About the Position:
As a Business Development leader at Logicalis, you will contribute to the overall performance of our Australian Microsoft business, measured by revenue growth, net new customers, and reference wins. You will have a broad role – part sales, part market maker, part cloud solution specialist, and part Microsoft alliance and partnership management – and will build a strategy focused on winning new customer segments and growing existing customer segments for the long term.
In this role, you will build and execute sales plays, content and tools to build pipeline, and to identify, drive and close Cloud Infrastructure, Security, AI, Data and Applications opportunities, helping win lighthouse customers in key industries and supporting the sales and solutions teams on the rapid close of strategic deals with global and regional solutions teams.
What you will be responsible for
As a Business Development Manager - you will be expected to:
- Drive business development strategy and activities primarily for the Australian market along with assisting regional teams for opportunities across other Asian markets
- Identify and frame net new business growth opportunities, working in close collaboration with sales, solutions and marketing teams
- Understand customers' overall cloud and digital transformation portfolio, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions aligned to Logicalis’s Solutions and services
- Be the Trusted Cloud Advisor and deliver success against sales quota attainment, by cultivating long-term relationships focused on understanding customers' needs and wants; earn trust and gain credibility by utilizing deep technical expertise to design and deliver valued solution architecture(s)
- Be the voice of Microsoft - our cloud partner back into Logicalis to help us shape our strategy and partnerships for long term mutual benefit ensuring senior leaders are aware of our progress and where we must do better
- Develop, share and enable Logicalis’ sellers across customer, market and industry trends and insights including competitive and market dynamics, product and technology trends
- Establish network of relationships with other key ecosystem partners for joint demand generation and amplification of Logicalis cloud solutions and services
- Plan and drive the sales, consumption and sell-through of Logicalis’ cloud solutions and services portfolio
- Understand and identify customer’s needs through in-depth account planning with sales teams and profiling to win bids and strike innovative deals with pre-sales teams.
In this role you will spend:
- 40% time with customers as well as Logicalis’ sellers and pre-sales teams in identifying and developing new cloud opportunities which align to the customer’s technical and business strategy. Working closely with Microsoft as well as engaging with Solutions & Marketing teams on prioritized customers. This includes proposal write up, sizing and presentation to all level in customer organization
- 40% time with Microsoft teams to co-design and co-execute programs and motions to facilitate business development and growth across cloud, security and modern workplace technologies and to capitalize and utilize partner incentives, rebates and other benefits and entitlements
- 20% time working and collaborating with Logicalis Regional and Global teams on go-to-market strategies by providing feedback on current and future market and customer requirements.
What you will bring:
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in consultative selling and business development of cloud solutions and services in BFSI industry
- Working in customer and partner facing roles in the Microsoft ecosystem, with experience in managing partner programs, tools and incentives
- A solid track record of overachieving cloud sales quotas and targets along with building rapport with senior C-level stakeholders and identifying, leading and executing new business development initiatives with customer centric approach on a worldwide scope.
- Proven ability to deliver results in a matrix organization (leveraging multiple functions and teams)
- Understanding of large-scale cloud initiatives and/or infrastructure projects.
- Understanding of Microsoft Partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage their programs and solutions to solve customer needs
- Fluency with Microsoft Licensing constructs, including EA & CSP
- Experience working at Microsoft or a systems integrator partner
- Good fundamental knowledge on AWS, Google Cloud platform, PaaS/ IaaS/ SaaS products and solutions.
- Experience working with cloud computing technologies/companies
- Broad knowledge of enterprise cloud platforms and ability to map relevant technologies to customer IT and business needs and priorities.
- Ability to build long-term trusted technology advisor relationships that result in solid, meaningful strategic technology conversations and sales results.
- Ability to ensure that customers benefit from the latest Microsoft cloud innovations and solutions.
- Preferred: MSFT professional certifications across Azure, Security, AI, M365
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Benefits
Our promise to our employees – Belong Grow and Thrive is our commitment to creating an environment that is inclusive to all, supports your professional and personal development and offers an environment where you can do life and work the way it works for you.
Here is how our benefits help you
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Equal Paid Parental Leave to all primary and secondary carers.
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Flexible and Focus Ways of Working that means structuring the way you work that works best for you and being the partner of choice for our customers, people and the planet.
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Diversity Equity and Inclusion Commitment which puts Inclusion as a strategic priority for Logicalis Australia – investment across Employee Resource groups, DEI Training and Mentoring that supports a workplace with a culture of accountability and zero tolerance for un-inclusive behaviours.
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Investment in your Leadership and career through our Grow program. Logicalis Australia is definitely a place where we see our people as the most valued Architects of Change. Our people have moved from Help-desk to Cloud-Engineering, from Sales to Management, from Operations to Senior Leadership. People here can have an idea, make a plan, and see it through. You can enjoy genuinely impacting change and controlling you own professional success.
About us
At Logicalis Australia, we're not just changing the game—we're driving the future of technology.
As the Architects of Change™, our mission is clear: to become the leading technology services provider and employer in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.
By combining our expertise and resources, we are positioning ourselves as a tech powerhouse, ready to capture growth opportunities across APAC and deliver exceptional service to our customers.
You'll be part of a dynamic team of 7,000+ innovators, collaborating across 30 territories with over 10,000 clients from diverse industries. Every project presents a unique opportunity to make a tangible impact, empowering businesses to thrive in today’s fast-paced tech landscape. With services that drive transformation and scalability—such as cloud, connectivity, collaboration, and security—you’ll help optimise operations and enable teams to reach new heights. As a global leader, our managed services provide real-time insights into clients’ digital ecosystems, 24/7.
Join us on this exciting journey, and let’s shape the future of technology together!
