and competitive needs. Drives orchestration amongst internal teams and holds others accountable. Leads and influences across segments, partners, and internal leaders to drive growth and transformation across accounts. Aligns and gains buy-in from leaders and functions across the organization to ensure success of mutual plans and objectives.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Industry leading healthcare

Educational resources

Discounts on products and services

Savings and investments

Maternity and paternity leave

Generous time away

Giving programs

Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 .