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Location: Milan, Italy Start date: September 2020 Duration: 6 Months, full time internship Internship@Microsoft is looking for committed people with initiative and drive. Our applicants should have a genuine passion for technology, analytical thinking, interest towards communication skills and team projects. Passion is the common ingredient among our colleagues, and if you’ve got it, then whatever your particular skills are, we’ll find the perfect home for them! Company profile Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. We're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them. We run our business in much the same way. Our employees come as they are and do what they love. Imagine the opportunities you’ll have in a company with more than 100,000 employees in more than 100 countries, working on hundreds of products—spanning games, phones, developer tools, business solutions and operating systems. We work hard, but we value work/life balance, and each of us defines what that means to us. So why not explore what we do, where we do it, and what life is really like at Microsoft. You just might be surprised. No matter what your passion is, you’ll find it here. You can work on a multi-billion-dollar global business or a revolutionary technology that hasn’t yet left the lab. Join us at Microsoft and start your journey. INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES IN SALES Our technology helps to empower customers through you. These positions give you the opportunity to have an impact on both internal and external customers. You are the kind of person who can’t help but inspire people with the power and potential of technology. You’re hardwired to share with them how a program or new piece of hardware can improve their lives or businesses. Here, you can use your gift to become a trusted client advisor, supporting our customers and keeping our company growing in more than 100 countries around the world. Our technology helps to empower customers through you. These positions give you the opportunity to have an impact on both internal and external customers. You are the kind of person who can’t help but inspire people with the power and potential of technology. You’re hardwired to share with them how a program or new piece of hardware can improve their lives or businesses. Here, you can use your gift to become a trusted client advisor, supporting our customers and keeping our company growing in more than 100 countries around the world. Responsibilities Typical roles within the Sales stream are Account Manager, Solution Sales Professional, Sales Excellence Analyst, Licensing Sales Professional, Business Development Manager. Account Manager As an Account manager, you are the main connection point between Microsoft and our customers, including small- to mid-size businesses, enterprises, governments, and academic intuitions. You provide strategic business leadership—partnering with leaders in customers’ organizations to align their business strategies with technologies and products that can help them increase their market share and revenue. On a daily basis, you’ll build and maintain key relationships, ensure alignment of customers’ IT and business priorities with our technical offerings, and lead and engage fellow employees—including sales, technical, consulting, support, product groups, and executives—to advance both customers’ and Microsoft’s long-term interests. You’ll have the chance to experience all aspects of the client relationship and opportunity management. Most of all, as an Account manager you will get hands-on experience driving significant impact and build a strong foundation for larger and broader responsibilities. Solution Sales Professional As a Solutions sales professional, you will identify our customers’ pain points 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—be it business, government, or academics. You will build and maintain relationships with executive business and technical decision makers, be able to articulate and present the business value of Microsoft’s solutions, and develop a firm understanding of Microsoft’s strategies and product offerings relative to our major competitors. This role is crucial in defining, developing, prioritizing, and ultimately selling our industry solutions at scale. You will become a subject matter expert (SME) in industry trends, competition and account-specific business drivers as you help educate and keep the Microsoft field sales force current in these areas. Sales Excellence Analyst The Sales excellence analyst supports the sales team by planning, analyzing, and executing initiatives for building business connections using web-based capabilities. You will work closely with key stakeholders that lead and manage marketing, sales, support, and services related to functions across the company. You will develop and maintain relationships with key sales team leaders, build change programs, and drive cross-group initiatives. This role requires excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills for driving executive conversations and agreement. The successful candidate will also have strong quantitative skills in math, statistics, finance and/or economics, and well-developed data manipulation and business analysis skills. Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Access, Word and PowerPoint) is essential. Business Development Manager Business development managers identify key strategic initiatives to develop and successfully execute Go to Market strategies against top competitors. As part of this role you will drive capacity planning to ensure partner readiness to increase sales and market share. We are looking for a great individual, who can think out of the box with ideas, execute on messaging, design presentations to support to customer and partner communications and support the Enterprise Partner Team. Qualifications Pursuing a full time Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Business, Sales or any other business related fields Education background in sales, management, communications or another business relater field First practical sales experiences, e.g. in selling software solutions or hardware, preferred Well developed communication, presentation as well as analytical and problem-solving skills Negotiation, customer service, and interpersonal skills Passion for technology Fluency in Italian & English language is required Available to start on September 2020, on a full time basis for 6 month. Full work authorization in Italy is required. Applications in English with CV in English required, please upload your CV in order your application to be considered. For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our University Recruitment Team [email removed] Find out more: www.aka.ms/URsway Microsoft Careers http://www.microsoft.com/university Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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