New Graduate roles at Microsoft Canada

Microsoft Canada (office locations include: Mississauga ON, Toronto ON, Ottawa ON; Vancouver BC; Calgary AB, Edmonton AB; Montreal QC, Quebec City QC)
 
Application process (please note the details below)
• Upon application you will be considered for all roles and locations you have correct work authorization and language fluency for. Please clearly state any location preferences on your CV/ Cover letter.
• Please also clearly state the month and year you will be graduating.
 
What is MACH?
 
MACH stands for the ‘Microsoft Academy for College Hires’. The MACH program is an accelerated career development program that aims to provide worldwide undergraduate and graduate employees in Microsoft with a smooth transition from academic to professional life. The Program is an 18-24 month comprehensive on-boarding and development program custom designed for our newest university hires. The MACH program enables you to start strong, build your networks and drive your long-term careers at Microsoft. We do this by offering you world-class training designed to set you up for success at Microsoft, a global community with thousands of current MACHs and MACH program alumni in over 60 countries and coaching from some of the brightest minds in the industry.
 
Who is eligible for the MACH program? 
 
• Have completed or is on-track to complete a Bachelor′s, Master′s or PHD Degree by the time of hire OR Have graduated from their full time degree program less than 12 months or 365 days prior to their Microsoft start date 
• Have less than 18 months combined corporate work experience
• Have not been employed at Microsoft for more than 12 months or 365 days before MACH consideration
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Who is eligible for the MACH MBA program?
 
• Have completed or on track to complete a fulltime MBA program by the time of hire. 
• Have accepted a Microsoft FTE position no more than 6 months following graduation from their MBA program
• Have no more than 7 years combined work experience prior to attaining their full time study MBA degree be considered for Microsoft industry positions.
 
MACH/MBA roles in Sales: Account Managers, Account Technology Strategist, Licensing Sales Professionals and Solution Sales Professionals, Business Development Manager.
 
Microsoft MACH/MBA roles in Sales and Business Development
Become the essential connection between our clients and the technologies that help them expand the size of their businesses and become more profitable. As a Sales professional at Microsoft, you will work closely with the sales teams which serve as the human face of our multi-billion-dollar global company. You will become a trusted counselor who inspires consumer enthusiasm and guides enterprise clients to make shrewd technology decisions that are in the best interests of their companies. 
 
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.
 
Account Technology Strategist
Microsoft needs world-class sales professionals to drive our consumer and enterprise growth as well as to build and maintain our partner ecosystem. As an ATS you will work with both business and technical decision makers in a pre-sales capacity. The ATS serves as a key player in a virtual team; responsible for enhancing the technical relationships with customer accounts. If you are passionate about interacting directly with our customers and being on the front lines to bring the magic of software to consumers and businesses, we will provide you with a dynamic tool kit to enable you to hone your sales craft to become trusted advisor and strategic contributor to our business.
 
Licensing Sales Professional
As a Licensing Sales Professional, you will provide licensing solutions to your customers with a focus on volume licensing programs. You will work closely with regional account executives, customer purchasing, and licensing contacts to provide licensing solutions for customers. Your role will include negotiating agreement terms and conditions, being the single point of contact for internal and external sales contracts and licensing issues, and developing pricing scenarios and cost/benefit analyses. Your licensing solutions will result in high customer satisfaction while maximizing customer revenue contribution across Microsoft product offerings.
 
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. 
 
Business Development Manager
As a Business Development Manager (BDM), you have the opportunity to help us achieve new levels of profit and growth by working to shape our future strategy and address critical business challenges. You will work hand-in-hand with senior leadership to identify, evaluate and execute upon strategic growth, partnership and acquisition opportunities. 
The BDM will develop and structure recommendations to complex business problems and opportunities of interest to senior leadership. You will need to build consensus and effectively influence a diverse set of stakeholders across product, engineering, finance and marketing. 
 
Minimum Qualifications:
• Pursuing or within twelve months for MACH and within six months of graduation from full-time MBA studies
• 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
• English language & local language fluency for all role 
• Full work authorization for your chosen location 
 
MACH/MBA roles in Marketing: Audience Marketing Manager, Channel/Partner Marketing Manager, Product Marketing Manager, Marketing Communications Manager
 
What makes Microsoft a great place for marketers? We have amazing products used by billions of people. We have an incredible diversity of businesses: from incumbent brands to challenger brands and from established markets to emerging markets, we have some of the strongest consumer and enterprise products and services in the world. With unparalleled depth and breadth of career opportunity and the ability to make a worldwide impact, you can design a career path that is hard to match anywhere. In addition, Microsoft regularly evaluates and evolves the marketing discipline to ensure that these roles are designed to increase Microsoft’s marketing impact and efficiency while helping our marketing professionals build expertise. 
 
