Start date: 01.12.2024

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

Type of Employment: Internship

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Responsibilities

Technical Specialist

Technology Specialists (TSs) drive the technical motions within sales driving specific solution area revenue and market share. Based on the tremendous opportunity of digital transformation across every individual and organization, we focus our broad portfolio of assets and go-to-market efforts across four key solution areas: Modern Workplace, Business Applications, Apps & Infrastructure, and Data & AI. 

Responsibilities:

• Engages with and guides customers toward technical decisions to purchase and use Microsoft technology.

• Leverages sales strategy to address customer digital transformation and align technology to customer business needs.

• Understands customer needs, collects customer feedback, and provides strategic input to customers.

• Demonstrates Microsoft solutions to prove capabilities, applies architectures to client scenarios, and engages in partner sell-with scenarios to scale through partners.

• Acts as an orchestration point for technical resources and works to resolve blockers in order to achieve solution implementations.

Qualifications

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

• Passion for technology and working with customers.

• Strong balance of both business and technical skills.

• Exceptional negotiation, customer service, and interpersonal skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills.

• Technical consulting, technical consultative selling, product development, or related technical/sales experience is a plus.

• 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).

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