Communication and Business writing - with communication at the top of the list combined with company and customer expertise. Working in the IT industry for +20 years, I look at solving challenges from a strategic perspective and using my cross-functional leadership. While nurturing and valuing relationships, I am skilled in negotiation and value-based selling. Throughout my career as a sales and marketing professional, I have always been passionate about building relationships and applying new concepts to continually improve myself, my company and my client’s experience to extend objectivity and insight through informed choices.During this time, I have had the opportunity of collaborating with brilliant individuals at major companies such as Microsoft, HP and many others with offices throughout the globe. Working with a diverse group of people requires me to have good communication skills and I've learnt to work individually, but also in a large team in many roles with my current role being fully remote and international.Having a good balance between big picture and detail-oriented thinking I am able to fill in the gaps in big picture thinking, and vice versa. Project management has become an integral part of my responsibilities, and as a Key Account Manager, together with driving the effective alignment of ICT with business needs and expectations based on high-value Microsoft®-centric advisory, implementation, and educational services.My areas of expertise:Communication, pre-sales, transactional business/tender writing, and technical proposal development: Determine key message/value propositions for responses, develop content for evaluation criteria, work with technical team to build a strong solution response. Creating initial project plans that include efforts and costing.Coordinating requirements; developing and negotiating contracts; integrating contract requirements with business operations. Analyse, proofread and edit proposals/tenders, legal contracts and other company documents/profiles using conversational, clear, concise, connected, and correct transactional business writing.Focussed on: Building customer relationships and trust to quickly understand business requirements and provide valuable input and strategy.B2B sales, account management, partnership and relationship building around Microsoft technologies to deliver Application Development, Data Analytics, DevOps, Cloud Platform and Cloud Solutions.