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EY’s Sales & Strategic Pursuits (S&SP) function unites sales leadership, sector insight, technology expertise, and solution depth to drive market-leading growth. As EY’s growth catalyst, S&SP shapes and executes integrated go-to-market strategies across priority accounts, industry sectors, and strategic alliances, delivering differentiated value through a deeply client‑centric culture.

As a Microsoft Alliance Sales Executive (MSFT SE), you will operate at the front edge of growth for EY’s largest and fastest-growing alliance. This is a true sales hunter role focused on originating net‑new opportunities, building pipeline, and closing sales through deep partnership with Microsoft and direct engagement with Consumer Products & Retail clients.

You will be a market-facing, quota‑carrying executive seller with deep expertise across Microsoft’s enterprise technology stack and a strong understanding of the Consumer Products & Retail marketplace. You will proactively create demand by identifying emerging client priorities, uncovering whitespace opportunities, and orchestrating transformative conversations that accelerate growth and business transformation.

You will leverage the combined strengths of EY and Microsoft to help clients address their most significant business challenges through AI, cloud, data, digital commerce, cybersecurity, customer experience, supply chain transformation, and enterprise modernization.

You will also be expected to embed AI‑driven thinking and tools into every aspect of your sales role, including how you prospect, identify patterns, prioritize opportunities, shape pursuits, influence buyers, and accelerate time-to-close, serving as a model for modern, AI‑enabled enterprise selling at EY.

• Relentlessly originate net‑new pipeline within the Consumer Products & Retail sectors by identifying unmet business needs, emerging priorities, and transformation opportunities.
• Drive revenue growth through three core channels:
• Direct client origination
• Co‑sell motions with MSFT.
• EY account team‑led pursuits
• Lead early-stage opportunity identification and qualification, independently shaping pursuits from initial signal detection through deal maturation.
• Build and maintain a robust sales pipeline with a focus on achieving and exceeding annual sales targets.

• Serve as a trusted partner to Microsoft Retail and Consumer Goods field teams, building EY’s credibility, visibility, and mindshare across account executives, specialists, industry leaders, and solution leadership.
• Evangelize EY’s Microsoft‑powered offerings across Cloud & AI Platforms, AI Business Solutions and Security
• Shape joint go-to-market strategies and influence Microsoft investment toward EY-led pursuits.
• Drive co‑sell alignment and executive‑level engagement between EY and Microsoft.

• Demonstrate deep understanding of Consumer Products & Retail operating models, commercial strategies, consumer trends, and competitive dynamics.
• Understand the key challenges facing the sector, including:
• Customer loyalty and personalization
• Supply chain modernization.
• Inventory optimization
• Demand forecasting
• Workforce productivity
• Translate Microsoft technologies and EY solutions outcomes that resonate with CP&R company executives including revenue growth, customer acquisition and retention, enhanced customer experiences, improved operational efficiency, supply chain resilience, cybersecurity, data modernization, and AI‑enabled business transformation.
• Build executive‑level relationships across merchandising, commerce, customer experience, operations, marketing, supply chain, finance, and technology functions.
• Establish EY as a trusted transformation partner for CP&R executives.

• Infuse AI into the full sales lifecycle, including:
• Account and opportunity analytics.
• Intelligent prospecting and prioritization
• Pattern recognition across pipeline and buying signals.
• AI‑supported storytelling, proposal shaping, and pursuit orchestration.
• Integrating and leveraging digital sales agents across the entire sales lifecycle
• Champion AI‑enabled EY and Microsoft solutions with credibility, demonstrating both technical fluency and business impact.
• Serve as a role model for modern, AI‑forward sales execution, helping elevate sales effectiveness across teams.

• Bring deep Consumer Products & Retail expertise and Microsoft technology knowledge to client conversations.
• Serve as the face of EY’s Microsoft Alliance within the Consumer Products & Retail market and the face of EY to Microsoft CP&R teams.
• Help envision and activate a multi-alliance ecosystem that positions EY as the orchestrator of technology, services, and strategic partnerships.
• Orchestrate cross-service-line and cross-functional teams to bring the best of EY to each pursuit opportunity.
• Influence account teams, alliance leaders, and pursuit teams through active market leadership and collaboration.
• Share market insights, industry trends, and leading practices that accelerate growth across the alliance.

• Hunter mindset with a strong bias for action, curiosity, and persistence
• Exceptional executive presence with the ability to influence senior EY executives, clients, and Microsoft stakeholders.
• Proven ability to navigate and succeed in a highly matrixed, alliance‑driven environment.
• Consultative selling style—trusted advisor, not transactional seller
• Strategic thinker with the ability to connect technology, policy, funding, and mission outcomes.
• Comfortable leveraging data and AI insights to guide decisions and storytelling.

• 10+ years of quota‑carrying sales experience in professional services, consulting, technology, or enterprise solutions
• Demonstrated success as a net-new business hunter and sales producer.
• Direct experience selling to Consumer Products and Retail clients.
• Deep understanding of CP&R business challenges and transformation priorities
• Experience partnering with Microsoft and participating in co-sell motions.
• Deep knowledge of Microsoft technologies, including:
• Data & Analytics
• Cybersecurity
• Power Platform
• Dynamics 365
• Modern Work
• Experience navigating complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles.
• Strong executive relationship management and communication skills
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent)

• Big Four consulting or global systems integrator experience
• Experience selling large-scale business and technology transformation programs.
• Prior consulting, delivery, or program leadership experience
• Deep understanding of retail and consumer industry ecosystems
• Proven team-selling and alliance-selling experience
• Experience integrating AI into business transformation initiatives.
• Coaching and mentoring capabilities
• Willingness to travel up to 50%.

Successful Alliance Sales Executives at EY are growth creators. They identify opportunities before others see them, shape demand, orchestrate complex pursuits, and build trusted executive relationships that drive transformative outcomes.

They combine commercial excellence, industry expertise, alliance leadership, and AI-enabled selling capabilities to help clients reimagine what is possible through technology. They are highly collaborative, digitally fluent, and passionate about helping Consumer Products & Retail organizations accelerate growth, strengthen customer relationships, and unlock the power of data, cloud, and AI.

At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learnmore .

• We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $221,410 to $280,070 plus participation in an incentive compensation program applicable to Sales Executives. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $265,650 to $318,290 plus participation in an incentive compensation program applicable to Sales Executives. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
• Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.
• Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

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