Audience Marketing Manager
You bring an outside-in perspective on customers, the competition, and marketplace dynamics. As the customer advocate, you own the marketing strategy for a specific audience to ensure we are in lock step with their needs. In this role, we need broad thinkers who can collaboratively engage with customers and partners to identify and achieve mutually beneficial results. 
 
Channel/Partner Marketing Manager
You own the partner ecosystem and channel strategy. We need creative, analytical, and broad thinkers who collaboratively engage with partners to identify and achieve mutually beneficial results. As needed, you will incubate new partner models and deliver a partner gap analysis. You own the partner campaign, program activity delivery and sales pipeline support. 
 
Product Marketing Manager
You are the key to global marketing. You determine marketing strategy for your area and communicate through marketing plans, product content, and internal and external evangelism. 
 
Marketing Communications Manager
You always have the big picture in mind. You are adept at working with team members across business groups and agencies to deliver a global integrated marketing communication plan. 
 
Minimum qualifications
Qualifications:
• Pursuing or within twelve months for MACH and within six months of graduation from full-time MBA studies
• Inspired by the continually evolving craft of marketing 
• Proven aptitude for seeking creative solutions to multi-faceted problems
• Excellent communication and presentation skills 
• Thrive and deliver results in a fast paced, sometimes ambiguous environment 
• Ability to influence, inspire and lead from any role
• English language & local language fluency for all roles
• Full unrestricted work authorization for your chosen location 
MACH/MBA roles in Services: Enterprise Architect, Consultant, Technical Account Manager
 
Microsoft Services is a diverse team of technical experts who help our Clients transform their lives and businesses through technology. Our more than 20,000 people serve our customers in 191 countries in 46 different languages. Our Services Mission is to lead and serve our customers and partners as they realize their full potential through software and services.
 
No other company has the breadth and depth of products and services that Microsoft does and Microsoft Services is uniquely positioned to bring them all together. We strive to earn the confidence, trust, and loyalty of our customers by helping them get the most from their technology investments through planning, deployment, and support services.
 
We use our expertise across the broad Microsoft portfolio, this includes an extensive network of partners, our technical communities, tools, diagnostics and the channels that connect us with our customers— to serve the needs of millions around the globe. We are proud to bring decades of collective experience, knowledge, and expertise that can help any customer use our technology to do great things.
 
MACH/MBA Technical roles in Microsoft Services
 
Enterprise Architect: You help our Clients realize the full value of their current and future technology investments and to make sure those investments track directly to their business goals. You are leading our professional planning and strategy services that focus on just that—driving business results through the use of technology. The Microsoft Enterprise Strategy Program is a programmatic approach that includes orchestration, strategy and planning, architecture, and IT and business enablement services.
 
Consultant: Fast and effective deployment of our technologies shortens the time it takes our Clients to see value from their investments. As a Microsoft Services Consultant you work with our biggest Clients to help them deploy and adopt our technologies efficiently and cost-effectively, and thus help them grow their business. Your expertise on the Microsoft platform and collaboration with our global network of partners and technical communities help our Clients understand just what else is possible through innovation with Microsoft technologies and solutions.
 
Technical Account Manager: High systems availability and maximum performance come from well-planned, deployed and managed systems, services and support. Microsoft Enterprise Support services provides access to the professional services and technical expertise that large enterprises and key Partners need to minimize cost of operations, maximize value of the IT investment and reduce operational and support incidents. The Technical Account Manager manages the Premier services relationship and plays a pivotal role in ensuring that Microsoft is considered and viewed as a key technology partner in the successful operation of the customers IT environment and helps position Microsoft favorably when technology decisions are made by customers for future needs.
 
Minimum Qualifications: 
 
 Pursuing or within twelve months for MACH and within six months of graduation from full-time MBA studies
 Deep understanding of markets, customers and related technology
 Ability to influence, inspire and lead from any role
 Good understanding of the relationship between technology and business
 Passion for the technology and innovation
 Thriving in a fast paced, ambiguous environment 
 Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation
 English language & local language fluency for all roles 
 Full work authorization for your chosen location
 
Considering a Career with Microsoft Canada?
At Microsoft Canada, people are the source of our energy. The people at Microsoft Canada are creative, from all types of backgrounds, bringing passion and new ideas, meeting challenges, and realizing their potential. Our benefits and resources are designed to keep our most important asset - our employees - healthy, happy and equipped with the resources they need to be successful and realize their full potential. 
Microsoft Canada provides a flexible work environment, with career advancement potential and most importantly, the opportunity to make a difference. As a Microsoft employee you have the opportunity to participate in the following programs: 
Stock Awards & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Registered Retirement Savings Plan
Employee Software Purchase Program
Fitness Membership & Subsidy
I Volunteer (5 Paid Volunteer Days)
Employee Assistance Program
And so much more…
 
At Microsoft, we share a passion for technology, customers and our partners. We aspire to be more than just a good company- we aspire to be a great company. What will make us great is our commitment to our mission of enabling people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.
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By LinkedIn Published: Dec 29,2014
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