Job Category: Marketing Location: United States, WA, Bellevue Job ID: 712031 11935 Division: Microsoft Business Division
Are you ready to help drive Microsoft Dynamics leadership in the ERP market? Do you have excellent product marketing skills and an eye for positioning, messaging, and marketing ERP through the web and the rapidly evolving social networking environments? Could you clearly articulate our unique value proposition vs. our competition to a customer? If you possess these skills, and can communicate effectively with Dynamics ERP product groups and product management teams, you’re just who we’re looking for to join the Microsoft Dynamics ERP team as a product manager focused on the outbound execution of our cross-product marketing strategy.
As the key driver of Microsoft’s competitive ERP offerings in the marketplace, your primary responsibilities include driving effective marketing strategies for the Microsoft Dynamics ERP portfolio. If you’re a strategic thinker with a passion for the power of marketing and want to manage the process from idea to execution in the field, then this could be the ideal next role for you. In addition to defining our position and strategy, you’ll also work on increasing website traffic through the use of analytics, and leveraging Microsoft’s digital platform as a means to increase the exposure and visibility of ERP both in the company, as well as in the marketplace. As an ERP product manager, in addition to working with internal marketing teams focused on branding, advertising, products, and messaging, you will also work with subsidiaries around the world to land this material to result in increased visibility to the business. You’ll build a record of accomplishment that includes exceeding performance and readiness metrics, while carving out a distinct brand identify for Microsoft Dynamics ERP in the competitive marketplace through a variety of marketing programs.
Additionally, your work and focus will include our internal portals and readiness websites as well, as we increase the visibility of Dynamics ERP to other product groups, sales and marketing teams, partner organizations, and executives. You will accomplish this through significant collaboration and projects across teams and divisions, leveraging best practices to ensure our field-focused resources have the best tools and information available with which to be successful in the marketplace.
Microsoft Dynamics generates over $1B in revenue a year for the company. This role is one of the most visible positions in the Dynamics ERP product marketing team and is highly relied upon by the field and partner organizations to provide the necessary air cover and brand exposure that they can use to close deals in our key accounts. As a subject matter expert on our products, their positioning and messaging, and marketing strategies, you will also play an important role in providing feedback to the various marketing organizations to help drive marketing and campaigns. Additionally, you will actively support the worldwide marketing community to focus on various components of our ERP strategy in the broader marketplace.
To be successful in this exciting and demanding role you must possess excellent marketing skills and have a proven track record of articulating our strategies confidently to external audiences. Successful candidates possess great communication skills, exhibit outstanding collaboration skills in working and leading cross-functional teams inside and outside the organization, are sincerely customer focused, and deal well with ambiguity in their role.
As a basis for success, candidates for this position should have 8-10 years' of relevant experience in marketing and technology, and an in-depth knowledge of the complexities and sophistication of the Microsoft corporate and field organizations. The position will require approximately 15-20% travel, including to various subsidiaries and regions to support conferences and events, provide field training, and assist local sales teams where applicable.
This position is based in Bellevue.
