Manager - Critical Infrastructure, Healthcare & Education — Microsoft
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Yesterday
Role overview
The Manager, Critical Infrastructure,
Healthcare & Education leads one of Microsoft's most strategic industry portfolios in Switzerland, with primary responsibility for Critical Infrastructure and
- The Manager, Critical Infrastructure,
- Healthcare & Education leads one of Microsoft's most strategic industry portfolios in Switzerland, with primary responsibility for Critical Infrastructure and
- Deliver business growth through leading and empowering account teams.
- You will lead execution of Go to Market (GTM) to deliver customers’ business outcomes across their entire lifecycle.
- Required
- Bachelor's Degree AND extensive experience within regulated industries in Switzerland, particularly Critical Infrastructure, Healthcare, and Education
Main responsibilities
- Deliver business growth through leading and empowering account teams.
- You will lead execution of Go to Market (GTM) to deliver customers’ business outcomes across their entire lifecycle.
- Accelerate customer satisfaction and model executive engagements with business decision makers and C-level executives.
- Win against competition by establishing Microsoft as market leaders, maximizing Customer spend, achieving targets (billed revenue, consumption, and adoption).
Key requirements
- Required
- Bachelor's Degree AND extensive experience within regulated industries in Switzerland, particularly Critical Infrastructure, Healthcare, and Education
- OR equivalent experience.
Application process
- industry and market expertise, leading a team to identify solutions to drive new opportunities in alignment with customers’ needs and develop industry-specific capabilities and expertise in relevant local trade, regulatory, and policy environments (e.g., opening doors and removing barriers for sales teams, partners, and customers) across geographic areas.
- This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
- 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Company and context
- Healthcare customers, including some of the country's most important organizations.
- The role is accountable for business performance, customer success, executive engagement, and people leadership across the segment.The successful candidate brings deep expertise in regulated industries and a significant understanding of the business, operational, regulatory, and technology challenges faced by critical national infrastructure providers and healthcare institutions.
- They build trusted relationships with C-level executives, act as a strategic advisor to customers, and help accelerate digital, security, data, and AI transformation.As a people leader, the role develops a high-performing and inclusive team, builds leadership capability, and drives accountability for results.
- Success requires a customer-centric mindset, the ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments, and the capability to lead across Microsoft's matrix organization to deliver outstanding customer experiences and sustainable business growth.The role combines strategic account leadership, industry expertise, people management, and commercial accountability to strengthen Microsoft's position as the trusted transformation partner for Switzerland's most critical and regulated organizations.
- 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.
- Lead partnership across the organization to achieve business value for customers and business results for Microsoft.
- Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring of your team.
- Develop, empower and transform your team to meet industry and customer needs by hiring, retaining, and developing talent
Additional details
- Apply industry and market expertise, leading a team to identify solutions to drive new opportunities in alignment with customers’ needs and develop industry-specific capabilities and expertise in relevant local trade, regulatory, and policy environments (e.g., opening doors and removing barriers for sales teams, partners, and customers) across geographic areas.
- As this role involves close collaboration with local customers, fluency in German is required. Sales Management M6
Notes and original content
- Responsibilities
- Qualifications
- As this role involves close collaboration with local customers, fluency in German is required.
- Fluency in French
- Sales Management M6
Questions about this listing
What salary does Microsoft offer for this role?
Microsoft lists CHF 117'000 - 180'000 gross per year for this position in Zürich. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Microsoft offer?
This listing is a full-time position. The contract type shown here comes directly from the employer's original posting; always confirm exact hours, notice period and probation length with Microsoft during the application process, since these details can vary by role even within the same contract category.
Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Zürich?
EU/EFTA residents living in the border zone of the country adjoining Canton Zürich can apply for a G permit; the Swiss employer files it with that canton's migration office after the contract is signed. Border-zone rules and processing times vary by neighbouring country and canton, so confirm the specifics with Zürich's cantonal migration office or with HR during the application.
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