Area Sustainability Lead, Western Europe

Digital transformation and the journey to net-zero is impacting every industry around the world. From retail and manufacturing to energy and financial services, disruption is already here. Environmental concerns and sustainability initiatives are driving all organizations through an accelerated energy transition. Customers across all industries are asking Microsoft to help them reinvent their business, innovate, and digitally transform to today’s new realities.

At Microsoft, sustainability teams accelerate progress toward a more sustainable future by reducing our environmental footprint, accelerating ESG actions and create a global community, helping our customers practically solve their sustainability and business objectives through the deployment of technology solutions that enable measurable results, and advocating for policies that support this progress towards a just transition.

In Western Europe our customers and partners are embracing the sustainability challenges and opportunities ahead, this role as Western Europe Sustainability Lead is critical in helping navigate our teams to unlock even more value for our customers, partners, employees and the local communities across the 12 WE subsidiaries.

**Responsibilities**:
The role focus is to lead the change management strategy for Microsoft Western Europe encompassing culture, sales transformation and orchestration of the significant opportunity we have with our sustainability aspiration.

**Key**
**responsibilities**
**include**:

- Developing an integrated change plan for Western Europe which is closely connected to the work done in the individual countries and addresses culture, people change, landing plans to drive positive outcomes for Western Europe.
- Closely connected to the Western Europe Leadership Team, advising, guiding and coaching on change management strategy and execution.
- In close partnership with our Corporate Vice President for Sustainability engage and support marketing and sales teams to have conversations with customers across industries to introduce the Cloud for Sustainability and how its capabilities can enable digital transformation in areas that are aligned with the customer's industry and sustainability workflows and turns opportunities into deals.
- Initiates conversations with customers on digital transformation in sustainability data and related scenarios, in collaboration with partners and services. Creates guiding examples of sustainability digital transformation through seminars, workshops, webinars, and direct engagement.
- Identify local initiatives with growth potential and orchestrate the organisation to maximise these working in close partnership with our sustainability champs across the region, our EMEA and Corporate team.
- Specific accountability for our WE Sustainability plan, maximising the assets we have across the organisation and leading the strategy.
- Evangelise Microsoft’s transformation story to inspire our Customers, Partners, Employees and Managers through local events including Manager Forums and Leadership events.
- Sponsor growth accounts to drive business acceleration.
- Deliver a world-class seller experience through a single connected opportunity workflow across all steps involved, with visibility into deal progress.
- Drive the efficacy of sales plays and industry solutions through integrated learning and rhythms, and guided execution.
- Live our values and deliver great lived experiences for our people, each and every day. Connect with our Employee Resource Groups to drive consistency of message and help us with our journey towards everyone being an ally to All.

This role would report into the Western Europe SMO (Sales, Marketing and Operations) organization, allowing for an aligned approach across all segment teams.

Our team culture is centred on embracing a growth mindset, collaboration, inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

**Qualifications**:
**Qualifications**
- Required/Minimum Qualifications
- 7+ years of technology-related sales, consulting or account management experience
- Experience in area related to ESG, energy transition, sustainable energy, climate change or circular economy in the public sector or in the corporate world

**Additional or Preferred Qualifications**
- ESG, Energy Transition, Climate Change or Circular economy certifications

**Location**: As this role covers Western Europe, it is available from different locations.

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