Start date 01.12.2024

Duration: 9 months, full-time or part-time

Type of Employment: Internship

Every year, we welcome thousands of university students from every corner of the world to join Microsoft. You bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of university graduates from every corner of the world.

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. Learn more about our cultural attributes (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

We’re a company of learn-it-alls rather than know-it-alls and our culture is centered around embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Does this sound like you?

At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology. The internship is designed not only for you to do great work with the opportunity to learn and grow, but to experience our culture full of diverse community connections, executive engagement, and memorable events.

Are you ready to join us and create the future? Come as you are, do what you love—start your journey with us today!

Responsibilities

Solution Area Specialist

As a Solution Area Specialist, you identify our customers’ challenges and solve them through the latest software and services solutions. You will be our customers’ trusted consultant, thoroughly evaluating the health of their IT platforms and development environments and diagnosing areas for improvement. Your solutions drive measurable value, helping customers run their businesses more cost-effectively and efficiently and giving them a competitive edge in their marketplace.

Responsibilities:

• Positions Microsoft solutions in competitive landscape through research and collaboration utilizing industry expertise to differentiate Microsoft solutions.

• Identifies market and customer needs and collaborates with internal teams to devise solutions to meet those needs.

• Develops and manages pipeline for territory and forecasts resource needs.

• Meets with customers on site to deepen relationships and solution development.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's OR Masters degree in Business Administration/Management, Marketing, Information Technology, Computer Science or related field.

• Strong desire and business acumen for consultative solution selling

• Exceptional negotiation, customer service, and interpersonal skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills

• Passion for technology and customer obsessed.

• Fluency in English as well as at least one Scandinavian language required.

• You must be legally authorised to work in Norway to be eligible for this role. (Legally authorised = has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit).

Visit our Careers FAQ Page (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/faq) to learn more about the interview process and answers to commonly asked questions.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .